Training Specialist

Location: Rochester, NY

Do you have training experience? Are you excited about the opportunity to join an innovative, growing law firm that has been successful for more than 165 years?

Harris Beach Murtha’s Rochester office is seeking a Training Specialist to join our Professional Development team! You will THRIVE in this role if you have:

• 5 years of related work experience (required)
• A bachelor’s degree (preferred)
• Law firm experience (preferred)
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Knowledge of eLearning software and on-line training tools
• A foundation in adult education
• Knowledge of desktop productivity software, including PDF, document management software, template, and numbering tools
• Excellent multitasking and time management abilities

The Training Specialist is responsible for coordinating, implementing, and monitoring all aspects of the end-user training for the firm. Do you have the DRIVE and DESIRE to:

• Serve as the training subject matter expert for programs supported by the firm (including both technical and non-technical instruction)
• Deliver training to skill sets ranging from beginner to experienced. This includes new hire training, ongoing skill building education, and training to support firm projects
• Conduct live training sessions on-site or remote, using a variety of instructional techniques or formats such as role playing, team exercises, group discussions, videos, or lectures
• Manage the in-person or remote training session environment, including motivating participants, maintaining focus and adapting training style to meet the needs of participants
• Assist in the creation of materials such as reference guidelines, visual aids, online learning modules, and course handouts
• Monitor training activities through surveys, interviews with employees, focus groups, or consultation with managers and report on program effectiveness and recommend training programs accordingly
• Understand and stay current with technology, firm processes and procedures, and training best practices

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
• Believe in the firm’s core values: integrity, respect, accountability, ingenuity, teamwork, and inclusion and engagement
• Enjoy working with diverse personalities within various levels of the firm

Harris Beach Murtha is not accepting candidate submissions from recruiting agencies for this position during the first two weeks after posting. Following this period, agencies with an active fee agreement with the firm may reach out to our internal recruitment team at resumes@harrisbeachmurtha.com to inquire about potential collaboration for this position.
Salary information below will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position, geographic locations and weekly hours schedule. The anticipated weekly schedule for the Training Specialist in Rochester is 40 hours per week.

Harris Beach Murtha is committed to an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from diverse candidates with varied background and skills, including military experience. Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About Harris Beach Murtha:
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.