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Posted: 16-Mar-22
Location: San Francisco, California
Type: Full Time
Required Education: Doctorate
Categories:
Attorney
At Nixon Peabody, our priority is to attract, retain, and promote talented individuals from a wide range of racial, ethnic, social, economic, religious, and personal backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations. Therefore, we encourage talented individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply.
Our full-service L&E practice delivers creative, specialized, and real-world solutions to keep our clients’ businesses moving forward. Our diverse team of more than 60 labor and employment attorneys cover every angle of the workplace: from safety regulations to employee use of social media.
A career at Nixon Peabody is the opportunity to do work that matters. It’s a chance to use your knowledge to shape what’s ahead, to innovate, to learn at a firm that taps into the power of collaboration and collective thinking.
Our Labor & Employment Group is seeking to hire a mid-level associate to be based in our San Francisco office. California State Bar admission is required. The ideal candidate will have three to five years of experience in handling employment litigation and have some experience in traditional labor law and counseling management clients. Wage and hour experience and managing cases independently is a plus. We pride ourselves in providing both formal and informal training, mentorship and hands-on experience by staffing our cases leanly and efficiently. Associates work directly with partners on matters and often have direct contact with clients.
Qualified candidates will have strong academic credentials, superb judgment and communication skills, and a commitment to providing excellent client services. We seek self-starters who thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
Nixon Peabody LLP is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer: Disability / Female / Gender Identity / Minority / Sexual Orientation / Veteran. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
To comply with Federal law, Nixon Peabody participates in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are verified through this electronic system established by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) to confirm their identity and employment eligibility. Please refer to the Notice of E-Verify Participation and the Right to Work posters on the Nixon Peabody Careers page for more information.
All applicants for employment with NP, unless they receive an approved exemption as an accommodation for a medical issue or sincerely held religious belief, must be “Up to Date” with respect to their COVID-19 vaccinations by their hire date. “Up to Date” currently means that the applicant has completed the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech primary vaccine series, plus a booster vaccine, if eligible, or the Johnson & Johnson Janssen one dose primary vaccine, plus a booster vaccine, if eligible.