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Job Description

Job Description

Discovery Attorney — Family Law

Most family law jobs hand you a caseload and hope you can carry it. This one is different.

We're hiring a Discovery Attorney to own the discovery workstream on our most complex matters. Business valuations. Self-employed income. Separate property claims. Cases where the money is hiding, and somebody has to go find it.

You won't carry a full caseload. You won't do consults. You won't be asked to bring in business.

What you'll own

• Rule 49 disclosure strategy and execution on assigned matters

• Subpoenas, records collection, and financial tracing

• Written discovery, from drafting through motions to compel

• Deposition preparation and outlines

• Working directly with forensic accountants and business valuators

• Your own billable time, at your own rate, on your own matters

$140,000+

Written discovery

• Draft, serve, and track uniform and non-uniform interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admission

• Manage response deadlines and extensions across all assigned matters

• Draft responses and objections to incoming discovery, and coordinate client document collection

• Maintain a running privilege log where one is needed

Third-party records and subpoenas

• Identify which records matter and where they live: banks, brokerages, employers, payroll, retirement plans, credit applications, business filings, title companies

• Draft, serve, and track subpoenas through to production

• Chase custodians who don't respond, and escalate when they still don't

• Organize and index what comes back so it's usable, not just collected

Financial analysis and asset tracing

• Reconstruct income for self-employed and business-owner parties

• Trace separate property claims through account histories and transaction records

• Build source-and-application-of-funds analyses on commingling issues

• Flag lifestyle and income discrepancies for the responsible attorney

• Identify undisclosed accounts, entities, and transfers

Expert coordination

• Scope and manage forensic accountants, business valuators, and vocational evaluators

• Assemble and transmit the expert's document package

• Track expert deadlines and disclosure requirements

• Prepare summaries of expert findings for the responsible attorney and the client

Depositions

• Build deposition outlines from the record

• Assemble and pre-mark exhibits

• Prepare document summaries and chronologies for the taking attorney

• Take depositions on discovery issues where appropriate

Motion practice

• Draft motions to compel, motions for sanctions, and protective order responses

• Handle meet-and-confer correspondence

• Appear at discovery hearings

Case management and handoff

• Maintain the discovery status of every assigned matter so the responsible attorney always knows where things stand

• Prepare a discovery summary and issue list at the close of discovery, ready for settlement or trial prep

• Flag matters early when the discovery picture changes the case strategy

Practice building

• Record your time daily and hit a 1,400-hour annual billable target

• Build the templates, checklists, and workflows that make this repeatable

• Help define which matters need discovery support and at what depth

• Help train and mentor the next hires into this group

• Successful completion of accredited law school with Juris Doctorate (J.D.) degree with 2 years of related experience
• Well-versed in legal research software (Westlaw/Lexis)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite is necessary
• Communication, problem-solving, decision-making, interpersonal, and public speaking skills required
• Able to work independently while handling multiple files

Required

• Licensed to practice in Arizona

• Three or more years practicing family law, or five or more years in civil litigation with significant discovery experience

• You can read a tax return, a K-1, a P&L, and a year of bank statements and tell us what's wrong with them

• Demonstrated experience running written discovery and third-party subpoenas from start to finish

• Strong writing. Your motions should be short, clear, and hard to argue with

• Organized enough to run fifteen open discovery tracks at once without losing a deadline

• Comfortable with legal technology. We run Clio, and we use AI tools daily, and we expect you to use them well

Strongly preferred

• Experience with business valuation, self-employed income analysis, or separate property tracing

• You've worked with forensic accountants and know how to scope them

• You've taken depositions, even a handful

• Experience in Maricopa, Pinal, or Pima County family court

• Spanish fluency

Temperament, which matters more than any of the above

• You are the kind of person who reads the whole bank statement

• You do not accept "we've produced everything responsive" at face value

• You will send the fourth follow-up letter to a records custodian without being asked

• You would rather find the answer than argue about it

• You're comfortable being the person who knows the file better than anyone else in the room, including opposing counsel

What we are not requiring

• A book of business. You will never be asked to bring in a client.

• A trial record. Trial work is available if you want it, and optional if you don't.

• Prior experience with this exact title. Almost nobody has it. If you've been doing this work in the margins of a full caseload, that's the experience we're looking for.

Modern Law is a launchpad for ambitious professionals. You’ll join a collaborative, supportive team with the autonomy to run your practice your way—no micromanaging, just real trust.

We have more high-quality work than you can handle, so you can focus on advocacy, not client hunting. And our flexible billable requirements adapt to your goals—whether you want to maximize income or maintain balance, we’ll back your definition of success.

Here, you bring the drive. We provide the rocket fuel.