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About the Role

Harris Beach Murtha is seeking an associate to join its growing Mass Torts and Industry-Wide Litigation team, with a particular focus on our national asbestos defense practice. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with experienced attorneys across multiple offices, engage in high-level litigation strategy, and take on meaningful responsibility representing defendants in a variety of industries in state and federal courts nationwide. The work is collaborative, fast-paced, and provides hands-on experience managing complex toxic tort matters.

Responsibilities

Take and defend depositions of plaintiffs and fact witnesses
Research legal, procedural, and scientific issues, and collaborate with senior attorneys on strategy
Draft responsive pleadings, memoranda, briefs, and significant motions including motions for summary judgment and discovery motions
Prepare reports to clients, including deposition reports, litigation status reports and case analysis reports
Represent clients at courtroom appearances, including oral argument of motions and discovery conferences (both in-person and virtually)

Requirements

Admission to the New York AND New Jersey bars (required)
Juris Doctor from ABA-accredited law school
Familiarity with Zoom, MS Teams, and other video platforms for depositions, court conferences, and hearings
Excellent research, writing, and verbal communication skills
The ability to function effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities
Demonstrated ability to rapidly absorb and analyze new information
A high level of professionalism, conscientiousness, and responsibility
A positive, flexible, and cooperative attitude
Military experience welcome

Skills

Asbestos defense litigation
Zoom
MS Teams
Video platforms
Research
Writing
Verbal communication
Organizational skills
Priority management

Location

Albany, New York
Buffalo, New York
Ithaca, New York
Rochester (Pittsford), New York
Syracuse, New York
Long Island (Uniondale), New York
White Plains, New York
New York City, New York

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

2+ years of asbestos defense litigation required

Education Level

Juris Doctor from ABA-accredited law school

Salary/Compensations

Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Rochester (Pittsford), Syracuse: $125,000 - $185,000
Long Island (Uniondale) and White Plains: $140,000 - $185,000
NYC: $145,000 - $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.