Employment Litigation Associate — High-Stakes, Direct Client (Austin)

We Are Legal Revolution; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 158,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No firm-wide billable-hour requirement

Job summary

We Are Legal Revolution in Austin, TX seeks an Employment Litigation Associate to handle high-stakes employment litigation, with direct client exposure and meaningful responsibility on lean teams.

You will work on both plaintiffs and defendants' matters, including executive disputes, wage-hour actions, and trade secret issues, while building a counseling practice and avoiding firm-wide billable targets.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years of litigation experience in state and/or federal court.
• Experience with dispositive motions and discovery management.
• Strong research, writing and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage employment litigation matters with increasing independence.
• Handle single-plaintiff disputes, wage-and-hour class and representative actions, executive disputes, restrictive covenant matters and employment-related trade secret issues.
• Draft pleadings, dispositive motions, discovery and substantive briefs.
• Conduct and defend depositions and support hearings, mediations and settlement conferences.
• Advise employers and employees on employment disputes, compliance and risk.
• Conduct workplace investigations and support internal employment assessments.
• Communicate directly with clients, opposing counsel and agency representatives.
• Take ownership of key workstreams and contribute to case strategy.

Skills

Litigation experience

Dispositive motions

Discovery management

Research skills

Writing skills

Analytical skills

Texas employment law

Civil procedure

Legal AI tools

Education

Law degree

Tools

Legal AI tools

Job description

We Are Legal Revolution in Austin, TX seeks an Employment Litigation Associate to handle high-stakes employment litigation, with direct client exposure and meaningful responsibility on lean teams.

You will work on both plaintiffs and defendants' matters, including executive disputes, wage-hour actions, and trade secret issues, while building a counseling practice and avoiding firm-wide billable targets.