Attorney

Distinct | North America; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid flexibility

National network of offices

Freedom to switch disciplines

1,900 billable target for litigation

Partnership, relocation and part-time

Job summary

Distinct | North America seeks lawyers to grow in a genuinely hybrid setting, splitting time between home and the Buffalo office while serving a national client base. You’ll have support to develop across disciplines and move where your career wants to go.

Admitted to the NY Bar with solid practice-area experience, you’ll manage matters with autonomy and build your own docket within a flexible, long-term framework that supports relocation and career evolution.

Qualifications

• Admitted to the NY Bar.
• Solid experience in your chosen practice area.
• Ability to manage matters with autonomy.
• Interest in joining somewhere you can actually stay for the long term.

Responsibilities

• Managing your own matters with the backing of a genuinely national platform
• Advising and representing clients within your chosen practice area
• Working alongside attorneys across different offices and disciplines
• Building your practice in a way that suits where you want your career to go

Skills

Admitted to NY Bar

Practice area experience

Autonomy in matter management

Long-term career with hybrid firm

Job description

You probably don’t know where you’ll want to live, what hours you’ll want to work or even what sort of lawyer you’ll want to be in 10 years.

It’s probably a good idea to join a firm that doesn’t expect you to.

Want the flexibility of working from home without giving up the benefits of being around your team? That’s the set-up here.

The firm operates a genuinely hybrid model, giving you the freedom to split your time between home and the Buffalo office in a way that works for you and your team.

Move across the country later on? There are offices in all 50 states.

Fancy changing practice areas? You can. And you’ll get support to get up to speed.

Need to reduce your hours because life has changed? That conversation is genuinely on the table.

In other words, your career doesn’t have to stay exactly as it looked when you first picked a practice area.

Why this firm

• Genuine hybrid flexibility, combining home working with time in the office
• A national network of offices if your circumstances or location change
• Freedom to change disciplines as your interests develop
• 1,900 billable target for litigation attorneys
• Partnership, relocation and part-time options mean you can build a career around your life, rather than the other way round

What you'll be doing

• Managing your own matters with the backing of a genuinely national platform
• Advising and representing clients within your chosen practice area
• Working alongside attorneys across different offices and disciplines
• Building your practice in a way that suits where you want your career to go

What you'll have

• Admitted to the NY Bar
• Solid experience within your chosen practice area
• The ability to manage matters with a good degree of autonomy
• An interest in joining somewhere you can actually stay for the long term

Next Steps

Here’s the bit worth remembering: you don’t need to be actively looking to have a conversation.

Maybe there’s something better out there for you. Maybe there isn’t.

Worst case, we have a confidential chat and you decide staying put is the right move. That’s a perfectly good outcome too.