About the Role
Clyde & Co seeks a litigation attorney with 3-5 years of experience to join their automotive product liability and warranty litigation practice. The role involves handling all aspects of litigation, from initial pleadings through trial, with a focus on discovery and trial assistance. The team represents a diverse range of clients, including manufacturers, retailers, and their insurers.
Responsibilities
- Taking depositions, arguing motions, and attending court hearings and mediations as required
- Drafting motions, pleadings, briefs, discovery requests and interrogatories, and other legal correspondence and litigation documents
- Conducting complex and rigorous legal research and analysis, and drafting memoranda
- Preparing status reports and recommendations to clients
- Reviewing document collections in preparation for litigation
- Working on all aspects of litigation, from the initial responsive pleading through trial
Requirements
- Admitted to the CA bar
- Discovery and Law and Motion experience
- Experience with California Lemon Law, including the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act and Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act
- State and Federal court experience
- Excellent academic credentials and work history
- Superior writing, and analytical skills
- Strong Interpersonal skills
- Ability to handle matters of a highly sensitive nature
- Ability to handle time sensitive matters, sometimes several simultaneously
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Ability to identify and resolve problems quickly
- Strong work ethic
- Attention to detail
- Capable of working within a team
Skills
- Litigation process
- Legal writing
- Proactive case management
- Independent action throughout discovery
- Trial assistance
- Legal research and analysis
- Client reporting
- Document collection review
- Aviation litigation
- Products liability litigation
- Automotive warranty litigation
Location
- Los Angeles
- Orange County
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000 - $200,000
About the Company
- Clyde & Co is a global firm with 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices worldwide.
- Firm values: work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly.
- Committed to operating responsibly by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce.
- Devoted to providing an environment where everyone can realize their potential.
- Supports communities through pro bono work, volunteering, and charitable partnerships.
- Minimizes environmental impact, committed to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and setting ambitious emissions reduction targets.
Equal Opportunity
- Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
- Values encourage fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination.
- Welcomes and encourages all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.
- Will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories or arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of FCIHO and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
