What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Litigation Attorney position at Becker?
The ideal candidate will have two - four years' experience displaying excellent attention to detail, reviewing documents, preparing memoranda, trial preparation and attendance. Must share the firm’s commitment to its clients by being prompt, responsive and knowledgeable. Excellent academic credentials with superior research and writing skills required. Member of the Pennsylvania Bar required.
Responsibilities include:
- Document review
- Legal Research
- Preparation and drafting of pleadings, discovery, motions and memoranda of law
- Client relations and communications
- Deposition, hearing, mediation, and trial preparation and attendance
Experience in:
- Business Litigation experience required
- Significant review of documents via electronic review platform
- Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, document management system- iManage preferred
Equal Employment Opportunity
Becker is committed to diversity in the workplace. Workplace diversity refers to the protection, respect and inclusion of all of the attributes that each employee contributes to the workplace. We strive for a workplace that welcomes and respects all employees regardless of any protected class status, including, but not limited to, race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, age, ancestry, and disability. We also acknowledge the other ways in which people are different, such as educational level, life experience, work experience, socio-economic background, and personality and recognize the value of these individual differences.
We are wholly committed to creating hiring practices and a work environment that values and utilizes the contributions of people
with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
As such, it is the policy of Becker to recruit, employ, train, develop, and promote employees on the basis of individual qualifications, competence, and merit. We believe that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and do not discriminate on any basis prohibited by applicable law. It is our goal to fully comply with the letter of the law, as well as its spirit and intent.