Employment Defense Associate

Employment Defense Associate | Fully Remote, Los Angeles | $225,000 to $275,000 Two years into employment defense is about the right time to be taking your own depositions, and on this Los Angeles team you would be. It's employer side, it's fully remote and it pays $225,000 to $275,000. You'd want at least two years defending California employers, and the California Bar. Most of the caseload is wage and hour and PAGA, in state and federal court, plus the single plaintiff discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination files every employer collects sooner or later. The clients make and sell things. Food and drink, factories, farms, hotels, shops, clothing brands. So your witnesses are shift supervisors and plant managers, and your documents are time punch reports and a handbook nobody's opened since their first week. There's advice work as well and people undersell that bit. Telling a client how to fix a meal break policy before a PAGA letter turns up is a lot more satisfying than defending the old one after it has, and you'd be trusted to have that conversation with the client yourself. You'd run your own files and write your own motions. The firm likes to think of itself as a partnership with not much of a ladder, so if you put your hand up for something you tend to get it. Decent benefits, and the work comes to you at home. #J-18808-Ljbffr Distinct | North America