Consumer Finance Staff Counsel

LEWIS & ASSOCIATES  is a leader in providing Legal and Administrative staffing services.  We are a sole source staffing firm giving you convenient ways of working with us. We make every effort to ensure the highest degree of professionalism and integrity in the staffing process. We understand the demanding role of recruiting to source the highest level of legal professionals while incorporating proven, innovative, and successful recruiting techniques.

Our client is a full-service, international law firm that ranks among The American Lawyer’s top U.S. law firms. Their team has earned a solid reputation in complex litigation, regulatory and transactional work. They serve their clients’ interests first, and these clients range from Fortune 500 and middle market public and private companies to start-ups and emerging businesses. Through its wide-ranging international footprint, the firm has received numerous industry recognitions as a global leader in the middle market sector.

The firm team builds collaborative relationships and crafts creative solutions to solve problems - all designed and executed with long-term strategic goals in mind. Among the firm’s many strong practice areas are appellate, aviation, bankruptcy/restructuring/insolvency, business litigation and dispute resolution, class action litigation, consumer finance, corporate and finance transactions, employee benefits, energy, environmental, financial services, fund formation, health care and life sciences, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, international, labor and employment, mergers and acquisitions, privacy and cyber security, private equity, public finance, public law, real estate, regulatory, REIT, tax, technology, telecommunications, venture capital, and white collar criminal defense and internal investigations.

In the United States, the firm has an extremely well-recognized presence in Texas, the Northeast, the Midwest, the Southeast and the West Coast in addition to strong offices in Hong Kong and London. The Firm provides national and international clients service across a full range of practices and industries from offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Hartford, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Morristown, New Orleans, New York, Providence, Stamford, Sacramento, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and West Palm Beach.

Job Description:

We are seeking qualified candidates for a Staff Counsel position with a Consumer Finance Practice Group.  The position will be based in the Los Angeles office. The ideal candidates have at least 3 years of prior associate-level or staff counsel experience in California consumer finance litigation.

The ideal candidate will also possess the following:

• Strong writing and oral communication skills, and an ability to learn new substantive legal topics as needed are required;
• Knowledge of federal and California state court practice,
• Significant case management experience.

Essential Functions

Candidates for Staff Counsel positions must be able to provide effective and reliable legal services to clients and supervising attorneys.

Staff Attorneys are routinely required to:

• Provide thorough factual and legal research and analysis in pleadings, memoranda, and other written documents;
• Draft pleadings and other case documents;
• Manage multiple matters simultaneously;
• Competently and professionally communicate with clients and supervising attorneys;
• Argue at traditional and evidentiary hearings.

Requirements

Juris Doctor. Qualified candidates must be and remain licensed to practice law and in good standing in California.

Application materials: Resume and Law School Transcript (Please indicate class rank if known

All your information will be kept confidential.

Job ID: 0509171LL