Description:
Job Description:Position Summary:
Our Washington D.C. office has an opportunity for a mid-level litigation associate to join the firm's nationally recognized practice representing premier local and national employers in litigation matters involving restrictive covenants and trade secrets. This is an excellent opportunity for associates with an ownership mentality to assume a leading role in providing superior legal services to sophisticated employers in all aspects of labor and employment law. This role requires extensive contact with clients, governmental agencies and opposing counsel and experience with business or commercial litigation is preferred.
Duties include, but are not limited to, performing legal research, drafting of legal memoranda, motions, and pleadings, attending court conferences, handling discovery-related activities (including e-discovery and depositions) and investigations, drafting of position statements and dispositive motions, drafting settlement agreements and other employment-related agreements (e.g., employment agreements, arbitration agreements, restrictive covenant agreements) and counseling clients on employment-law-related matters.
The right candidate will have a passion for client service, a desire to practice in company-side employment law, strong writing/drafting skills, strong analytical and communication skills, superior organizational and time management skills and an ability to relate to and inspire confidence with savvy business clients. This is a great opportunity for the right lawyer to join a top national employment law practice in a tight-knit and team-oriented environment.
Our office is collegial with a commitment to mutual respect in the workplace. We hold regular all-attorney in-person conferences throughout the country. We make attorney development a priority and provide ongoing writing, publishing, and speaking opportunities as well as access to expansive professional development training programs and opportunities to work with and be mentored by the leading attorneys in this field.
We are fully committed to the importance of diversity within the legal profession, as well as all workplace environments and strongly encourage the interest of diverse candidates in the firm.
Requirements:
- Juris Doctor. Qualified candidates must be and remain licensed to practice law and in good standing in both DC and Virginia. During employment, must meet requirements for continuing licensure for law practice.
- Candidates must possess 4+ years of employment law experience. Substantive knowledge of employment law and significant litigation and/or advice and counsel experience from a law firm or in-house environment is preferred.
- We expect this attorney to provide excellent written and analytical work and to contribute to a supportive and cohesive team of talented litigators and counselors.
- This attorney should be highly organized, self-aware, eager to learn, have strong interpersonal skills, and be comfortable in dealing directly with clients.
- Outstanding academic record preferred (Top 25% of law school class).
- Please note, we are not working with outside recruiters for this position.
