Litigation Associate

DYNAMIC ATTORNEY POSITION IN INTERNET-FOCUSED FIRM

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Litigation Associate

About You as a Litigation Associate

As a Litigation Associate at Mudd Law, you will work with the entire team in representing our litigation clients. This will involve representing individuals and entities in litigation that, depending on the circumstances, could involve our clients being either plaintiffs or defendants in either state or federal court (and, sometimes both).

To become a team member at Mudd Law, you should want to join a small firm with a reputation for dynamic, exceptional, strategic, and ethical representation. We want a personable team member who seeks challenges and opportunities to grow as an attorney. 

Specific to this role, we seek someone who can demonstrate an exposure to and interest in litigation at both the state and federal levels. More substantively, you should possess litigation experience that includes drafting complaints, motions, and discovery.  It would be a significant advantage for you to also possess deposition and trial experience.

You must have exceptional communication, research, and writing skills.  You need to be able to create and submit your best work, yet be open to positive criticism and editorial comments. You should not fear red ink, as we work collaboratively to produce the best quality product possible. You must be able to understand novel concepts and think "outside the box."

You must possess time management skills and an ability to work in a fast-paced environment. This includes experience contemporaneously tracking your time on a daily basis.

About the Litigation Associate Position

This litigation associate position offers you the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology and cutting-edge legal issues. Our clients include businesses within the aerospace, software, challenge course, and film industry. They include startups, established entities, local businesses, and multinationals. Our cases often involve highly sensitive matters that require immediate action and responsiveness. The nuanced issues often present novel situations requiring creative application of legal principles. The cases will be predominantly Internet and technology based. As such, candidates must enjoy technology and know how to use the Internet effectively.

Although the position will be predominantly litigation based, assignments will also involve exposure to transactional and intellectual property matters.

Duties and Responsibilities

This position offers compelling opportunities in which you will:

• Work with peers in a collaborative team environment
• Develop strategy and offer insight into diverse client situations
• Communicate directly with clients and related parties
• Research diverse and novel legal issues
• Navigate various court and jurisdictional rules
• Attend court hearings
• Draft myriad litigation documents including demand and litigation hold letters complaints; motions of simple and complex structure; discovery; deposition outlines voir dire; and, other trial related documents
• Participate in some transactional matters
• Convey to the team what you learn through CLE
• Participate in general business and professional development

This position should be perceived as dynamic and morphing with changes in technology and firm operations. This job post reflects some key components of the position, but does not represent an exhaustive list of expectations and duties. Candidates should understand that Mudd Law works as a team. We want to provide the best representation for our clients as possible. To ensure this, we all work together to accomplish this and other goals. No task is too small to help a colleague when a colleague needs help.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Familiarity with time tracking software such as Amicus Attorney

Understanding of Microsoft Word, iCalendar, and cloud-based software

Understanding of electronic filing and court dockets

Familiarity with Lexis Nexis and PACER

Email etiquette

Creative thinker and writer

Time management skills and ability to work and respond to current and changing events in a past paced environment

Education and Experience

J.D. required, licensed in Illinois a must, additional license in Texas a bonus

5 years of experience in litigation

Law review and legal experience in social media will weigh in your favor

Benefits

The position will be full-time and salaried. We pay our associates salaries that are commensurate with their experience and the small firm nature of the practice. We also provide immediate hands on experience to varied aspects of extremely interesting areas of the law. To be sure, at Mudd Law, you will do more than document review.  Moreover, we emphasize a team environment that serves to produce a creative and productive work environment in which an associate can grow and assume responsibility as capability is demonstrated.

Our benefits package offers:

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Professional development allotment

Retirement savings program

Flexible remote working options

About Us - Mudd Law

Internationally recognized for its Internet and space focused litigation and transactional practice, Mudd Law serves domestic and international individuals, commercial entities, and non-profit organizations across diverse sectors including challenge course, drone, film, and ecommerce industries.  It represents clients on matters involving data security, defamation, drones, gaming, and more.  It routinely serves the general needs of startups and small businesses including, but not limited to, contracts, intellectual property, and litigation. To be sure, the Firm becomes involved with some of the most cutting-edge legal issues on a routine basis.  This makes the Firm a dynamic and exciting environment in which to work.

Mudd Law includes a team of independent thinkers working collaboratively and cohesively to provide clients with advanced, effective, and strategic representation. We love the law and strategically use it to protect our clients and their interests in an ethical, personal, professional manner.

We strive for excellence. We push ourselves. We understand our clients come to us with valuable assets they seek to protect - their lives, their businesses, their reputations, and their passions.  We love and live technology. We continually seek opportunities to expand our knowledge and understanding of diverse subject matter. And, we advocate changes in law and policy that will benefit humankind.

We seek attorneys who want to join a collaborate environment where they will obtain immediate substantive experience and grow in their profession. We work hard to provide our clients the representation they deserve; at the same time, we enjoy what we do and with whom we work.