Employment Litigation & Trial Attorney

Who These Roles Are For

These opportunities are focused on employment litigation, workplace disputes, wage and hour claims, PAGA, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, counseling, and business-facing employment law strategy. Candidates must have employment litigation, counseling, or workplace dispute experience, strong drafting, discovery, motion practice, or counseling skills, be comfortable with client interaction and case responsibility, have relevant state bar admission or eligibility, and be interested in employment law as a practice focus.

Candidates looking only for general commercial litigation, transactional-only attorneys, or attorneys not comfortable with litigation deadlines are not suitable for these roles.

About The Opportunities

We are speaking with attorneys and legal professionals for select opportunities involving employment litigation, workplace disputes, wage and hour claims, PAGA, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, counseling, and business-facing employment law strategy. These roles are grouped because the same candidate audience could reasonably match more than one opening in this tile.

Senior Litigation Attorney

• Focus: 5+ years California employer-side employment litigation; FEHA depth; wage-and-hour, class actions, PAGA representative actions; motion practice; depositions of complex witnesses; trial preparation; matter ownership; supervision/mentoring junior associates; at least one jury trial experience as first or second chair.

Junior Litigation Attorney

• Focus: 1-4 years California employer-side employment litigation; pleadings, discovery, depositions, motion practice in CA state/federal courts; discrimination, wage-and-hour, and PAGA matters; independent case ownership; mediation/arbitration preparation; strong written advocacy.

Senior Counsel - Employment

• Focus: 5-8 years focused employment law experience; handle employment compliance, agreements, restrictive covenants, workplace investigations, executive compensation, equity plan design/administration, contractor classification, wage/hour, remote workforce compliance, handbooks, HR policies, and startup counseling.

Labor & Employment Associate (Denver)

• Focus: 3-5 years management-side labor and employment law; employment litigation involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour; discovery requests/responses; depositions; pleadings and motions; hearings/court/admin agency representation; employer counseling, policies, handbooks, compliance with.

Pay & Schedule

• Downtown Los Angeles / San Jose / Manhattan Beach / Torrance, CA: $180K-$280K; $110K-$170K; $180K-$240K + 15% bonus + equity; additional ranges vary by role
• San Francisco, CA / New York, NY / United States: $180K-$240K + 15% bonus + equity
• Denver, CO: $165K-$190K base; OTE $250K-$380K with uncapped quarterly productivity bonus