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Associate Attorney – Consumer Class Action and Mass Arbitration

The Associate Attorney Role. We’re seeking an attorney with 2-4 years of litigation experience to join our growing team. (Exceptional candidates outside this range will be considered.) You’ll work directly with the managing attorney to develop and run class action and mass arbitration cases. You will touch every part of our litigation cycle, from case generation through briefing, discovery, depositions, attending hearings, arguing motions, and trial preparation. Over time, you’ll be expected to independently manage your own docket of cases.

The salary is between $140,000 and $170,000, commensurate with experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.

Primary Responsibilities

• Conduct legal and factual research to support litigation and new case development.
• Draft everything needed in and around litigation.
• Assist with and lead discovery strategy.
• Argue motions before judges and arbitrators.
• Communicate regularly with a large number of clients. Draft internal memoranda summarizing research findings.
• Take and defend depositions.
• Prepare witnesses and clients for depositions and hearings.
• Confer with adversaries.
• Supervise paralegals or law clerks as cases grow.
• Coordinate with third parties, including co-counsel, experts, and service providers.
• Travel to and participate in conferences, mediations, and hearings, as needed.
  

Qualifications and Qualities.  

• Bar admission in New York is required; California is strongly preferred. Admission in any additional state is a plus.
• High executive function.
• The drive to find, make, and win cases.
• Both excellent legal writing and stylishnonlegal writing.
• Experience as a judicial law clerk is a plus, asis pre-law professional experience.
  

How to Apply. Please email hiring [at] Janove [dot] law, attaching (1) a cover letter, (2) your resume, (3) your law school transcript (unofficial is fine), and (4) a writing sample of no more than five pages. Please attach each document as a separate PDF, titling each document with a prefix of your last name and an underscore.

Janove PLLC is an equal opportunity employer. We do notdiscriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.