Years of Experience
Attorneys with with 2 - 5 years of commercial litigation experience.
Academic Requirements
Outstanding achievement, including excellent law school record, references, demonstrated leadership, litigation and writing skills.
Admission to CA Bar
Preferred but not required initially.
Type of Experience
Litigation experience including in intellectual property, securities, privacy, class actions, business torts, contract disputes, attorney malpractice, internal investigations, white collar criminal, environmental, health care, high technology, media and entertainment, and products liability. Candidates ideally will have strong writing skills, be entrepreneurial about developing their practice, and have experience with the nuts and bolts of pre-trial work, investigations, and/or trials. Litigation experience can be at a law firm, government agency or non-profit. Over 85% of our client's litigators served as a clerk to a federal or state judge so experience as a judicial clerk is encouraged, but not a prerequisite for the right candidate with other proven litigation experience.
Type of Work
Depends on experience and matter; they handle their clients’ biggest, most cutting edge problems as well as their most significant litigations. Our client's litigators are both generalists and develop various areas of expertise, whether that be in an industry and/or a specific practice area. They look for excellent candidates who will be writing briefs, leading investigations, managing discovery, preparing witnesses for trial, taking depositions, formulating strategy for cases, arguing motions, and managing day to day litigation tasks.
Degree of Client Contact
As much as appropriate: depends on experience and client skills – no preconceived limitation.
Travel
Some of our work is outside of California and may require travel for trial, hearings and depositions.
Billable Hours
Our client has no formal billable hour requirement. But their lawyers work hard. Commitment to the firm, clients and matters is what counts.
Practice Area Summary
Our client is a firm of approximately 200 lawyers that maintains a nationally recognized practice representing clients in a broad range of complex and high-profile commercial litigation matters across a wide range of subject areas and industries. They handle matters in all stages of litigation, from pre-complaint assessment to and through trial; their clients call on them to lead their most sensitive investigations; and they regularly advise their clients with respect to their most significant litigation avoidance strategies or internal legal problems.
Benefits of Joining Our Client
Among the best complex business litigation in the country; prominent and committed clients; great people to work with; an open and progressive firm environment; terrific profit per partner and associate compensation and benefits history.
Salary Scale
2024 Annual Salaries
Law School Class Year Salary
2024 $225,000
2023 $225,000
2022 $235,000
2021 $260,000
2020 $310,000
2019 $365,000
2018 $390,000
2017 $420,000
2016 and earlier $435,000
