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Labor & Employment Associate Attorney (Orange County)

Sheppard Mullin
Costa Mesa, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/11/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/11/2025
Sheppard Mullin is a global Am Law 50 full-service law firm with over 1,000 attorneys across 16 offices worldwide. The Orange County office is seeking a highly qualified junior (2-4 year) associate to join their Labor & Employment Practice Group. With over 100 attorneys, our Orange County office focuses on a variety of areas including Labor & Employment, Business Litigation, Corporate Transactions, Real Estate, Finance, and more.

With more than 150 attorneys in the Labor & Employment group firmwide, Sheppard Mullin has one of the largest and most prestigious practices in the country. Our attorneys advise employers of all sizes—ranging from Fortune 100 companies to high tech and traditional business start-ups—in all aspects of employment advice and counseling, disputes and litigation, international employment and mobility, and union management relations. We have considerable expertise in all matters affecting the workplace including wage and hour, class and collective actions, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, employment agreements, layoffs, and ERISA. The strength and depth of our practice is rooted in our ability to provide truly full-service labor and employment law counseling.

Our team in Orange County continues to outperform and as a result continues to grow. We are currently recruiting for an outstanding associate with 2-4 years of employment litigation experience, including class and single plaintiff actions involving claims of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and other areas of California labor & employment law. Our L&E practice group prides itself on employing attorneys who can take ownership of matters, with experience in all stages of litigation.

The Ideal Candidate Should Excel In The Following Areas

  • Strong litigation experience
  • Conducting complex fact investigations and analysis
  • Preparing deposition outlines
  • Researching, writing, and arguing motions
  • Participation of trial teams
  • Self-starter who requires minimal oversight

Resume, cover letter, and law school transcript are required to apply. We will not consider remote candidates at this time. Applicants must be admitted to the California Bar.

The annual salary range for this position is $235,000 to $310,000.

For questions regarding this position, please contact Thomas Meena at TMeena@sheppardmullin.com.

Salary : $235,000 - $310,000

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