Associate Labor & Employment

Locations: Able to consider offices across California – Los Angeles, San Francisco, Irvine, San Diego, Sacramento.

About the Role

This is a career-defining opportunity to build a sophisticated California-focused practice at a top global AmLaw 100 firm exclusively devoted to representing management. The firm has shaped some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record for over 75 years.

• Hybrid schedule based out of the firm's office
• Competitive compensation: $250,000 - $300,000 annually, contingent on experience
• Join a global platform with 1,800+ attorneys across 100+ offices worldwide
• Work alongside Chambers-ranked labor and employment attorneys in a culture that celebrates original thinking and rewards intellectual curiosity
• Strong associate development and mentorship program
• Leverage powerful proprietary technology and AI-driven tools that redefine how modern employment law is practiced
• High-caliber, high-stakes California work: substantive wage and hour, PAGA, and class action matters on behalf of sophisticated management-side clients
• A firm consistently recognized as a leading and innovative law practice – the gold standard in the labor and employment space

Responsibilities

• Defend sophisticated wage and hour class and collective actions
• Handle PAGA representative actions – one of the most active and evolving areas of California litigation
• Advise and defend management-side clients across a broad range of labor and employment matters
• Collaborate directly with partners and clients on strategy, discovery, motion practice, mediations, and trial preparation

Requirements

• 3-6 years of labor and employment law experience
• Substantial wage and hour, PAGA, and class action experience (required)
• Active California bar license
• Strong academic credentials and top-tier writing and analytical skills
• Ambition, curiosity, and a genuine interest in shaping the future of employment law

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
• Superior 401(k) plan
• Ample time off
• Mental health and wellness programs
• Family building and caregiving support
• Generous paid parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Employee referral bonus program

Pay

$250,000 - $300,000 annually, contingent on experience.