Description:

Description:
Discovery Attorney — Family Law
Most family law jobs hand you a caseload and hope you can carry it. This one is different.

We're hiring a Discovery Attorney to own the discovery workstream on our most complex matters. Business valuations. Self-employed income. Separate property claims. Cases where the money is hiding, and somebody has to go find it.

You won't carry a full caseload. You won't do consults. You won't be asked to bring in business.

What you'll own

Rule 49 disclosure strategy and execution on assigned matters
Subpoenas, records collection, and financial tracing
Written discovery, from drafting through motions to compel
Deposition preparation and outlines
Working directly with forensic accountants and business valuators
Your own billable time, at your own rate, on your own matters

Responsibilities:
Written discovery

Draft, serve, and track uniform and non-uniform interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admission
Manage response deadlines and extensions across all assigned matters
Draft responses and objections to incoming discovery, and coordinate client document collection
Maintain a running privilege log where one is needed

Third-party records and subpoenas

Identify which records matter and where they live: banks, brokerages, employers, payroll, retirement plans, credit applications, business filings, title companies
Draft, serve, and track subpoenas through to production
Chase custodians who don't respond, and escalate when they still don't
Organize and index what comes back so it's usable, not just collected

Financial analysis and asset tracing

Reconstruct income for self-employed and business-owner parties
Trace separate property claims through account histories and transaction records
Build source-and-application-of-funds analyses on commingling issues
Flag lifestyle and income discrepancies for the responsible attorney
Identify undisclosed accounts, entities, and transfers

Expert coordination

Scope and manage forensic accountants, business valuators, and vocational evaluators
Assemble and transmit the expert's document package
Track expert deadlines and disclosure requirements
Prepare summaries of expert findings for the responsible attorney and the client

Depositions

Build deposition outlines from the record
Assemble and pre-mark exhibits
Prepare document summaries and chronologies for the taking attorney
Take depositions on discovery issues where appropriate

Motion practice

Draft motions to compel, motions for sanctions, and protective order responses
Handle meet-and-confer correspondence
Appear at discovery hearings

Case management and handoff

Maintain the discovery status of every assigned matter so the responsible attorney always knows where things stand
Prepare a discovery summary and issue list at the close of discovery, ready for settlement or trial prep
Flag matters early when the discovery picture changes the case strategy

Practice building

Record your time daily and hit a 1,400-hour annual billable target
Build the templates, checklists, and workflows that make this repeatable
Help define which matters need discovery support and at what depth
Help train and mentor the next hires into this group

Qualifications:
Required:

Licensed to practice in Arizona
Three or more years practicing family law, or five or more years in civil litigation with significant discovery experience
You can read a tax return, a K-1, a P&L, and a year of bank statements and tell us what's wrong with them
Demonstrated experience running written discovery and third-party subpoenas from start to finish
Strong writing. Your motions should be short, clear, and hard to argue with
Organized enough to run fifteen open discovery tracks at once without losing a deadline
Comfortable with legal technology. We run Clio, and we use AI tools daily, and we expect you to use them well

Strongly preferred:

Experience with business valuation, self-employed income analysis, or separate property tracing
You've worked with forensic accountants and know how to scope them
You've taken depositions, even a handful
Experience in Maricopa, Pinal, or Pima County family court
Spanish fluency

Temperament, which matters more than any of the above

You are the kind of person who reads the whole bank statement
You do not accept "we've produced everything responsive" at face value
You will send the fourth follow-up letter to a records custodian without being asked
You would rather find the answer than argue about it
You're comfortable being the person who knows the file better than anyone else in the room, including opposing counsel

What we are not requiring

A book of business. You will never be asked to bring in a client.
A trial record. Trial work is available if you want it, and optional if you don't.
Prior experience with this exact title. Almost nobody has it. If you've been doing this work in the margins of a full caseload, that's the experience we're looking for.
Successful completion of accredited law school with Juris Doctorate (J.D.) degree with 2 years of related experience
Well-versed in legal research software (Westlaw/Lexis)
Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite is necessary
Communication, problem-solving, decision-making, interpersonal, and public speaking skills required
Able to work independently while handling multiple files

Compensation:
$140,000+