Labor & Employment Attorney

The PositionWorkplace Legal has an immediate opening for an experienced California employment lawyer with at least 2 full years of litigation experience preferably in wage-and-hour (both single plaintiff and class action) cases.In this position, your clients will be large corporations, small businesses, startups, and high-level executives and professionals. Your responsibilities will include interviewing and meeting with clients, developing litigation strategy, performing legal research, drafting pleadings, managing discovery, and drafting and responding to dispositive motions. You will get to take and defend depositions, argue motions, prepare witnesses and experts, and serve as first- or second-chair at trials. You'll also attend Labor Commissioner hearings, LWDA \"cure conferences\", arbitrations, and mediations.Although the majority of your work will be litigation-focused, you will also get to work on the firm's advice-and-counsel matters. You will be advising employers on high-stakes employee issues, drafting incentive compensation and other employment agreements, working with startups and small businesses on HR infrastructure buildouts, and advising C-Suite executives on offer packages, departure strategies, and severance negotiations.About Workplace LegalFounded in 2018, Workplace Legal is an AV-rated law firm of “Super Lawyers” that represents corporate and individual clients in California and New York in complex labor, employment, and HR matters. We work on interesting employment law cases and interact with smart, demanding clients, both as plaintiffs and defendants. We do “big law” quality work at Workplace Legal because our lawyers come from prestigious big law firms. But we left big law because we grew weary of the billable hour rat race, the required face time, and the office politics. We wanted a different way to practice law.The result was Workplace Legal.Founded on January 1, 2018, Workplace Legal exists to give smart, ambitious, and business-minded employment lawyers an alternative to the big law rat race. We pay well, we offer full benefits, we have a comparatively low billable hour requirement, and we offer a path to Shareholder status. We also are a fully remote firm, which we’ve been since our founding – long before other law firms started pretending to allow remote work. And we invest heavily in AI and other technology to make our lawyers more efficient and productive.This firm's business is booming, and we have set an ambitious growth plan for 2026-2027. Our goal is to add a Southern California office, hire 2 more attorneys in California (bringing our headcount to 5) and 1 more attorney in New York (bringing out headcount to 2) within the next 12 months. Now, we just need to find the right people -- smart, friendly, and ambitious people who like each other, who are self-sufficient and comfortable working remotely, who have a sense of humor bigger than their ego, and who want to build and grow a firm that practices both plaintiff-side and employer-side employment law at the highest levels.Compensation and BenefitsIn accordance with California’s pay transparency law, the expected salary range for this position is between $140,000/year - $200,000+/year for a 1,200 billable hour commitment. Your actual salary will depend on your experience and other job-related factors as permitted by law.In addition you to your salary, you will be eligible for quarterly bonuses based on revenue collected from your billed hours as well as on any cases you originate. We estimate that these bonuses could bring your total annual compensation to $165,000/year to $225,000/year (or more).Workplace Legal offers a full suite of benefits, including: fully paid health insurance (with prescription drug coverage), dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, and AD&D insurance; a JP Morgan/Vestwell 401(K) retirement plan with employer matching and profit sharing; unlimited paid time off; home office expense reimbursement; a monthly stipend towards your personal cell phone and home internet service; fully paid bar and MCLE expenses; and a comprehensive training and mentoring program.RequirementsTo be considered for this position, you must:Be licensed to practice law in CaliforniaHave 2+ years California employment litigation experienceLive in the San Francisco Bay Area (or be willing to travel here as necessary)Be analytical, smart, ambitious, and focused on delivering high quality legal workBe creative, flexible, and able to work independently and collaboratively