Practice Development Specialist

Greenberg Traurig (GT), a global law firm with locations across the world in 15 countries, has an exciting employment opportunity for you. We offer competitive compensation and an excellent benefits package, along with the opportunity to work within an innovative and collaborative environment.

Join our Marketing Team as a Practice Development Specialist located in either our Austin, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, or Phoenix office.

We are seeking a highly skilled, proactive professional who thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. The ideal candidate brings strong judgment, problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a client-service mindset. This role requires excellent communication skills, sound decision-making, and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams while anticipating needs, managing priorities, and delivering high-quality work.

This role will be based in either our Austin, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami or Phoenix office and regular in-office presence is required for day-to-day operations, as well as for team meetings, training opportunities, and relationship building. This role reports to the Senior Practice Development Manager.

Position Summary:

The Practice Development Specialist will work directly with members of the Real Estate marketing team and contribute to a broad range of practice-specific business development and marketing initiatives as part of the firm’s global marketing and business development team.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborates with the Real Estate marketing team, practice leadership, attorneys, and marketing colleagues to develop and execute strategic marketing and business development initiatives for the Global Real Estate Department Supports business development plans aligned with department growth objectives, client priorities, market opportunities, and cross-selling initiatives across offices and practices

Monitors real estate industry trends, market developments, client sectors, and competitor activity to identify opportunities for attorney engagement, thought leadership, and client development

Develops, updates, and manages marketing resources and practice materials, including practice descriptions, representative matters, experience databases, deal lists, and client-targeting resources

Coordinates and contributes to proposals, pitches, RFPs, capability statements, presentations, and other client-facing materials that highlight the firm’s real estate experience and differentiators

Supports attorneys in identifying and pursuing new business opportunities and relationship-expansion efforts with clients, prospects, and referral sources

Tracks and organizes significant transactions, client successes, rankings submissions, awards opportunities, and related experience for use in marketing and business development initiatives

Coordinates practice group meetings and department calls, prepare agendas, capture action items, and monitor progress on strategic initiatives

Drafts, edits, and distributes marketing communications, including client alerts, newsletters, legal updates, speaking engagement materials, award submissions, and other promotional content

Assists with planning and executing client events, conferences, sponsor ships, charitable initiatives, and related collateral in collaboration with events, creative services, digital marketing, communications, research, and business development teams

Supports strategic and ad hoc marketing and business development projects as needed

Qualifications:

Skills & Competencies Strong client-service orientation and ability to build trusted relationships with attorneys, colleagues, and internal stakeholders

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong editing, proofreading,…