Description:
Role Description | We seek a highly motivated Associate Attorney with at least one year of experience to join our team. The role focuses on our traditional labor law practice. This position offers an exciting opportunity for significant case-handling responsibilities and direct client interaction, allowing you to step into courtrooms and administrative hearings to advocate for unions and workers.Responsibilities:
- Represent unions in grievance arbitration hearings and before various administrative agencies, such as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), in the context of new organizing and unfair labor practice charges.
- Provide strategic, general and legal advice to the firm's diverse union clients, including union representatives and officers.
- Handle all stages of litigation, with an emphasis on wage and hour class actions, as well as harassment and discrimination litigation.
- Represent the firm's employee benefit plan clients as needed.
- Empower workers on the ground by giving comprehensive union staff and steward trainings.
Qualifications:
- 1+ years of relevant litigation experience.
- Demonstrated commitment and fierce dedication to the labor movement and justice for working people.
- Strong communication skills.
- Exemplary research, writing, analytical and oral advocacy skills.
- Detail-oriented, organized and possesses strong time management skills.
- A motivated self-starter with superb judgment and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Admission to the California bar and in good standing is required.
- Preferred (Not Required): Judicial clerkship experience, labor law coursework, real estate experience, or Spanish language skills are highly desirable.
Work Environment | Please note that this position may require occasional evening or weekend work depending on client events or needs. WRR believes in striving for work-life balance for our advocates and supports a hybrid working environment with about 3 days in the office or field and 2 days remote.
