Employment Litigation Associate

Distinct | North America; California; Remote; USD 260,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

Distinct | North America is seeking an Employment Litigation Associate for a fully remote role based in Los Angeles. You will handle FEHA matters, including discrimination and harassment, with a band of $260,000 to $295,000.

The position focuses on wage-and-hour class work alongside partners and involves depositions, arbitration motions, and client advisories. A California Bar license and strong academic credentials are required.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of employment litigation experience.
• Active California Bar license required.
• Strong academic grades and law school performance.

Responsibilities

• Handle FEHA files from start to finish, including mediation.
• Take depositions of HR managers and supervisors.
• Draft arbitration motions, briefs, and hearings.
• Manage wage-and-hour class work with partners.
• Draft client advisory letters with your counsel signature.

Skills

Litigation

FEHA

Employment law

Deposition

Education

California Bar

Job description

Employment Litigation Associate | Fully Remote, Los Angeles | $260,000 to $295,000

Every office kitchen in Los Angeles has a laminated sign above the coffee machine, and every one of those signs has been up long enough to curl at the corners.

Please rinse your mug. No fish in the microwave. Whoever keeps finishing the oat milk, we know who you are. Somebody printed it in Comic Sans in about 2017, somebody else added the oat milk bit in ballpoint, and at least one partner has lost a team meeting to finding out who it was. It's never been solved, and it never will be.

This job's in Los Angeles and you won't have to read that sign again. It's fully remote, for an employment litigator three or four years in, with a band of $260,000 to $295,000.

Most of the work is FEHA, so discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination, with wage and hour class and collective actions running alongside it. You'd have single plaintiff cases that are yours, and class work where you sit next to a partner and watch how the big ones get defended.

Your week, roughly:

• Your own FEHA files, start to finish, mediation included
• Depositions of the HR manager and the supervisor who made the call
• Arbitration motions, the briefing and the hearing
• Wage and hour class work with the partners
• Client advice letters that go out with your name at the bottom

They'd like three or four years of litigation, mostly employment, good grades and the California Bar. Benefits are what you'd expect from a large national firm.