- Assist in providing case evaluation, legal support, and guidance.
- Develop case strategy and find plausible solutions to legal matters.
- Assist in preparing litigation reports and risk assessments.
- Attend hearings, depositions, and other court appearances.
- Attend focus groups.
- Stay informed about any current legislation.
- Building trustworthy relationships with clients and experts.
- Assist with finalizing legal documents such as depositions, pleadings, and contracts promptly and accurately.
- Assisting in drafting and finalizing complaints, meet and confer letters, motions to compel and discovery responses.
- Assist in negotiating low-level settlements and attend mediations.
- May interview, train, mentor and assist in managing legal staff within their team.
- Willingness to meet personally with clients.
- Ability to handle a high caseload.
- Experience or expertise in a specific branch of law.
- Commitment to abiding by the set laws and behaving ethically.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Strong critical thinking skills.
- Excellent public speaking skills.
- Adaptability and attention to detail.
- Ability to work on a case independently.
- Ability to work with a team of attorneys to develop strategies for a case.
- Ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal form.
- Juris Doctor or equivalent from an accredited law school required.
- Active license to practice law .
- 2+years of related experience.
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
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Trial Attorney - Costa Mesa, United States - MLG Attorneys at Law
Description
A Trial Attorney assists the Sr. Attorney in managing multiple cases. This role will help prepare litigation reports and risk assessments, draft legal documents, and make court appearances on our clients' behalf. The role focus areas are Strategy, Motions, Trial Preparation, Low-level Depositions, Low-level Trials & Mediations, and Research.
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ABOUT US
MLG is an incredibly fast-moving, high energy law firm that is all about achieving outstanding results. We have developed an extremely unique practice area in the automotive industry, where we have all but defined vehicle defect litigation. We have built a national reputation for taking on billion-dollar companies and have litigated cases against nearly every major automotive manufacturer in the world.
If you want to be part of the team that sets the standard others will judge themselves against, we welcome your application.
OUR VISION: To become the leading law firm in the nation for vehicle defects, bar none.
OUR MISSION: To litigate vehicle defect cases against manufacturers, using novel and systematic methods that create unexpected pressure on adversaries, the goal of which is to maximize recovery in the shortest time possible.
OUR VALUES
Excellence – Good enough is not good enough
Consistency – Build a reputation that enters the room before you do
Innovation – Create opportunities in areas that others have yet to even discover
Better than Yesterday – Continually grow, develop and learn
Systematic – Harness the power of organized activity
Community – Be a pillar of the community in a way that would make your mom proud
