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About the Role
We are seeking an associate attorney to join our nationally-recognized Mass Torts and Industry-Wide Litigation, Products Liability team. This role involves collaborative work with colleagues across all offices and with local counsel nationwide.
Responsibilities
- Litigate matters involving complex injury defense
- Take and defend depositions as first chair
- Manage discovery, including e-discovery
- Draft reports, legal memoranda, pleadings, discovery demands and responses, motions, and briefs
- Participate in trial and ADR planning and preparation
- Represent clients at courtroom conferences and motion appearances
- Manage day-to-day case responsibilities with partner supervision
Requirements
- Admission to the New York bar
- Experience practicing before New York State courts
- Federal experience is a plus
- Strong deposition experience
- Strong motion practice experience
- Strong pleading experience
- Strong e-discovery experience
- Familiarity with Zoom
- Familiarity with Microsoft Teams
- Familiarity with other video conferencing platforms
- Minimum annual billable requirement of 1900 hours
- Military experience welcome
Skills
- Research
- Writing
- Verbal communication
- Organizational skills
- Prioritization
- Managing competing deadlines
- Quickly absorb new information
- Process new information
- Understand new information
- High standards of performance
- Professionalism
- Accountability
- Cooperative attitude
- Positive attitude
- Flexible attitude
- Team-oriented attitude
Location
- New York, NY
- Manhattan office
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4+ years of experience Mass Torts, Products Liability Defense Litigation
Education Level
- Juris Doctor from ABA-accredited law school
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $185,000
About the Company
- Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP.
- A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with over 250 years of combined history.
- New York roots reach back to 1856, with ties to New England since 1936.
- Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately ranked among the country’s top law firms by The National Law Journal.
- Strong Northeast presence with global reach.
- Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations, and individuals.
- Practice areas span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates.
- Offices in Connecticut (Bantam, Hartford, New Haven, Stamford), New York (Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island, White Plains), Boston, Massachusetts, and Newark, New Jersey.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to an inclusive environment
- Welcomes applications from diverse candidates with varied background and skills, including military experience
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Firm's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination in all aspects of employment.
- Ensures a positive, respectful, and productive work environment, free from unlawful harassment.
- Prohibits harassment or discrimination based on race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status, or any other legally protected status.
- Complies with Human Rights Law and all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions, including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.