Litigation Associate

Litigation Associate - Plaintiff-side Securities Litigation

About the Company

If you want real trial experience, market-leading compensation, and freedom from the billable hour grind, this top securities litigation firm in LA is the answer you are looking for.

You don't need prior securities litigation experience, but you must be interested in the practice area. This firm is one of the most elite securities litigation boutiques in the country. If you've got complex litigation experience and/or a clerkship, that will do.

Since its founding, the firm has recovered tens of billions for investors, litigating the most consequential securities, corporate governance, civil rights, and consumer protection cases in history. This is a trial-tested, precedent-setting firm that goes toe-to-toe with the largest defense firms and wins. Last year alone, the firm surpassed $1B in settlements.

About the Role

You'd be fighting fraud and malfeasance in financial markets on behalf of investors and going up against some of the best lawyers and biggest companies in the world.

The firm shapes holds companies accountable and uses litigation to improve corporate governance and financial markets.

The firm has repeatedly taken “bet-the-company” matters to verdict and forced massive settlements on the eve of trial.

Responsibilities

• Work on headline-making securities fraud and governance cases that change the law and improve market practices. You would not be relegated to document-review purgatory.
• Develop into a well-rounded litigator who can strategize, see the forest through the trees, and win a verdict at trial.
• Draft creative and bulletproof pleadings
• Brief novel, complex issues in dispositive motions
• Extract information from major public companies through the tools of discovery
• Leverage the evidence to push for settlements or successfully tell the story at trial

Qualifications

• Top law school
• Academic excellence
• Interest in securities law

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Top law school
• Academic excellence
• 1+ year of complex litigation experience at a top AmLaw firm or boutique, US government, or federal clerkship

Preferred Skills

• US federal clerkship

Pay range and compensation package

• 2020 class: $290k base + up to $178.5k bonus
• 2021 class: $270k base + up to $153k bonus
• 2022 class: $240k base + up to $136k bonus
• 2023 class: $205k base + up to $102k bonus
• 2024 class: $195k base + up to $59.5k bonus