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Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled, motivated, and ambitious Senior Associate with a passion for mission-driven work, to join our dynamic legal team, specializing incomplex consumer class actions. The Senior Associate will be responsible for managing a caseload involving complex legal issues surrounding emerging technology, AI, data privacy and misuse, as well as other complex consumer class actions. Candidates must possess excellent writing skills, with the ability to draft clear, persuasive, and well-structured briefs, motions, and memoranda that require minimal editing, as well as the ability to independently take depositions, present oral arguments, and argue motions. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience handling key dispositive motions, including motions for summary judgment and motions for class certification, and the ability to independently manage major phases of class action litigation. This is an opportunity to be mentored by industry thought leaders, to creatively pursue interesting cases, and to champion causes that meaningfully impact ordinary people's lives and the world.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

· Evaluating new cases; preparing and reviewing case proposals

· Conducting legal research

· Developing and recommending case strategy

· Drafting motions and briefs in file-ready form

· Overseeing filing process for motions and briefs

· Preparing, finalizing, and serving stipulations, discovery letters, joint statements, and proposed orders

· Corresponding with co-counsel, opposing counsel, court personnel, and clients as necessary

· Drafting, propounding, reviewing, and responding to discovery; managing discovery disputes

· Preparing for and taking/defending depositions

· Attending mediations, arbitrations, and court hearings

· Taking argument at mediation, arbitration, and court hearings

· Attending and/or leading team and firm meetings

· Adhering to all deadlines (internal and court mandated)

· Administrative duties as they relate to the practice of law

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

· 5+ years of Litigation Experience

· CA Bar Admission Required

· Proficiency in Microsoft Office required

Skills and Abilities

· Strong writing, legal research, and analytical skills

· Proactive thinker, self-sufficient

· Strong leadership, team management, and organizational skills

· Strong oral advocacy and negotiation skills

· Ability to handle a wide variety of legal matters

· Adherence to all deadlines

· Effective time management

· Committed to superior client service

· Familiarity with e-filing preferred

Clarkson is a 30-lawyer class action law firm made up of the best of the legal profession. We are the overachievers, the true believers, and the hundred-to-ones. We curate, cultivate, and champion cases to win justice for real people—workers, consumers, patients, insureds, survivors, and underdogs. We imagine a fair future for all people, and we fight relentlessly to right a diverse array of societal injustices. We battle industry Goliaths in state and federal courts throughout California, New York, across the United States, and even abroad, in cases involving artificial intelligence, false advertising, antitrust, employment, environmental, healthcare, consumer protection, fertility negligence, sexual assault, and whatever else harms ordinary people. We aspire to be the most forward-looking, purpose-driven law firm in the world—which demands adaptive mindsets and unique skills that can look and feel quite different from the classic law firm.

If you are a creative thinker with an underdog spirit, then this could be the place for you. We are rapidly growing due to our adaptive business model and core differentiators among our people. We pride ourselves on:(1) our authenticity—we are diverse in life experiences and skillsets, and committed to a larger purpose; (2) our agility—we are able to pivot, experiment, and take risks other firms cannot; and (3) our culture—we cultivate a uniquely magnetic experience, lifestyle, and team. Our firm is at a growth inflection point, and we need to accelerate our internal capabilities to keep up with the demand from millions of consumers, patients, policyholders, workers, creators, and responsible corporate citizens seeking to hold mega corporate wrongdoers accountable for their illegal conduct.