What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Attorney position at Zazueta Law, PLLC?
Job Description
Job Description
About Zazueta Law, PLLC
Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Zazueta Law, PLLC is an established, trial-focused boutique firm dedicated to delivering thoughtful, practical, and highly strategic solutions to complex legal problems. We represent a diverse client base across multiple high-stakes practice areas, focusing on business disputes, personal injury, real estate, and contract litigation. Known for our courtroom experience, we take pride in advocating fiercely for our clients from initial filings through final trial verdicts.
Why Join Us?
Zazueta Law, PLLC is a Phoenix-based law firm focused on business disputes, personal injury, real estate, and contract disputes. The firm is dedicated to offering thoughtful and practical solutions to complex legal problems for a diverse client base.
Job Description
About Zazueta Law, PLLC
Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Zazueta Law, PLLC is an established, trial-focused boutique firm dedicated to delivering thoughtful, practical, and highly strategic solutions to complex legal problems. We represent a diverse client base across multiple high-stakes practice areas, focusing on business disputes, personal injury, real estate, and contract litigation. Known for our courtroom experience, we take pride in advocating fiercely for our clients from initial filings through final trial verdicts.
Why Join Us?
- Direct Courtroom & Trial Track: We do not relegate junior talent to a back office. You will immediately gain hands-on litigation experience—drafting core motions, attending hearings, conducting depositions, presenting oral arguments, and sitting second-chair at trials alongside our experienced managing attorney.
- Broad Legal Portfolio: Broaden your horizons and build an exceptional foundational skill set by working fluidly across business, injury, and real estate litigation rather than getting pigeonholed into a single narrow niche.
- Dedicated Mentorship: Work directly with senior firm leadership to accelerate your professional development, master advanced courtroom strategy, and learn the business of running a successful law practice.
- Litigate & Advocate: Manage case files proactively, crafting solutions for diverse disputes involving business entities, personal injury claims, real estate transactions, and contractual disagreements.
- Engage in Court: Represent clients confidently at dynamic hearings, depositions, and oral arguments, and serve as an active co-counsel at trial.
- Strategize & Counsel: Perform deep legal research to draft sharp, persuasive briefs, pleadings, motions, and comprehensive client advice letters.
- Partner with Clients: Maintain open communication with a diverse client base, translating complex legal realities into clear, reassuring guidance.
- Experience: 0 to 4 years of civil litigation experience. We welcome highly driven recent graduates possessing an active interest in business/real estate law, as well as developing litigators looking to elevate their trial skills.
- Credentials: Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with the State Bar of Arizona.
- Skills: Excellent legal writing and verbal communication skills, with an innate ability to manage multiple matters and tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Base Salary: $100,000 – $125,000 annually (commensurate with experience)
- Bonuses: Discretionary performance-based bonus structure
- Health & Wellness: Complete medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, and Lifetime gym membership
- Dry Cleaning . Monthly dry cleaning paid by the Firm.
- Work-Life Balance: Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) policy
- Future Security: Robust retirement benefits program.
- Work Environment: Full-time, collaborative in-office role in Phoenix, AZ
Zazueta Law, PLLC is a Phoenix-based law firm focused on business disputes, personal injury, real estate, and contract disputes. The firm is dedicated to offering thoughtful and practical solutions to complex legal problems for a diverse client base.
Salary : $100,000 - $125,000