Premises Liability Associate

Distinct | North America; California; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote in California

Job summary

Distinct | North America is seeking a Premises Liability Associate to join our fully remote California practice. Work focuses on evaluating control of premises, negligent security, and injuries at construction sites, with opportunities to work with experts and depositions in complex cases.

Ideal candidates have 2–8 years of experience and must be admitted to the California Bar. Remote work within California is supported, with competitive compensation ranging from $150,000 to $210,000 per year.

Qualifications

• Requires California Bar admission and 2–8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with premises liability, negligent security or tort defense is a plus.
• Able to manage complex phim files with depositions and expert retention.

Responsibilities

• Work on premises liability matters and determine control of premises in disputes.
• Handle habitability and negligent security arguments in defense cases.
• Coordinate with experts and manage depositions for trial readiness.

Skills

Premises liability

Trial experience

Negligence law

Education

California Bar

Job description

Premises Liability Associate | Fully Remote, California | $150,000 to $210,000

A gate at the back of an apartment building stopped latching in March. Tenants told the on site manager, the manager emailed the management company, the management company sent a contractor who swapped the closer and billed for it, and in May a stranger walked through that gate at two in the morning and a resident got hurt. By the time the file reaches you there are four defendants, three contracts and a security vendor, and every one of them has a piece of paper showing the gate was somebody else's job.

You'd be the lawyer who works out who controlled that gate. This seat is premises work with an argument in it, habitability, negligent security, injuries on construction sites, files where you get experts and the depositions decide something. It's a long way from a few hundred identical slip and falls that all settle for the same figure.

The firm has done well hiring from smaller and regional defense shops, lawyers who've been doing this work for a while and want a bigger outfit behind them, and they push to get associates into trial as often as they can. Fully remote anywhere in California, $150,000 to $210,000, and anything from two to eight years of experience works as long as you hold the California Bar.