Senior Personal Injury Attorney

Senior Personal Injury Attorney

$200000 - $300000 per year | Downey, CA | On-site | Permanent

A bit about us:

Growing, plaintiff-side personal injury practice with multiple offices across California and Arizona. The firm handles a broad range of serious injury and accident matters and has built a strong reputation for aggressive advocacy, client service and meaningful case results. With multiple offices and a growing team, it offers attorneys an opportunity to handle substantive litigation in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment while working directly on cases that have a significant impact on clients' lives.

Why join us?

• Opportunity to try the firm's most significant injury cases
• Base compensation plus additional commissions
• 100% of marketing and administrative work handled by the firm
• Real room to grow your career and book of business with extremely competitive splits
• Health insurance, vision, dental
• 401k

Job Details

A highly respected boutique firm is looking for a seasoned trial lawyer with 6 to 15 years of experience to lead and develop our litigation team. This is a senior, managerial role reporting directly to the founder. You will try the firm's major injury cases, set the standard for how we litigate, mentor the attorneys around you, and take our largest injury matters through verdict.

Responsibilities

• Try the firm's major injury cases from workup through verdict
• File and prosecute lawsuits from complaint through trial
• Take and defend expert depositions, including retained medical, biomechanical, and liability experts
• Take and defend depositions of critical fact witnesses, PMK/PMQ witnesses, and adverse parties
• Draft, argue, and oppose dispositive and pretrial motions in court
• Conduct and respond to written discovery
• Prepare cases for trial: motions in limine, witness prep, exhibits, and trial strategy
• Lead, direct, and develop the litigation team

Qualifications

• Admitted to practice in California and in good standing
• 6 to 15 years of litigation experience
• A proven trial record: first-chair trial experience and cases tried to verdict
• Demonstrated skill taking expert depositions and depositions of critical witnessesExperience arguing motions in court
• Strong command of pleadings, written discovery, and law-and-motion practice
• Excellent legal research and writing, sharp strategic and analytical judgment, and outstanding communication
• Comfortable in high-volume contact with clients and opposing counsel, with the temperament to mediate disputes and earn trust
• Calm and effective under pressure, with strong organizational and time-management skills

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