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    "description": "<h2>Overview</h2>\n<p>Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Commercial department in our New York, or Washington, D.C. office, as a Senior Specialist: Business Development and Marketing.</p>\n<p>The Senior Specialist: Business Development and Marketing will play a central role in shaping and executing business development initiatives across some of the firm's most dynamic practice areas, including Intellectual Property, Trade Secret Litigation, and High Tech Litigation. 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