Description:
A Full-Service Litigation and Business Law Firm is a national law firm with multiple locations across the United States, dedicated to our clients and the industries they serve.At A Full-Service Litigation and Business Law Firm we believe that diverse, equitable and inclusive teams lead to better outcomes. Husch Blackwell is committed to retaining, recruiting, developing, and promoting talented lawyers and business professionals with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We foster an engaged, diverse, and inclusive team culture of accountability and purpose that makes our Firm and our communities better.
We have an immediate opening in our Austin office for a Commercial Litigation Associate with three to five years of experience preferred. The candidate will work primarily with attorneys in the Financial Services & Capital Markets Strategic Business Unit.
The ideal candidate will have experience with all phases of complex commercial litigation including, but not limited to, experience conducting factual investigations and discovery, preparing pleadings, taking depositions, arguing motions, participating in mediation, and communicating with clients. Experience in both state and federal court is preferred, and experience in administrative matters and arbitrations is beneficial. Second-chair experience at trial or arbitration is preferred but not required. The ideal candidate will have some exposure to construction litigation.
The candidate must have an excellent academic record, superb writing skills, strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work well with a team, superior judgment, the ability to effectively handle multiple projects, and the ability to articulate legal strategies and courses of action. Judicial clerkship experience with a federal court is preferred but not required. Candidates must have a Texas bar license or commit to obtaining one as soon as possible.
