Associate Labor & Employment
Labor & Employment Associate - Hybrid - California | $250,000 - $300,000
Locations: Able to consider offices across California - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Irvine, San Diego, Sacramento
My client, a top global AmLaw 100 firm, exclusively devoted to representing management, is seeking a talented Labor & Employment Associate to join their California offices. This is a career-defining opportunity to build a sophisticated California-focused practice at a firm that has shaped some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record for over 75 years.
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
- Hybrid schedule based out of the firm's office
- Competitive compensation: $250,000 - $300,000 annually, contingent on experience
- Join a global platform with 1,800+ attorneys across 100+ offices worldwide
- Work alongside Chambers ranked labor and employment attorneys, in a culture that celebrates original thinking and rewards intellectual curiosity
- Strong associate development & mentorship program
- Leverage powerful proprietary technology and AI-driven tools that redefine how modern employment law is practiced
- High-caliber, high-stakes California work: substantive wage and hour, PAGA, and class action matters on behalf of sophisticated management-side clients
- A firm consistently recognized as a leading and innovative law practice - the gold standard in the L&E space
What You'll Do
You'll take on meaningful, complex work at the heart of California's most dynamic employment law market, including:
- Defending sophisticated wage and hour class and collective actions
- Handling PAGA representative actions - one of the most active and evolving areas of California litigation
- Advising and defending management-side clients across a broad range of labor and employment matters
- Collaborating directly with partners and clients on strategy, discovery, motion practice, mediations, and trial preparation
This is the kind of practice that builds real trial-ready L&E lawyers - with the platform, resources, and mentorship to match.
What You Bring
- 3-6 years of labor and employment law experience
- Substantial wage and hour, PAGA, and class action experience (required)
- Active California bar license
- Strong academic credentials and top-tier writing and analytical skills
- Ambition, curiosity, and a genuine interest in shaping the future of employment law
The Benefits
A generous benefits package including comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children; a superior 401(k) plan; ample time off; mental health and wellness programs; family building and caregiving support; generous paid parental leave; life and disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; and an employee referral bonus program.
Ready to build your California L&E practice on the most powerful platform in the industry?
If you're a driven wage and hour, PAGA, and class action litigator looking for the resources, sophistication, and innovation to elevate your career - this is the opportunity. Confidential inquiries welcome.
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