Litigation Attorney

Distinct | North America; Charleston (SC); Hybride; USD 150 000 - 320 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work model

Résumé du poste

Distinct | North America in Charleston, SC seeks a Construction Litigation Associate (Mid Level or Senior) to handle disputes for general contractors, owners, developers, and design professionals. You will work on mechanic’s liens, bond and surety claims in court, arbitration, and mediation across public, commercial, industrial, and residential projects.

You’ll take client calls, shape the expert strategy, take depositions, and argue your own motions while building lasting client relationships.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of litigation experience.
• Admitted in South Carolina, or can waive in or sit for the next bar.
• Ability to distill a 400-page spec book into three sentences a juror will remember.
• Construction experience in insurance defense, real estate, commercial, products liability, surety or design professional litigation counts.

Responsabilités

• Take the client call yourself
• Shape the expert strategy, not just schedule the experts
• Take depositions and argue your own motions
• Work with the same clients and experts across your files, so relationships build file after file
• Defect, delay, payment and contract disputes for general contractors, owners, developers, homebuilders, design professionals and sureties
• Mechanic’s lien, bond and surety claims, in court, in arbitration and at mediation
• Public and commercial builds, industrial facilities, residential communities
• Retainage fights. Differing site conditions. A change order log that quietly contradicts the contract. If that makes you reach for the file, keep reading.

Connaissances

Litigation experience

Legal writing

Formation

SC Bar admission

Description du poste

Construction Litigation Associate (Mid Level or Senior) | Charleston, SC | $150,000 to $320,000

In construction law, a career really starts the day a general contractor asks for you by name. This firm puts you in the room early enough for that to happen.

I’m hiring for a regional law firm in Charleston that is adding to its construction litigation team because the work keeps coming.

What lands on your desk

• Defect, delay, payment and contract disputes for general contractors, owners, developers, homebuilders, design professionals and sureties
• Mechanic’s lien, bond and surety claims, in court, in arbitration and at mediation
• Public and commercial builds, industrial facilities, residential communities
• Retainage fights. Differing site conditions. A change order log that quietly contradicts the contract. If that makes you reach for the file, keep reading.

What you’ll actually do

• Take the client call yourself
• Shape the expert strategy, not just schedule the experts
• Take depositions and argue your own motions
• Work with the same clients and experts across your files, so relationships build file after file

Where it leads

• The firm has a steady record of promoting its construction lawyers to partner, including recent promotions
• They hire people they plan to keep, and they hand out the work to match

The numbers

• $150,000 to $320,000. The range is wide because the firm is hiring at two levels. Mid level associates sit toward the lower end. Senior associates ready to run a case from intake to trial sit toward the top.
• 1,800 to 1,900 billable hours
• Hybrid, and you choose the split

You’ll be a strong fit if

• You have 2 or more years of litigation experience
• You’re admitted in South Carolina, or can waive in or sit for the next bar
• You can turn a 400 page spec book into three sentences a juror will remember
• Construction isn’t in your title yet. Insurance defense with construction files, real estate, commercial, products liability, surety or design professional litigation all count.

How it works

• A confidential first call with me. No pressure, just a conversation about the role and where you want your career to go.
• Two rounds of interviews with the firm
• Constructive feedback after each stage

Based in Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Summerville, Daniel Island or anywhere in the Lowcountry? Weighing a move from Columbia, Greenville, Myrtle Beach, Savannah or Charlotte