Trueline is seeking multiple Litigation Attorneys to join its teams in Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas. This is a critical growth and succession hire, with opportunities for experienced insurance defense and transportation litigators as well as a senior construction defect attorney who can bring deep substantive experience and meaningful trial capability.
What You'll Do as the Litigation Attorney:
- Independently manage an active civil litigation docket throughout Texas
- Handle insurance defense, personal injury, commercial transportation, construction defect, and related matters depending on experience
- Take ownership of approximately 25+ active cases
- Develop litigation strategy, risk assessments, and recommendations
- Maintain regular reporting and communication with clients, carriers, insureds, and assigning attorneys
- Draft and respond to discovery, pleadings, motions, and briefs
- Prepare insureds, witnesses, experts, and other parties for depositions
- Take and defend depositions
- Coordinate with engineers, experts, consultants, and other professionals as appropriate
- Draft and argue substantive motions
- Attend hearings, mediations, arbitrations, and other proceedings
- Negotiate settlements and advise on resolution strategy
- Prepare matters for trial and participate directly in trial proceedings
- Maintain comprehensive command of case facts, claims, strategy, exposure, and deadlines
- Mentor junior attorneys and coordinate with legal support professionals as appropriate for experience level
Must-Haves as the Litigation Attorney:
- Active Texas Bar license in good standing
- At least 5 years of substantive civil litigation experience for the core Associate openings
- Insurance defense, general personal injury, commercial transportation, or closely related experience for the core Associate profile
- Strong independent case-management experience
- Significant discovery and deposition experience
- Strong motion practice and legal writing
- Experience handling hearings and contested proceedings
- Strong client, carrier, and insured communication
- Strong risk-analysis and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent organization, responsiveness, and attention to detail
- Ability to consistently meet the firm's Associate billable expectation of 160 hours per month, or 1,920 hours annually
- Ability to work in-office and attend proceedings throughout Texas as required
Nice-to-Haves as the Litigation Attorney:
- 7+ years of litigation experience
- Significant construction defect litigation experience
- Trial experience
- First-chair or meaningful second-chair trial experience
- Commercial transportation or trucking defense experience
- Significant insurer-side litigation experience
- Texas federal court admissions
- Leadership or mentoring experience
- Portable business for highly experienced candidates
This Role Offers:
- Base salary of $140,000-$175,000 for the core 5-7 year Associate profile, depending on experience
- Base salary of $155,000-$215,000 for the 7+ year construction defect profile, depending on experience
- Potential flexibility in title and compensation for particularly experienced attorneys and candidates with meaningful portable business
- Lucrative production-based bonus program designed to meaningfully reward attorneys who exceed annual billable targets, with increasing earning potential as production grows
- Annual salary increases each December
- Medical insurance with approximately 90% of premium costs covered by the firm, plus dental and vision coverage
- Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and $50,000 in life insurance, with additional voluntary life insurance available
- 401(k) with a 3% employer match
- Sophisticated litigation, significant case ownership, and the resources of an established Texas-based firm with a national reach
Trueline and its clients are unabashed equal-opportunity employers committed to a diverse workforce. We welcome smart and ambitious applicants and recruit, refer, hire, place, and promote without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.
Skills Required
- Active Texas Bar license in good standing
- At least 5 years of substantive civil litigation experience
- Insurance defense, general personal injury, commercial transportation, or closely related experience
- Strong independent case-management experience
- Significant discovery and deposition experience
- Strong motion practice and legal writing
- Experience handling hearings and contested proceedings
- Strong client, carrier, and insured communication skills
- Strong risk-analysis and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent organization, responsiveness, and attention to detail
- Ability to meet the firm's Associate billable expectation of 160 hours per month or 1,920 hours annually
- Ability to work in-office and attend proceedings throughout Texas
- 7 or more years of litigation experience
- Significant construction defect litigation experience
- Trial experience
- First-chair or meaningful second-chair trial experience
- Commercial transportation or trucking defense experience
- Significant insurer-side litigation experience
- Texas federal court admissions
- Leadership or mentoring experience
- Portable business
What We Do
Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do? Everything we do revolves around ROI—improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business. Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management. Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements. Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports. Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges—like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity—it’s a good look on you. Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships. Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.
