Summary:
Our highly awarded client is actively hiring for a Family Law Associate Attorney to work a hybrid schedule position at their downtown San Diego Office. Salary is commensurate with experience; excellent opportunity to bonus.
Responsibilities:
- Assist supervising attorney in management of family law cases
- Draft letters, pleadings, financial disclosures, mediation briefs, and trial briefs
- Propound and respond to discovery, prepare meet and confer letters, and prepare motions to compel
- Prepare deposition outlines and exhibits
- Defend and take depositions
- Prepare witness questions for evidentiary hearings and trial
- Conduct legal research and prepare memorandums
- Prepare for and attend ex parte hearings, RFO hearings, and other matters
- Routine client contact
- Ability to handle matters from inception to conclusion
- Track billable time
Qualifications
- Must be admitted to and in good standing with the California bar
- 3 – 5 years of family law attorney experience
- Strong analytical skills and oral communication skills
- Excellent writing skills
- Attention to detail and accurate work product is a must
- Ability and desire to meet deadlines
- Highly motivated professional with a positive, team player attitude