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About the Role
Seeking an associate attorney for a nationally-recognized Mass Torts and Industry-Wide Litigation, Products Liability team. This role involves collaboration with colleagues across offices and 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 (required)
- Juris Doctor from ABA-accredited law school
- Experience practicing before New York State courts; federal experience is a plus
- Strong deposition, motion practice, pleading, and e-discovery experience
- Familiarity with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and other video conferencing platforms
- Excellent research, writing, and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize workload and manage competing deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to quickly absorb, process, and understand new information
- High standards of performance, professionalism, and accountability
- A cooperative, positive, and flexible team-oriented attitude
- Military experience welcome
Skills
- Mass Torts
- Products Liability Defense Litigation
- e-discovery
- Zoom
- Microsoft Teams
- Video conferencing platforms
- Research
- Writing
- Verbal communication
- Organizational skills
- Prioritization
- Deadline management
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4+ years of experience
Education Level
- Juris Doctor
Salary/Compensations
- $155,000 - $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 the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936.
- Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.
- Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, but a global reach.
- Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals.
- The firm’s practice areas and industries served 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.
- The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey.
Equal Opportunity
- Harris Beach Murtha is committed to an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from diverse candidates with varied background and skills, including military experience.
- Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- The firm’s policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination.
- It is the policy of Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment.
- Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual’s race or 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 is strictly prohibited.
- Harris Beach Murtha complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.