Premises Liability Associate

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Distinct | North America is seeking a Premises Liability Associate to work fully remotely from anywhere in California. The role centers on complex liability matters, habitability, negligent security, and injuries on construction sites, with opportunities to work with experts and depositions to shape outcomes.

The ideal candidate will have 2–8 years of experience and must hold the California Bar. This position offers a competitive salary range and a path toward trial exposure within a large

Qualifications

• Licensed to practice law in California.

Responsibilities

• Handle premises liability assignments including habitability, negligent security, and injuries on construction sites.

Skills

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.