General Liability Associate | Fully Remote, California | $140,000 to $190,000
The handrail had been painted eleven times. You can count them on the chip where somebody's ring caught it, eleven layers going back to a colour nobody has chosen since about 1974, and underneath all of it two bolts that stopped reaching anything solid a long time ago.
Nobody painted it badly. Everybody painted it fine. It's just that nobody ever took it off the wall first, and paint is very good at holding things in place right up until the afternoon somebody leans.
Fourteen months later you're the one working out which of the eleven coats matters, with a maintenance log that has a gap in it, a building manager who has told the story enough times to have a rhythm going, and a plaintiff's expert who has already put a confident number on the whole thing.
General liability defence pays $140,000 to $190,000 on this one, fully remote inside California.
Why this firm:
A national defence firm, so a bad file arrives with people on it
Remote, and they're relaxed about which office you sit nearest
General liability next to employment, product liability and workers comp teams, so the work doesn't narrow
Training run in house from the day you start rather than a thing you get invited to later
What you'll be doing:
Depositions of plaintiffs, building managers and whoever signed the maintenance log
Summary judgment on notice and open and obvious conditions
Written discovery, and the meet and confer letters that keep a judge out of it
Retaining premises safety experts, and pinning the opinion down before the other side does
Mediation briefs, and the call with the adjuster the day before
What you'll have:
2 or more years of California civil defence litigation
A deposition you've taken on your own
Admitted in California
Next Steps:
Worst case, you spend 15 minutes on the phone with a recruiter and find out your current job is better than you thought it was.
https://calendly.com/arranjaiswal/15min, or 646 540 9647 if you'd rather not wrestle with a booking link.
I'm Arran Jaiswal at Distinct North America. There are 100 plus recommendations at the bottom of my LinkedIn page if you're the checking sort.