Financial Services Litigation Attorney

Job Type: Full time

About the role

We are a BigLaw spinoff litigation boutique focused on representing securities broker/dealer firms, Registered Investment Advisers, and other actors in the retail financial services industry in litigation, enforcement defense, and regulatory counseling matters. Based in Cleveland, Ohio our practice is national in scope, and due to the nature of our practice, we regularly litigate against AmLaw 200 firms.

Skills

• 4th to 7th year associate
• Stable work history with several years at their current firm
• Experience working at mid-sized to larger firms
• Practice focus on complex commercial litigation or employment litigation
• If in employment litigation, experience focused on non-solicit/non-compete matters, trade secret claims and the like (not protected class or hostile work environment matters)
• Comfortable with and adept at direct client interaction
• Experience with day-to-day management of assigned matters and driving litigation strategy on your cases
• Skilled at designing and implementing e-discovery protocols; experience with conducting reviews on Relativity and related platforms
• Experience with trial preparation and a strong desire to gain real trial advocacy experience as second chair in both courtrooms and arbitrations
• Sufficient flexibility to travel as needed for matters
• Experience dealing with TRO and injunctive relief proceedings a substantial plus
• Experience with white collar criminal matters not necessary but a substantial plus
• Background in finance or accounting also not necessary but a substantial plus