Litigation Attorney

About Us

Platt Richmond PLLC is a full-service business law firm that offers a collaborative environment to work and grow professionally. We help entrepreneurs navigate legal complexities and honor our commitments to our clients and to each other. With a strong foundation of business acumen, we are committed to producing practical, business-oriented legal solutions. As a 25+ attorney firm, we recognize and appreciate the value of hard work, but we also like to have fun. Our culture is important to us. We respect the personal time of our team members and genuinely like each other. We stick to our values: we are relentless problem solvers, strive for excellence, believe in the power of being honest and respectfully candid, and are relationship-centered at our core.

About the Role

Platt Richmond is seeking a Litigation Associate to join our growing practice. This role is designed for someone responsible for a broad range of commercial litigation matters both in Texas and across the country, including contract, fraud, intellectual property, defamation, real estate, creditor’s rights, class action defense, and other business disputes. This role requires varied knowledge of the litigation process in state and federal courts and excellent base litigation skills, including legal research, writing, strategy development, hearings, depositions, and trial preparation. You will work closely with partners, associate attorneys, and paralegals.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload and assist in all facets of the litigation practice
• Draft motions, discovery, and legal briefs
• Take fact and expert depositions
• Appear for court hearings
• Develop litigation strategy and prepare for trial
• Take ownership of cases and tasks to drive cases forward
• Assume significant responsibility for the management of varied commercial cases or tasks with Partner oversight
• Manage and delegate appropriate tasks to paralegals
• Assist partners on a broad range of commercial litigation cases
• Conduct legal due diligence, including fact-checking and expert depositions

Qualifications

• 3+ years of commercial litigation experience involving business disputes and causes of action
• Experience litigating commercial disputes in both State and Federal Courts (experience with creditor’s rights litigation and appeals preferred but not required)
• Strong experience drafting motions, including Temporary Restraining Orders, Motions for Summary Judgment, Pretrial Motions, and Motions relating to discovery disputes
• Extensive experience drafting and managing varied and tailored discovery over a wide variety of cases
• Strong attention to detail
• Intellectual curiosity and genuine interest in projects
• Excellent communication and grammatical skills, both verbal and written
• Genuine, authentic personality
• Team player; takes direction well and is receptive to constructive feedback
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• J.D. and Texas Bar Admittance

The Right Fit

This role is ideal for someone who:

• Values high-quality work but doesn’t want the big law lifestyle
• Enjoys working directly with clients and being part of a great team
• Is looking for high-quality litigation experience, meaningful responsibility, and the ability to make an impact

Benefits

• Highly flexible work-from-home policy
• Collegial atmosphere of hard-working but fun-loving partners, associates, and staff
• True work-life balance with a 1700 billable hour requirement
• Dedicated paralegals and support staff
• Support and mentoring for business development initiatives
• Origination credit on matters brought to the firm by the associate
• Straightforward partner track
• Comprehensive benefits, including paid vacation and holidays, 401(k) and profit-sharing program, and health/vision/dental insurance
• Parking
• Competitive salaries with opportunities for discretionary bonus, formulaic bonus, and paid origination credit