General Liability Associate

Distinct | North America; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Distinct | North America in Los Angeles seeks a General Liability Associate for a hybrid role. You will defend GL matters, handle site inspections, depositions, and hearings as two years of GL defense experience and California Bar are required.

You will work for insurers and businesses, manage discovery, draft motions, and shape litigation strategy. The position offers on-site and remote work with a salary range of $150,000 to $180,000 plus a bonus.

Qualifications

• Two years of general liability defense experience.
• Must be admitted to the California Bar.
• Strong writing and oral advocacy.
• Experience with site inspections and depositions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct site inspections at warehouses, construction sites, and parking lots.
• Take and defend depositions; participate in hearings.
• Draft discovery and shape litigation strategy.
• Argue motions and manage files for insurers and policyholders.

Skills

GL defense

Deposition experience

Drafting motions

Discovery drafting

Site inspections

Education

California Bar

Job description

General Liability Associate | Hybrid, Los Angeles | $150,000 to $180,000

Defense lawyers who've stood on the spot where somebody got hurt write better motions than the ones who've only seen it in photos, and plaintiff's counsel can usually tell within one deposition which sort they've got across the table.

On this job you'd be the one who goes and stands there. The practice is general liability defense and this seat gets the catastrophic injury files, the ones where the number in the demand makes everyone sit up and every expert on the other side has been paid to describe a place you haven't been to yet. The site inspections are yours, and so are the depositions and the hearings, and you get them two years into civil litigation.

You'd act for insurers and the businesses they cover, with some advisory work on top of the litigation. If you've done catastrophic injury before it helps, and if you haven't it won't stop you. Two solid years of GL defense will get you looked at, as long as your writing stands up and you've got the California Bar.

A normal two weeks:

• Site inspections at warehouses, construction sites and parking lots, so dig out some shoes you've already given up on
• Depositions, taking them and defending them, on files where someone's life went a different way
• Drafting discovery and helping shape the strategy on each file
• Your own motions, argued by you

Hybrid, home for some of the week. $150,000 to $180,000 and a bonus.

You won't need the old shoes for this bit.