Civil Litigation Defense Associate

Distinct | North America; San Francisco (CA); Híbrido; USD 160.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

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Hybrid work model

Descripción de la vacante

Distinct | North America is seeking a Civil Litigation Defense Associate for a hybrid role in Northern California. You’ll handle cases from discovery through trial, with a mix of defense work across motor vehicle, premises, workplace incidents, professional negligence, and construction/design defect matters.

The role requires three to five years of civil litigation experience and admission to the California Bar, with a hybrid work model and a competitive compensation package reflecting a

Formación

• Three to five years of civil litigation.
• The California Bar.

Responsabilidades

• Written discovery, and the motions that actually move a case
• Depositions of your own, including the experts
• Site inspections, which is where most of what matters turns up
• Mediations and settlement conferences, where the number everybody arrived with changes
• Reporting to carriers and to risk managers, who want different things from each other

Conocimientos

Civil litigation

Depositions

Educación

California Bar

Descripción del empleo

Civil Litigation Defense Associate | Hybrid | Northern California

The first thing you’d ask for is the sign in sheet from a safety meeting eight months before anybody got hurt, and whether the name you’re looking for is on it.

It usually isn’t. Or it is, and the handwriting isn’t theirs, and either way you’ve got a morning of phone calls ahead of you and a plaintiff’s expert who has already decided what that sheet means.

Northern California, three to five years in, and the files cover more ground than most defense seats at that level. Motor vehicle and trucking collisions, premises, workplace accidents, professional negligence, products, construction and design defect, catastrophic injury and wrongful death. The clients are a mix of public and private, which changes the work more than people expect.

Why this one

• Three to five years and you’re running your own files, start to finish
• A reasonable billable target rather than a heroic one
• Enough different kinds of case in the first year that you don’t get narrow at the age where getting narrow decides your next twenty years
• Hybrid, so there’s no daily commute to account for
• $160,000 to $190,000 with bonuses on top

What you’d be doing

• Written discovery, and the motions that actually move a case
• Depositions of your own, including the experts
• Site inspections, which is where most of what matters turns up
• Mediations and settlement conferences, where the number everybody arrived with changes
• Reporting to carriers and to risk managers, who want different things from each other

What you’d need

• Three to five years of civil litigation
• The California Bar