Associate Attorney Gillette Law Group, PLLC

NOSSCR; Williamsburg (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Gillette Law Group, PLLC in Williamsburg, VA is seeking an Associate Attorney / Hearing Attorney to handle Social Security disability hearings and represent clients with compassion.

This position offers remote work in VA, NC, DC, or MD, or a hybrid arrangement in Williamsburg. The founder, Brian Gillette, emphasizes personal attention to clients and meaningful practice beyond filing papers.

Job description

• Are you tired of talking with your client for the first time the day before the Social
  Security disability hearing?
• Working for an organization that has forgotten there are real people with real
  problems behind those files?
• Feeling like a cog in a machine?
• Is anyone at your firm still teaching you anything?

Williamsburg Disability Lawyer Wants to Find a Hearing Attorney Who Still Sees the Human Being

Associate Attorney / Hearing Attorney • Gillette Law Group, PLLC • Remote in VA, NC, DC,
or MD, or hybrid in Williamsburg, VA

Are you a lawyer who handles Social Security disability hearings and has started to wonder
whether you are still practicing law or just processing files?

If so, keep reading.

My name is Brian Gillette. I have been a lawyer for 34 years and I have spent more than 20 of
them representing people who cannot work anymore. I am looking for one attorney to handle
hearings alongside me. Before I tell you anything about the job, I am going to tell you about me,
because if I am not your kind of lawyer then nothing else in this ad is going to matter.

Here Is What My Life Actually Looks Like

I get up at six in the morning.

The first thing I do is walk Puzzle, my Scottish Deerhound. If you have never seen a Scottish Deerhound, picture a shaggy greyhound the size of a miniature pony who has decided her real
calling is comforting people. She is enormous and she is patient and she is better with people than most people are.

Then I make myself a latte on my espresso machine and heat up some egg bites in the microwave. This is not a glamorous breakfast. It is the breakfast of a man who wants to get to
work.

I have a ten-minute commute to my office in Williamsburg, unless I am headed to a hearing somewhere else.

On Mondays I do something different. I take a couple of hours at a coffee shop for what I call thinking time. No files. No email. Just working on the business of this firm instead of working in
it. I spent most of my career too busy to do this. That was a mistake.

At lunch I take Puzzle for a walk.

I usually stop working around five. Sometimes I look up and it is seven. I try not to work Saturdays. I am not always successful.

That is my day. Now let me tell you why I am writing this.

Why I Am Writing This Ad

I am 34 years into this career, and I have recently been forced to think hard about how I want to spend the next stretch of it.

I am not ready to retire. I like this work. I still take hearings and I am not eager to give them up. But I have come to understand that if I keep being the only lawyer in this firm, this firm ends the
day I stop. And I have built something here that