• Location: Houston, Texas
• Type: Direct Hire
• Job #565
• Salary: $70.00

Texas based law firm with a growing office located in central Houston, not downtown, is hiring a civil litigation paralegal. Paralegal MUST have 5 years experience working on the defense side handling civil litigation cases. This position is onsite full time from 8:30 to 5:30 with a billable requirement of 120 hours per month.

Responsibilities include:

• Conduct research on relevant laws, regulations, and legal articles
• Prepare and revise legal documents such as affidavits, demands, discovery, etc.
• Communicate with various parts of the court system and outside legal personnel regarding case details, deadlines, and procedures
• Docket and eFile in bankruptcy, state, and federal courts
• Operate Trial Director – upload exhibits, upload and clip video depositions, run program during trials
• Working knowledge of e-discovery document review platforms such as Relativity and DISCO
• Experience with bankruptcy and complex commercial litigation a plus
• Order reports and records and monitor status of same
• Schedule hearings and depositions
• Secure court reporters for depositions
• Handle confidential and time-sensitive material
• Notarize documents
• Gather and arrange evidence and other legal documents for attorney
• Assist lawyers during trials by handling exhibits, taking notes, or reviewing trial transcripts
• Call clients, witnesses, lawyers, and outside vendors regarding meetings and depositions
• Draft correspondence and legal documents such as Discovery shells and subpoenas
• Track progress and assignment status of open matters
• Prepare for legal hearings, trials and client meetings
• Bates number and redact legal documents
• Create demonstratives
• Coordinate Service of Process
• Assist with Briefs and Memorandums

• Location: Houston, Texas
• Type: Direct Hire
• Job #562

Our client, a well-known defense firm is searching for a Paralegal with trucking litigation/insurance defense experience. 

Responsibilities include:

• Discovery responses:
  • Objective
  • Initial Disclosure
  • ROGS (interrogatory answers)
  • RFP (request for production) answers
  • RFA (request for admission)

• Retains all experts
• Orders all records
• Responsible for Counter Affidavits (CAFS)
• DWQ Subpoenas
• Response to various motions (i.e. Motion to Compel)

• Location: Houston, Texas
• Type: Direct Hire
• Job #561

Our client, an established law firm in Houston is seeking a senior level associate with a minimum of 5 years’ experience, preferrable in personal injury defense litigation.  1st or 2nd chair trial experience preferred.

Responsible for pleadings, motion practice, depositions, and trial. 

The firm provides a highly competitive salary and benefits; for the right candidate there is possibility of partnership development.

Salary: depends on experience but they are very competitive to market
Bonus: issued at year end depends on billable hours
Billable Hours target: 1,800-2,100
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, LTD, Simple IRA with Charles Schwab with 3% match semi-monthly

Please send resumes in MS Word format

• Location: Houston, Texas
• Type: Direct Hire
• Job #559

Local full service firm law firm located in central Houston is adding a bilingual (Spanish) plaintiff attorney to their team. 

Matters include commercial disputes, mass torts litigation, and personal injury litigation. 

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As an Associate you will assist more Senior Associates and Partners in managing cases. This position’s primary focus is personal 
injury.

•  Maintain client relationships throughout the legal process
•  Develop strategies in complex disputes
•  Interpret and summarize legal documents
•  Negotiate with outside parties on legal disputes and contractual issues
•  Appear in a court of law, arbitration, or other judicial tribunal on behalf of the firm’s client
•  Utilize knowledge of civil law principles and their application
•  Understand research methods, rules of evidence and conduct of court proceedings
•  Effectively deliver legal information in a workshop setting, hearing, or courtroom
•  Plan, organize, and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
•  Interpret, understand, and apply federal, state, and local laws and regulations
•  Write correspondence in a professional manner
•  Maintain confidential and sensitive information
•  Prepare, present and conduct cases of law, equity and appeals thereof effectively
•  Present statements of fact, law, and argument clearly and logically in written and oral form

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
•  Juris Doctor degree from accredited law school
•  Current Texas state bar admission
•  3 -5 years of experience
•  Bilingual. Must be fluent in Spanish.
•  Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
•  Collaborative, self-motivated, and highly professional
•  5%-10% travel required
•  Values and thrives in team-based approach
•  Has technical skills where new programs can be quickly learned
 

• Location: Houston
• Type: Direct Hire
• Job #554
• Salary: $230,000

Our client, a Houston based law firm that’s ranked in Chambers and Partners Research of World’s Leading Lawyers and one of Houston's top real estate firms, is searching for a Corporate Associate with at least 4 years of experience.

The Associate will assist Shareholders in servicing corporate clients and entrepreneurs in various business matters including corporate formation and governance, restructuring, contract negotiations, private equity, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and general business matters.  This includes mergers and acquisitions, private securities (including private placements and other sales and purchases of debt or equity securities); formation and representation of private equity funds, venture capital funds and hedge funds; entity selection and formation (including drafting complex limited liability company and partnership agreements and corporate charters having multiple classes of common and preferred stock); employment transactional agreements including executive employment agreements and incentive equity plans and general contract review.

The Associate will work with all of the Shareholders and work is rotated evenly! There's enough work that portable business is not necessary! Their billables are 1980 (versus 2300-3000 hours that some firms require)! They’re offering a very competitive base plus strong bonus potential and a hybrid work schedule. Excellent benefits including 12 weeks of paid pregnancy leave and 2 weeks paid paternity leave. This firm is very family oriented with attorneys and staff who have been at the firm for a number of years!
 

• Location: Houston, Texas
• Type: Direct Hire
• Job #553
• Salary: $230,000

Our client, a Houston based law firm that’s ranked in Chambers and Partners Research of World’s Leading Lawyers and one of Houston's top real estate firms, is searching for a Real Estate Associate with at least 4 years of experience.

Ideal candidate will have 4-7 years of relevant experience. All areas of their real estate practice are booming, and they need at least one more person to handle the deal flow that we have regularly coming in.

The real estate group handles the following types of matters:

• Large-scale transactions of land sale and purchase, financing, entity creation
• Structuring land ownership agreements, contractor negotiations, infrastructure development and issue management
• Mixed-use developments involving multiple parties and land types
• Public-private partnerships, expediting capital projects and reducing capital costs in complex and detailed real estate structures
• Tax deferred condemnation transactions
• Like kind exchanges including multiple forward and reverse deferred exchanges of real estate and oil and gas interests
• Timing of tax recognition for MUD reimbursement costs
• Landlord/Tenant Disputes
• Design & Construction Defects
• Boundary Disputes

The associate will work with all of the shareholders and work is rotated evenly! There's enough work that portable business is not necessary! Their billables are 1980 (versus 2300-3000 hours that some firms require)! They’re offering a very competitive base plus strong bonus potential and a hybrid work schedule. Excellent benefits including 12 weeks of paid pregnancy leave and 2 weeks paid paternity leave. This firm is very family oriented with attorneys and staff who have been at the firm for a number of years!