Employment Litigation Attorney - San Francisco, United States - Ascension Global Staffing and Executive Search

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    Ascension Global Staffing & Executive Search, a Hispanic Women Owned & Operated National Recruiting Firm stands at the forefront of innovation and excellence.

    Led by a visionary team with a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion, our firm is dedicated to identifying and attracting top talent across the nation.

    With a unique blend of cultural insight and professional expertise, we pride ourselves on creating an environment that fosters success for both employers and candidates.


    Years Of Experience

    Attorneys with - 4 years of experience with employment litigation and advice and counseling.

    Academic Requirements

    Outstanding achievement, including law school record, references, and proven litigation and writing skills. Our client's lawyers generally are ranked high in their class at top tier law schools.

    Admission to CA Bar

    Required.

    Type Of Experience

    Familiarity and experience with employment litigation (including discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination suits) and wage and hour litigation are essential. Class action experience would be very helpful but is not required. Familiarity with California civil procedure is also helpful.

    Familiarity and experience with employment counseling (including the construction of employment policies and manuals and wage and hour counseling) are very helpful, but only limited experience in these areas is required.


    The position will focus mostly on litigation and associated counseling.

    Type of Work

    Depends on experience and demonstrated ability; our client tends to get some of the best litigation in this area across the country.


    Level of Responsibility

    Depends on experience and demonstrated ability.

    Degree of Client Contact


    As much as appropriate:
    depends on experience and client skills no preconceived limitation.

    Our client's labor and employment practice affords junior lawyers significant client contact and the opportunities to run cases, and it is their hope that the lawyer filling this position will be in a position to run some cases immediately upon joining the firm.


    Travel

    Not much; some of their work is outside of California, and may require travel for hearings and depositions.

    Most of their litigation is based in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas and staffed from those respective offices.


    Billable Hours

    They have no formal billable hour requirement. Their lawyers work hard. Commitment to the firm, clients and matters is what counts.

    Practice Area Summary

    They represent national corporations both in litigation that is national in scope and in litigation that relates just to their California operations.

    Their employment lawyers handle some of the most cutting edge work in the country along with a steady diet of more standard employment litigation.

    They frequently defend class, collective, and representative actions of all kinds; claims of discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination; retaliation and whistleblower claims; and disputes regarding pay equity and executive compensation; they also conduct sensitive internal investigations involving high risk allegations.

    Clients often turn to them when employment-related claims implicate fundamental aspects of their business model and require sophisticated advice and counseling in addition to top-notch litigation handling.


    Benefits Of Joining Our Client

    Among the best complex business litigation in the country; prominent and committed clients; great people to work with; an open and progressive firm environment; terrific profit per partner and associate compensation and benefits history.


    Salary Scale

    2024 Annual Salaries

    Law School Class Year Salary

    2024 $225,000

    2023 $225,000

    2022 $235,000

    2021 $260,000

    2020 $310,000

    2019 $365,000

    2018 $390,000

    2017 $420,000

    2016 and earlier $435,000

    The salary range is the one that our client reasonably expects to pay for this position. The salary range does not guarantee, obligate, nor set expectations of an applicants wage in the event of hire. The posted range is only one component of our clients Total Rewards package.
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