Trueline is seeking a Litigation Associate (4th to 5th Year) to join its team in Boston, MA, or New York, NY. This role offers high-visibility work on complex, high-stakes commercial disputes and the opportunity to grow with seasoned partners across multiple litigation areas.
What You’ll Do as the Litigation Associate:
- Manage key phases of complex commercial litigation, including written and document discovery.
- Conduct legal research and draft clear, persuasive memoranda, pleadings, and both dispositive and non-dispositive motions.
- Take and defend depositions and assist with witness preparation.
- Support all aspects of trial preparation and strategy in coordination with partners.
- Collaborate with team members on cross-border matters, corporate disputes, shareholder and derivative actions, fraud cases, and other sophisticated commercial litigation.
Must-Haves as the Litigation Associate:
- Admission to the bar in the state of your primary office (Massachusetts or New York).
- 4th to 5th year litigation experience at a law firm or through clerkships, handling complex commercial cases.
- Hands-on experience with discovery, drafting and arguing motions, depositions, and trial preparation.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and strong analytical ability.
- Proven ability to manage case responsibilities independently and collaboratively with partners.
Nice-to-Haves as the Litigation Associate:
- Experience on both plaintiff and defense sides of commercial litigation.
- Background with cross?border disputes and multi?jurisdictional matters.
- Experience working across different litigation specialties beyond core commercial work.
This Role Offers:
- Competitive salary range of 225,000 to 325,000.
- Exposure to high-profile, complex commercial disputes with senior litigation partners.
- Supportive, collaborative environment with opportunities for professional growth.
- A platform to take ownership of meaningful work and build a robust litigation practice.
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.
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