Career Center

At Nixon Peabody, our priority is to attract, retain, and promote talented individuals from a wide range of racial, ethnic, social, economic, religious, and personal backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations. Therefore, we encourage talented individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply.

Nixon Peabody's Real Estate attorneys help clients structure, negotiate and close complicated real estate transactions with future-focused, business-grounded advice and practice solutions. Our team helps clients maximize and manage their institutional real estate properties and transform development and land use challenges into success stories. 

A career at Nixon Peabody is the opportunity to do work that matters. It's a chance to use your knowledge to shape what's ahead, to innovate, to learn at a firm that taps into the power of collaboration and collective thinking. 

Our Affordable Housing & Real Estate Group is seeking to hire an attorney with at least five years of experience to join our Rochester office. This position can be on partnership track, or off-track. We are flexible for the right candidate. 

Qualified candidates will have experience working on sophisticated real estate transactions and development projects representing buyers, sellers, and developers of commercial, institutional, retail and industrial properties, as well as landlords and tenants. The ideal candidate will have experience focusing on one or more of the following areas: real estate acquisitions, dispositions and financing transactions, commerical leasing, real estate development, zoning and land use. 

Stellar academic credentials, superb judgement and communication skills, a commitment to excellence and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment will also be attributes of a strong candidate for this role. 

Nixon Peabody LLP is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.
Disability / Female / Gender Identity / Minority / Sexual Orientation / Veteran. 

To comply with Federal law, Nixon Peabody participates in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are verified through this electronic system established by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) to confirm their identity and employment eligibility. Please refer to the Notice of E-Verify Participation and the Right to Work posters on the Nixon Peabody Careers page for more information.

All applicants for employment with NP, unless they receive an approved exemption as an accommodation for a medical issue or sincerely held religious belief, must be “Up to Date” with respect to their COVID-19 vaccinations by their hire date. “Up to Date” currently means that the applicant has completed the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech primary vaccine series, plus a booster vaccine, if eligible, or the Johnson & Johnson Janssen one dose primary vaccine, plus a booster vaccine, if eligible.