Description:
Overview:Join our legal team as a Domestic Relations Associate Attorney and guide clients through family law matters with clear advice, thoughtful advocacy, and steady communication. You'll manage cases from initial research and client discussions through negotiation, motion practice, and trial preparation. Your impact: By pairing practical legal counsel with responsive client communication, you help individuals make informed decisions during important family transitions.
Responsibilities:
- Represent clients in domestic relations and family law matters; prepare pleadings, legal motions, and court filings.
- Conduct legal and statutory research using LexisNexis and Westlaw; apply procedural law knowledge to case strategy.
- Draft contracts and other legal documents, prepare for court depositions, and support trial preparation and litigation.
- Lead legal negotiation, communicate case developments, and maintain organized legal case management records.
- Provide legal advocacy while coordinating relevant legal administrative work.
- Participate in or handle court proceedings (depending on experience).
Experience:
- Required: Law office experience, strong legal writing and drafting skills, research ability, and experience communicating with clients.
- Preferred: Family law practice, litigation, general and commercial litigation, employment law case experience, personal injury case experience, personal injury law, and legal motion preparation.
- Additional listed practice areas and knowledge—estate planning, environmental law, immigration law, landlord-tenant law, securities law, workers' compensation law, tribal law and regulations, patent law, and employment law—may be relevant to the broader practice.
- Familiarity with legal negotiation, court depositions, contract drafting, and legal research is valued.
