Senior Attorney

About the position This is a fully-remote position. Our team of 3 experienced attorneys/3 associate attorneys/3 support staff communicate throughout the day via Slack collaborating on complex legal issues and staying up to speed on how we can help each other succeed. If you are looking for more of a hybrid remote work environment, we have offices available throughout the Bay Area. We have a low monthly billable hour requirement. If you exceed the minimum requirement, you will receive a monthly bonus. Our priority is the level of service we provide to our clients and not the number of hours we bill to each case. Your employer is a mother of two littles and deeply understands the value of your time. We do our work and then return to our personal lives. Each month we have an hour-long case meeting where we collaborate on each case and assign projects to our support staff. Our extremely competent and effective support staff handle the administrative stuff so you don't have to. If you bring in business, you will be compensated for it. The salary range for a full-time position is $170,000 - $300,000+. Benefits include monthly bonus compensation, health insurance, dental insurance, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO, paid maternity leave, tech budget, and reimbursement for costs associated with becoming a Certified Family Law Specialist. Opportunity for partner track and career acceleration for the right candidate. While this position is for full-time, we are open to the candidate starting as a part-time attorney. We are most interested in finding the right person, and then we can work with you to provide the work environment/flexibility that you prefer. Who you are You have 7+ years of experience, in and out of the court, with Family Law matters. You are looking for a law firm where you feel supported and valued and can plant roots for the foreseeable future. You have negotiated and litigated the full spectrum of disputes that occur in financially sophisticated divorces and contested custody cases. You have been lead attorney for multiple family law trials. You can convey value during consultations by understanding prospective clients’ needs and how the firm can offer tangible solutions. You will physically appear in court to litigate matters in the following counties: San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Marin, Alameda, and Contra Costa. You are passionate about the manner you provide proactive and strategic legal advice and leverage the legal system and your professional acumen to help clients obtain the most beneficial outcomes whether by negotiated settlement or litigation. You are a stickler about documenting legal advice to clients, because you genuinely care about your clients, and know that when it is in writing, it will help them better understand their options and the ramifications of their decisions. You are already a Certified Family Law Specialist or plan to become one in the coming years. Who we are Fenchel Family Law PC is owned and managed by Valerie Fenchel, who is passionate about providing the best work environment possible for the firm's legal team. She believes in working to live and has found that the firm's clients are best supported and taken care of by a happy legal team. We are a team of incredibly smart, hard-working, talented, and caring attorneys and support staff. We are no-nonsense and take a lot of pride in the results we obtain for our clients. Our clients regularly write us five-star reviews, and our attorneys are consistently nominated by Super Lawyers. #J-18808-Ljbffr