Construction Attorney

Construction Litigation Associate (Mid Level or Senior) | Charleston, SC (Hybrid) | $150,000 to $240,000 | Construction Disputes

Construction disputes are rarely about one bad day on site. They’re about the schedule update nobody pushed back on, the RFI answered three weeks late, and the change order signed with a reservation nobody read.

Construction litigators are hired to rebuild that paper trail into a story a judge, jury or arbitrator can follow. If you want to do that where construction is the main event, read on.

I’m Clark Pollins at Distinct Recruitment, and I’m hiring a construction litigation associate for a regional firm’s Charleston office. Construction is this firm’s lead practice, and the team is adding associates because the work keeps coming.

What you’d work on

• Delay, defect, scope, payment and design disputes
• Clients including general contractors, owners, developers, designers, large specialty contractors and insurance carriers
• Projects such as hospitals, sports arenas, data centers, power generation, infrastructure, and water and wastewater
• Government contract disputes, alongside state and federal court and arbitration
• Taking depositions, arguing your own motions, and shaping expert strategy, not just scheduling the experts
• The client call, taken by you

Who I’m looking for

• 2 years of litigation experience
• South Carolina admission, or the ability to waive in or sit for the next bar
• Construction not in your title yet? Insurance defense with construction files, commercial, products liability, surety, design professional or government contracts litigation all count.
• Comfort with schedules, pay applications, change orders and spec books
• The ability to turn a 400 page spec book into three sentences a juror will remember

Compensation

• $150,000 to $320,000
• The range is wide because the firm is hiring at two levels. Mid level associates sit toward the lower end. Senior associates ready to run a case from intake to trial sit toward the top.
• No Billable requirement

Working pattern

• Hybrid, based in Charleston, and you choose the split
• Based in Mount Pleasant, Summerville, Daniel Island or anywhere in the Lowcountry? Weighing a move from Columbia, Greenville, Myrtle Beach, Savannah or Charlotte? I’d like to hear from you.

Why this one stands out

• Construction is the lead practice, built over three decades
• A trial firm, with hundreds of matters tried or arbitrated
• Clients include ENR Top 400 general contractors
• Work in more than 20 states, so your Charleston files can reach well beyond the Lowcountry

Our first call is confidential, with no pressure, just a conversation about the role and your career goals. There are two rounds of interviews with the firm, with constructive feedback after each stage. If this one isn’t quite right, I’m working on other litigation roles across the Carolinas too.

Questions before you apply, or want to talk it over first? Call me, Clark Pollins at Distinct Recruitment, on 252 516 4403, or find me on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/clark-pollins-039488299.