Associate - Employment - New York - $200k

Plaintiff Wage & Hour Associate | New York City – $200k

Location/Schedule: Lower Manhattan – Remote Schedule

Base Salary: $200,000

Practice: Plaintiff-Side Wage & Hour Class Actions and Complex Litigation

What stands out about this opportunity:

Join a Nationally Recognized Plaintiffs’ Powerhouse – Work with an expanding firm that has recovered more than $1.5 billion for employees and consumers nationwide.

Litigate Against Fortune 500 Companies – Handle complex state and federal class actions against regional, national and Fortune 500 businesses across multiple industries.

Build a Specialist Class-Action Practice – Gain direct exposure to wage-and-hour, discrimination, consumer protection and unfair business practice matters without requiring previous class-action experience.

Work on Multi-Million-Dollar Cases – The firm’s recent employment and class-action results include settlements ranging from $5.5 million to $10 million.

Join a Growing National Platform – Become part of the firm’s expanding New York office within a broader national platform spanning California, New York, Washington, New Jersey, Colorado and Oregon.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Handle plaintiff-side wage-and-hour and employment class actions.
• Manage matters through discovery, motion practice and trial preparation.
• Draft pleadings, motions, briefs and discovery documents.
• Take and defend depositions.
• Conduct oral arguments and appear in state and federal court.
• Assist with evidentiary hearings, mediation and trial preparation.
• Work closely with senior attorneys on complex, high-value litigation.

Core Requirements:

• Active New York Bar admission.
• Two to four years of civil litigation experience.
• Experience handling discovery, motion practice and depositions.
• Courtroom appearance and oral advocacy experience.
• Strong legal writing and case-management skills.
• Ability to travel occasionally.

Prior experience in plaintiff-side employment law, wage-and-hour litigation, class actions or complex multi-party disputes is advantageous but not essential.

If you are a junior litigator looking to develop specialist class-action experience, take on major corporations and work on genuinely high-impact cases, let’s have a confidential conversation.

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