Employment Trial Partner

Distinct | North America; California; Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus programs

401(k) contribution

Paid parental leave

Travel

Job summary

Distinct in Orange County is seeking an Employment Trial Partner for a remote or hybrid role. Base salary ranges from $250,000 to $285,000 with bonus programs, a 401(k) plan, and paid parental leave.

You will handle large employment files from arrival to verdict, craft strategy early, select juries, and lead witnesses at trial. The ideal candidate has ten years or more of litigation experience including employment jury trials, California Bar admission, and appellate experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Ten years or more of litigation experience including employment jury trials.
• California Bar admission.
• Appellate experience would help.

Responsibilities

• Lead employment jury trials from case arrival to verdict.
• Develop theory early and build strategy accordingly.
• Oversee witnesses and manage trial teams with juniors assisting.
• Travel as needed for trials or client needs.

Skills

Ten years litigation experience

Employment jury trials

Education

California Bar admission

Job description

Employment Trial Partner | Remote or Hybrid, Orange County | $250,000 to $285,000 base

Plenty of employment partners haven't picked a jury on their own case in three years, and most of them would rather you didn't bring it up at dinner.

Most employment defense settles, and plenty of firms build the whole practice around that. This Orange County group wants a partner for the ones that don't. You'd take the big employment files from the day they arrive to a verdict, work out the theory early and build everything off it, pick the jury, open, and put the client's witnesses up yourself. There'd be several cases going at once with juniors on all of them, and you'd be the person they learn trial work from.

It pays $250,000 to $285,000 base, with bonus programs on top, a 401(k) contribution and paid parental leave. Work is remote or hybrid, whichever suits you, and you'd travel when a trial or a client needs you there.

The group is established and growing and has a bit of an entrepreneurial streak about how it does that. People don't tend to leave. So the associate you spend two years training is still around to second chair your next trial, and the partner down the hall still picks up when a witness starts wobbling the night before they go on.

You'd want ten years or more of litigation including employment jury trials you led, and the California Bar. Appellate experience would help.