Description:
About the Position:Powers & Worshtil, P.C. is seeking a Maryland-barred attorney to join our growing civil-litigation practice.
This position is ideal for an attorney who wants substantive responsibility, direct client contact, courtroom experience, and close mentoring from experienced litigators. The associate will work directly with the firm's partners and assume increasing responsibility for managing cases as the attorney's skills and judgment develop.
Our annual billable expectation is 1,680 hours (140 hours per month). Associates are also eligible for performance-based and origination bonuses.
Prior estates-and-trusts experience is welcome but not required. We are prepared to train a strong civil litigator, judicial clerk, or government attorney who wants to develop expertise in this specialized and growing area of law.
Why Join Powers & Worshtil
This position offers:
- A reasonable and clearly defined 1,680-hour annual billable expectation
- Base compensation of $90,000–$120,000
- Performance-based bonus opportunities
- Origination bonuses for matters personally brought to the firm
- Meaningful responsibility for substantive legal work
- Direct client contact and courtroom experience
- Regular collaboration with and mentoring from the firm's partners
- Experienced paralegal and administrative support
- The opportunity to develop expertise in estates-and-trusts litigation
- Room for increased responsibility, compensation, and professional advancement as the firm grows
Powers & Worshtil is a boutique Maryland law firm focused on estates, trusts, and related litigation. Our matters include:
- Will contests and contested probate proceedings
- Trust disputes
- Breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims
- Removal proceedings involving personal representatives, trustees, guardians, and other fiduciaries
- Undue-influence and incapacity claims
- Contested estate and trust accountings
- Guardianship proceedings
- Partition, title, ownership, boundary, and other real-property disputes
- Related civil-litigation matters
Responsibilities:
Depending on experience, the associate will:
- Draft complaints, answers, substantive motions, discovery, memoranda, and other court filings
- Conduct legal research and prepare written legal analysis
- Manage discovery and document production
- Prepare for and participate in depositions
- Prepare clients and witnesses for hearings, depositions, mediations, and trial
- Appear in Maryland courts
- Participate in hearings, mediations, settlement conferences, and trials
- Communicate directly with clients, opposing counsel, experts, and court personnel
- Develop case strategy in collaboration with the firm's partners
- Work closely with paralegals and other members of the litigation team
- Assume increasing responsibility for managing matters from intake through resolution
- Maintain accurate billing entries, deadlines, and case-management records
Qualifications:
Required:
- Active membership in good standing with the Maryland Bar
- Strong legal research and writing skills
- Sound professional judgment
- Excellent organizational and time-management abilities
- Strong interpersonal and client-communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple matters and deadlines
- Professionalism, reliability, and attention to detail
- A genuine interest in developing as a civil litigator
Preferred but not required:
- Approximately one to four years of civil-litigation experience
- Judicial clerkship or relevant government experience
- Experience drafting substantive motions and handling discovery
- Courtroom, deposition, mediation, or trial experience
- Admission to the District of Columbia Bar
- Experience involving estates, trusts, probate, guardianships, fiduciary disputes, or real property
