Manager of Communications

Responsibilities

The Business Development team is seeking a highly organized professional with a client-service mindset and a collaborative, positive approach. This individual is responsible for managing firm-wide strategic communications and media relations to advance regional visibility and generate growth opportunities.

• Create and develop written strategic communication plans, including social media, to support the announcement of new attorneys, launch of new products/services, and major initiatives.
• Internal and external communications.
• Create and develop strategic PR plans for their practice and related practice groups/industry teams.
• Provide status updates and reports on PR efforts to stakeholders.
• Achieve effectiveness of communications by utilizing analytics and metrics and report findings to the stakeholders.
• Proactively review of editorial calendars and regular outreach to editorial staff to discern upcoming opportunities.
• Train and prepare support for attorney media opportunities or when serving as a firm spokesperson.
• Manage content curation platforms and recognition outlets, such as Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers; manage process to proactively identify and fulfill attorney recognition opportunities.
• Research and keep abreast of relevant marketing and industry trends to enhance relationships with traditional and social media in each market and relevant trade media.
• Serve as a consultant for client situations that are controversial or a crisis.
• This includes serving as the media relations interface as appropriate – or, serving as liaison to outside resources.
• Aid in other duties as needed.

Requirements

The Manager Of Communications Will Thrive in this role if you have:

• A bachelor’s degree in marketing or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in a managerial role in a law firm or other professional services organization.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and efficiently respond to timely requests and concerns.
• Sound judgment, accountability, and initiative, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to think strategically and identify synergies.

Qualifications

Demonstrate strong client service and active listening skills.

Show consistent logic, rationale, and objectivity in decision making.

Believe in the firm’s core values: collaboration, inclusion, ingenuity, respect, integrity, and commitment.

Enjoy working with diverse personalities within various levels of the firm.

Be comfortable working in the office on a hybrid schedule and attending events.

Skills

The Manager Of Communications Will Thrive in this role if you have:

• Effective multi-tasking and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to provide solutions in a fast-paced office setting.

Benefits

Harris Beach Murtha Recognizes Everyone Has a Right To Be Included. You Will Be Successful In Your Career At The Firm If You Exhibit the ability to effectively multi-task, meet deadlines, and provide solutions in a fast-paced office setting.

Pay

Salary information will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position, geographic locations and weekly hours schedule. The anticipated weekly schedule for the Manager of Communications is 40 hours per week.

Schedule

The anticipated weekly schedule for the Manager of Communications is 40 hours per week.

About the Role

Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal. Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, but a global reach. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals. The firm’s practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates. The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey. The firm’s policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination. It is the policy of Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment. Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual’s race or color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status is strictly prohibited. Harris Beach Murtha complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.