Litigation Team Leader

About the role

Jimerson Birr is seeking a Litigation Team Leader who excels in dynamic environments, moves quickly, and takes command of both strategy and execution. This role blends high-impact commercial litigation work with leadership of a small, high-performing team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead weekly Team meetings, assessing scorecards, staffing, case mix, SLA health, projects, and issues; ensuring the team stays aligned, focused, and on-plan.
• Distribute work decisively and intelligently, keeping throughput high and maintaining clarity on priorities.
• Reinforce discipline in process execution by ensuring matter plans, templates, and technology are consistently adopted.
• Coach attorneys and paralegals, offering direction, feedback, and persuasive guidance that moves the team toward results.
• Own client relationships for all matters touched by your team. This includes driving satisfaction, retention, and opportunities for expanded engagement.
• Maintain a selective litigation docket, stepping in where your strategic or advocacy presence will have maximum impact.
• Respond quickly as issues arise, keeping matters in motion and eliminating bottlenecks before they slow progress.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• JD + active Florida Bar
• 7–10+ years of litigation experience, with demonstrated leadership, judgment, and ability to direct others
• Strong record in hearings, depositions, negotiations, and strategy execution
• Ability to communicate persuasively and drive alignment around decisions
• Comfort managing multiple moving parts at once and making fast, informed decisions
• Prior proven ability to enforce standards, elevate team performance, and maintain forward momentum

Preferred Qualifications

• First-chair trial experience
• Experience in complex commercial, class action, consumer, or eminent domain litigation
• Prior leadership or player-coach experience

Benefits

You’ll practice inside a client-service model designed to create consistent value:

• Clarify objectives, success criteria, budget, timeline, and communication preferences at intake—then manage to them.
• Keep lines open and responsive; clients never guess how to reach us or when they’ll hear from us.
• Staff matters smartly, use technology and checklists to reduce friction, and provide early assessments for predictable spend.
• Make progress visible with alignment calls, status summaries, and documented decisions.
• Anticipate needs, surface options, and help clients plan the next goal beyond the one we just achieved.
• Ask better questions, summarize tradeoffs plainly, and write for business readers.
• Hold the team (and yourself) to timelines, scopes, and outcomes; surface risks early and propose fixes.

Join a dynamic team

We offer competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment dedicated to fostering your success. We’ve found that the key to doing great work is to love what you do and respect who you do it with. To continue reading about our firm, visit our website Jimerson Birr. Our atmosphere and award-winning firm culture is collegial and professional, and our shared commitment to professional development is superior to our contemporaries. Learn more about our firm culture here: JB Firm Culture: JB FOR ME.

About Jimerson Birr

Jimerson Birr is a law firm that protects clients' rights, businesses, properties, investments, and finances. Our professionals give clients insights into legal and business considerations that guide prudent decision-making. We work with respected businesses and start-up visionaries, helping them overcome challenges. We offer meaningful influence, autonomy, and the ability to make a tangible impact on both the team and the firm.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment and all employees are treated during employment without regard to race, color, sexual orientation, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, gender identity, and marital status.