Litigation Associate, Bodily Injury Defense

Distinct | North America; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Distinct Recruitment is recruiting a Litigation Associate in Fort Lauderdale, FL for bodily injury defense. The role covers defense across premises, auto and general negligence, with opportunities to handle depositions, motions, mediations and trial work as you prove yourself.

The position offers a clear path to first-chair experience and partnership discussions as you take ownership from the initial report through final resolution.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of litigation experience.
• A calm head when a plaintiff's demand lands with a 14 day deadline.

Responsibilities

• Bodily injury and personal injury defense across premises, auto and general negligence claims.
• Building the defense: medical record review, IME strategy, surveillance and prior claims searches.
• Taking depositions of plaintiffs, treaters and experts.
• Arguing motions and leading mediations.
• Trial work with growing responsibility, including first chair as you're ready.

Skills

Litigation experience

Job description

Litigation Associate, Bodily Injury Defense | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $125,000 to $200,000 | Bodily Injury / Personal Injury

"Just settle it" is sound advice on some files and expensive advice on others. Knowing the difference is the skill that makes a bodily injury defense lawyer valuable, and it only comes from handling cases all the way through.

That's what this role offers.

I'm Ryan Jaiswal at Distinct Recruitment. On behalf of an insurance defense firm, I'm hiring a bodily injury defense attorney in Fort Lauderdale who wants to own files from the first report to the final word.

Inside the job

• Bodily injury and personal injury defense across premises, auto and general negligence claims
• Building the defense: medical record review, IME strategy, surveillance and prior claims searches
• Taking depositions of plaintiffs, treaters and experts
• Arguing motions and leading mediations
• Trial work with growing responsibility, including first chair as you're ready

Before you apply

• 2+ years of litigation experience
• A calm head when a plaintiff's demand lands with a 14 day deadline

Logistics

• 1,950 billable hours a year

Why bother moving

Because the right firm changes how quickly you grow. Here, the salary band is wide on purpose, so seasoned attorneys are paid like seasoned attorneys. The more you bring, the more you're trusted with: catastrophic injury files, supervising newer lawyers, direct client relationships and a conversation about partnership that doesn't keep getting pushed to next year.

And because exposure compounds. Every deposition you take and every hearing you argue makes the next one easier, and makes you harder to overlook.

What good looks like

The best bodily injury defense lawyers I know have one habit in common: they form a view of the case early and update it honestly. They tell adjusters what a file is worth before a mediator does. If that's how you like to practice, the clients here will value you quickly.