Job description

Job description

We are looking for an experienced senior attorney to help our clients achieve favorable outcomes with legal matters. You will advocate for clients, advise them on the best course of action, and implement their legal support plan. You should have previous trial experience, be able to manage a heavy caseload, and use your general counsel experience and interpersonal skills to mentor our lower-level associates to ensure a continued legacy of prosperity. Required to be a South Carolina LICENSED attorney with five years or more of practice experience working in a law firm. Personal Injury experience preferred.

Senior Attorney Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage consultants, attorneys and interns on staff.
• Analyze complex legal factual issues while conducting extensive and well-reasoned legal research
• Independently develop and aggressively present defense strategies on behalf of clients for personal injury and worker's compensation cases from inception through trial
• Prepare pleadings, written discovery, motions, and briefs in support of defense strategies
• Provide effective and timely information, legal advice, and other services.

Senior Attorneys have to complete extensive case-related research into relevant laws and regulations, negotiate on behalf of clients, draft and interpret contracts and legal documents, and oversee compliance to these documents.

Maintain Client Relationships

Throughout any legal process, creating and maintaining a good rapport with a firm’s clients is a key task for Associate Attorneys. This includes communicating often and explaining complex legal proceedings and concepts.

Core skills:

• Appropriate certifications
• Hold a license from the state in which they wish to work
• Possess extensive legal knowledge
• Ability to manage several projects simultaneously
• Understanding confidentiality requirements
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with others.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• On call

License/Certification:

• SC Bar (Required)

Work Location: In person

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $96,000.00 - $170,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• On call

Ability to Relocate:

• Columbia, SC 29201: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person