Employment Litigation-Associate
Litigation
Palo Alto
BigLaw
3-5 Years
The Role
Requirements
Candidates with at least 3-5 years of experience in management-side employment law litigation and counseling. The ideal candidate will have current large firm experience providing day-to-day advice to fast-growing technology companies on all aspects of employment law (e.g. terminations, leaves of absence, reviewing and drafting policies), employment mobility issues (trade secrets, non-competes, and employee solicitation), and advising clients on employment-related issues in mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions.
The Firm
Vault 35; 950 attorneys across 19 offices around the world. Vault #2 Emerging Companies and VC. The firm seeks candidates with an entrepreneurial spirit and an interest in technology and innovation, and laterals are assigned a partner mentor to support integration. 1,950 billable hour requirement, which can include unlimited pro bono hours and other non-client work. While many associates find this to be reasonable, especially appreciating the PTO program—where 40 hours of PTO count as billable time—others believe the work to be unevenly distributed, leading to burnout. Associates appreciate the level of responsibility they are afforded to work on substantive legal work for dynamic clients. Regarded as a technologically forward firm, Wilson the firm has stepped up its technological platforms to enhance remote work efficiency and is developing its own technology in-house to automate mundane tasks.Compensation is at market rates (i.e. base $215k-$415k).
Recruiter
Amanda Cannon | acannon@cannonlegalsearch.com
Job ID:
199