Description
About MWD
MWD is a modern insurance coverage law firm accelerating beyond the status quo by prioritizing innovation, sustainability, and teamwork as part of our commitment to providing trusted advice and excellent results for our clients. MWD exemplifies large firm experience in a small firm platform and provides effective and efficient legal representation in the areas of insurance coverage advice and litigation, as well as intellectual property and general business matters. We represent and advise our insurance industry clients both locally and nationally on a variety of diverse and complex insurance issues and coverage disputes arising out of environmental, construction, intellectual property, trademark infringement, public entity errors and omissions, products liability, mass tort, wildfire, habitability, bad faith, entertainment, personal injury, and advertising injury, among others.
About the Position
MWD is seeking an Associate Attorney to join our team as we grow and expand into the future. MWD empowers high performance in our team by promoting a culture of flexibility, learning, innovation, connection, and comradery, as we believe that all are essential elements for a thriving law practice. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, reasonable billable hour requirements, the ability to work remotely, opportunities for advancement, and a focus on professional growth and development in a specialized legal field.
The Associate Attorney will be a 2-5 year graduate from an accredited law school and will actively assist our partners and work closely with clients in all phases of state and federal insurance coverage practice, including policy analysis, legal research, correspondence, analysis of case files, drafting of memorandums and reports, participation in strategy discussions, and assisting in ADR and trial. Insurance coverage experience is a plus but not required.
Compensation: Salary range is $120,000 to $140,000+, commensurate with experience and based upon 1650 billable hours annually with automatic bonuses at each additional 50-hour increment. At the 1800 annual billable hours threshold, both automatic and discretionary bonuses are available.
Benefits: MWD offers a competitive benefits package including a flexible paid vacation and sick time policy, health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance and an Employee Assistance Program), as well as a 401K plan with a Safe Harbor Match. This is a partnership track position offering significant opportunities for professional growth.
Requirements
Requirements
Position Requirements:
Full-time, flexible remote work.
Applicant Qualifications:
*Bachelor’s Degree
*J.D. from an accredited law school
*California (and/or Nevada, Colorado, Arizona) Bar Admission in good standing
*Excellent research, writing, analysis, and communication skills
To apply for this position, please submit (1) a cover letter; (2) your resume; and (3) a writing sample to AttorneyRecruiting@mwdllp.com.