Employment Litigation & Counseling Attorney

Years of Experience

Attorneys with 1 - 4 years of experience with employment litigation and advice and counseling and/or a well-founded interest in developing a labor and employment practice.

Academic Requirements

Outstanding achievement, including excellent law school record, strong references, and proven litigation and writing skills. We seek candidates who were ranked high in their class at top tier law schools. A J.D. from an ABA accredited law school is required. Admission to CA Bar Required.

Type of Experience

• Familiarity and experience with employment litigation (including discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination suits) and wage and hour litigation are essential.
• Familiarity with California civil procedure is also helpful.
• Familiarity and experience with employment counseling (including the construction of employment policies and manuals, counseling regarding employee discipline and termination, and wage and hour counseling) are very helpful, but only limited experience in these areas is required.

Type of Work

Depends on experience and demonstrated ability; we tend to get some of the best litigation in this area across the country.

Level of Responsibility

Depends on experience and demonstrated ability.

Degree of Client Contact

As much as appropriate: depends on experience and client skills – no preconceived limitation. Our labor and employment practice affords junior lawyers significant client contact and the opportunities to run cases, and it is our hope that the lawyer filling this position will be in a position to run some cases immediately upon joining the firm.

Travel

Not much; some of our work is outside of California, and may require travel for hearings and depositions. Most of our litigation is based in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas and staffed from those respective offices.

Billable Hours

We expect that under ordinary circumstances all full-time associates will strive to work at least 2,000 hours per year on client matters for which time is recorded (i.e., litigation or transactional matters, including pro bono).

Practice Area Summary

We represent national corporations both in litigation that is national in scope and in litigation that relates just to their California operations. Our employment lawyers handle some of the most cutting-edge work in the country along with a steady diet of more standard employment litigation. We frequently defend class, collective, and representative actions of all kinds; claims of discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination; retaliation and whistleblower claims; and disputes regarding pay equity and executive compensation; we also conduct sensitive internal investigations involving high risk allegations. Clients often turn to us when employment-related claims implicate fundamental aspects of their business model and require sophisticated advice and counseling in addition to top-notch litigation handling.

Benefits of Coming to Munger, Tolles & Olson

• Early responsibility and advancement;
• great and committed clients;
• great lawyers to work with;
• an open and progressive firm environment;
• terrific profit per partner and associate compensation history.

Salary Scale

The salary scale for this position is as follows:

Law School Class Year Salary 2026 $225,000 2025 $225,000 2024 $235,000 2023 $260,000 2022 $310,000 2021 $365,000 2020 $390,000 2019 $420,000 2018 and earlier $435,000