Employment Litigation and Counseling Associate

Distinct | North America; California; Remote; USD 235,000 - 365,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Big firm benefits

Job summary

Distinct | North America seeks an Employment Litigation and Counseling Associate for a fully remote role based in California. The candidate will handle wage-and-hour class actions and discrimination matters, with opportunities in trial work and advising on employment policies.

The ideal attorney has two+ years of employment litigation and counseling experience and is admitted to the California Bar. Big-firm benefits are offered for this role.

Qualifications

• Two years of employment litigation and counseling experience.
• Active California Bar membership.
• Remote work with California-based hearings and client meetings.

Responsibilities

• Wage and hour class actions, including certification fights.
• Single plaintiff discrimination and retaliation cases in state and federal court.
• Drafting and negotiating employment agreements, handbooks and policies.
• Advise clients on layoffs, investigations, or terminations before filings.

Skills

Litigation experience

Employment law

Counseling clients

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Employment Litigation and Counseling Associate | Fully Remote, California | $235,000 to $365,000

This is an employment associate job in California for someone two years in or more, fully remote, paying $235,000 to $365,000.

It's a big firm with offices around the state, and you'd use whichever one's nearest when a hearing or a client meeting needs you in a building.

The mix is why I'd look at it. Plenty of second and third years pick a lane by accident, usually whichever case had the most hours going when they arrived, and they get to year five knowing one retailer's rounding policy better than its finance director does. This desk keeps you broad.

• Wage and hour class actions, including the certification fight
• Single plaintiff discrimination and retaliation cases in state and federal court
• Employment agreements, handbooks and policies drafted from a blank page
• Advising a business on a layoff, an investigation or an awkward termination before anyone's filed anything
• Trial work, and they'd like it if you've got some

You'd need at least two years of employment work, litigating and advising both, and the California Bar. Benefits are the full big firm package.