Junior Litigation Associate

Junior Litigation Associate | Hybrid, San Francisco | $120,000 to $140,000 The first motion you draft here comes back with more red on it than black. You take it personally for about a day and a half, and then somebody mentions the partner spent 40 minutes going through it line by line, and none of those 40 minutes went on a bill. Insurance and civil defence litigation, drafts that come back marked up, and files of your own sooner than you'd expect, because defence files move. Hybrid in San Francisco, so you're in often enough to pick things up by accident. It's a national firm, and whatever's just gone wrong on your file, somebody in the building has had it go wrong on theirs. It's $120,000 to $140,000 to start. What you'd be doing: Drafting motions and the discovery that goes with them Letters to opposing counsel you'll rewrite three times before anyone else sees them Sitting in on depositions, then taking them Research that ends up in somebody's brief Handing work to partners who read every line of it You'll need: A law degree A thick enough skin for a draft that comes back covered The California Bar, or a result you're still waiting on I'm Arran Jaiswal at Distinct North America. There are 100 plus recommendations at the bottom of my LinkedIn page if you're the checking sort. #J-18808-Ljbffr