Senior Litigation Attorney
Responsibilities
- Manage all litigation across the organization, with a strong emphasis on employment litigation.
- Direct and oversee multiple outside counsel firms, including reviewing briefs, auditing billable hours, and establishing structure and accountability.
- Draft and review contracts, letters, and internal legal documents.
- Conduct legal research across employment, fair housing, real estate, and operational issues.
- Build foundational litigation systems, processes, and workflows within a newly forming legal department.
- Serve as a senior litigation partner to the General Counsel (who has strong corporate experience but no litigation background).
Skills Required
- Extensive litigation experience (15+ years), with strong grounding in employment litigation; fair housing or real estate litigation helpful.
- Demonstrated ability to manage, direct, and challenge outside counsel, including performance oversight and billing review.
- Strong drafting skills (contracts, letters, memos).
- Ability to create structure in an unstructured, newly formed legal department.
- Excellent interpersonal approach - collaborative, steady, not professorial, and able to partner effectively with non litigator GC.
- Must be California barred.
- Prior in house experience preferred; law firm background strongly beneficial.
Education & Work Experience
Degree:
- JD from an accredited law school.
Work Experience:
- 15+ years practicing law, with a heavy litigation background (employment litigation dominant).
- Experience drafting and reviewing contracts.
- Experience managing multiple outside counsel firms and building processes from scratch.
Location
- Remote
- Must be licensed in California
About Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams, and organizations. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. To learn more, please visit Korn Ferry at www.Kornferry.com
