Litigation Team Leader

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Facilitate weekly team meetings to evaluate scorecards, staffing, case mix, SLA health, projects, and issues, ensuring the team remains aligned, focused, and on track.

• Allocate work decisively and intelligently to maintain high throughput and clarity on priorities.

• Strengthen discipline in process execution by ensuring consistent adoption of matter plans, templates, and technology.

• Mentor attorneys and paralegals, providing direction, feedback, and persuasive guidance to drive the team towards achieving results.

• Manage client relationships for all matters handled by your team, focusing on driving satisfaction, retention, and opportunities for expanded engagement.

• Maintain a selective litigation docket, intervening where your strategic or advocacy presence can create the most significant impact.

• Address issues promptly as they arise, keeping matters progressing and resolving bottlenecks before they hinder progress.

⛳️ Requirements

• JD + active Florida Bar license.

• 7–10+ years of litigation experience, demonstrating leadership, judgment, and the ability to direct others.

• Strong track record in hearings, depositions, negotiations, and executing strategies.

• Ability to communicate persuasively and foster alignment around decisions.

• Comfort in managing multiple tasks simultaneously and making quick, informed decisions.

• Proven capability to enforce standards, enhance team performance, and maintain forward momentum.

• **Preferred Qualifications**

• First-chair trial experience.

• Experience in complex commercial, class action, consumer, or eminent domain litigation.

• Previous leadership or player-coach experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• You’ll practice within a client-service model designed to deliver consistent value:

• - **Conferring client-defined value:** Clarify objectives, success criteria, budget, timeline, and communication preferences at intake—and manage accordingly.

• - **Accessibility:** Maintain open communication lines; clients should never be left guessing how to reach us or when to expect updates.

• - **Efficiency & cost-effectiveness:** Staff matters intelligently, utilize technology and checklists to minimize friction, and provide early assessments for predictable spending.

• - **Delivering an experience while achieving results:** Make progress visible through alignment calls, status summaries, and documented decisions.

• - **Meaningful partnership:** Anticipate client needs, present options, and assist clients in planning the next goal beyond our most recent achievement.

• - **Exceptional communication based on listening:** Ask insightful questions, clearly summarize trade-offs, and write for business audiences.

• - **Accountability to goals:** Hold the team (and yourself) accountable to timelines, scopes, and outcomes; identify risks early and propose solutions.

• **Join a dynamic team that prioritizes professional growth and excellence in legal service. We offer competitive compensation, opportunities for professional development, and a supportive work environment committed to your success.

• ** We believe that the key to achieving outstanding work is to love what you do and respect those you work with. To learn more about our firm, visit our website Jimerson Birr.

• ** Our atmosphere and award-winning firm culture is collegial and professional, with a shared commitment to professional development that surpasses our peers. Discover more about our firm culture here: JB Firm Culture: JB FOR ME.

• ** You’ll encounter a challenging opportunity with a company that values its most valuable asset: YOU! At Jimerson Birr, we take pride in our people and their collective accomplishments. In 2021, for the seventh consecutive year, our firm was recognized as one of Florida’s “Best Companies to Work For” by Florida Trend Magazine. In recent years, we were also honored as one of the “Best Places to Work” by the Jacksonville Business Journal and recognized five times as one of the “50 Fastest Growing Companies.” Opportunities abound for those who can meet and exceed the expectations set for our team. Jimerson Birr comprises high-performing and professionally fulfilled individuals. We believe that a positive attitude, personal accountability, and a commitment to quality work will accelerate a talented person's path to success. Our environment and award-winning firm culture are collegial and professional, and our shared commitment to professional development is unparalleled among our contemporaries.

• ** Our core values are straightforward: Commitment to service; Commitment to quality; Commitment to results. We embody our core values, and we invite you to embrace them with us.**

***Jimerson Birr is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment, and all employees are treated during employment without regard to race, color, sexual orientation, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, gender identity, and marital status.*