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Associate Attorney – Appellate Practice
Goodell DeVries is seeking an Associate Attorney to join our growing Appellate Practice Group. The ideal candidate will have a passion for legal research and writing, own books by Bryan Garner, Ross Guberman, and Matthew Butterick, and have an existing—possibly even strong—opinion on the writing styles of Justices Kagan, Roberts, Ginsburg, and Gorsuch.
The successful candidate must be a gifted legal writer who is eager to continue developing these skills. The firm favors candidates with appellate and federal clerkship experience or sinking feeling that BigLaw’s mass-attrition business model does not fit their career goals and life. The ideal candidate wants to develop an appellate practice while working closely with excellent trial lawyers (often defending health care providers) and is ready to practice in Maryland, with D.C. and Virginia bar admission a strong plus.
Goodell DeVries’s Appellate Practice Group is a place where your inner nerd can blossom and legal work can be fun again. Work with smart, considerate people who appreciate your talents and want to help you grow them. The best lawyers are happy lawyers.
Employees enjoy a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, the potential for performance-based bonuses, a great work environment, an on-site fitness center, and maternity/paternity benefits. There’s even free in-building parking near the Inner Harbor.
Associate Attorney – Medical Malpractice Defense
Many law-firm Litigation Associates do all the right things but miss out on the career experiences that they envision and deserve: appearing in court for trials and hearings, writing important motions, taking and defending depositions, interacting regularly with clients and experts. They also want clients whose core mission goes beyond being profitable but makes a real difference in people’s lives. But they don’t want to pursue those personal goals at the cost of not working with a diverse array of top-tier attorneys to teach and mentor them. And is it too much to ask that the partners, associates, and staff be really nice, decent, reasonable people who truly appreciate you? And is there healthcare and free parking by the Inner Harbor? Does such a job even exist? It does.
Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann in Baltimore has been defending the region’s hospitals and healthcare heroes for decades in many of their most important civil litigation matters. It is the only firm with a Tier 1 rating in Chambers USA for Maryland Medical Malpractice Defense. The work is challenging and important. It requires a passion for healthcare in all its parts: the medicine, the care providers, and the patients. It also requires a passion for the core components of private civil litigation: trial work, legal research and substantive brief-writing, discovery, depositions, expert witnesses. If this is exactly what you wanted your litigation career to be and you find yourself getting something less than that, don’t settle any longer. Join us.
Benefits include:
- Free parking
- On-site fitness center
- Paid parental leave
- Excellent health benefits
- Competitive salaries with bonus opportunities
- Collaborative culture
Maryland Bar membership required; D.C. and/or Virginia Bar membership preferred. If not already licensed to practice in D.C., candidate must be willing to become barred. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. Candidates must apply directly; no third-party/recruiter submissions will be accepted. EOE.
Please include a writing sample with your CV. You may email this directly to Steph Kinnear at skinnear@gdldlaw.com.
To request a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact Steph Kinnear at skinnear@gdldlaw.com.
Legal Administrative Assistant
The Legal Administrative Assistant (LAA) provides important administrative support to assigned attorneys as a member of the overall litigation defense team. The LAA completes a variety of secretarial and administrative support tasks such as preparing and filing legal documents, maintaining legal files, composing and proofreading correspondence, and managing attorney calendars.
- Provides administrative/ secretarial support to assigned attorneys.
- Client interaction: Answers incoming phone calls and facilitates handling of requests for information in a professional and prompt manner.
- Document production and maintenance: Accurately drafts correspondence per the attorney(s) direction, including but not limited to proofreading, sending, and saving correspondence to the firm’s file storage system. Works from dictation, rough drafts, or notes provided by others, and may handle preliminary research of information needed for completing correspondence.
- File management: Opens new client matter files. Organizes, tracks, and maintains documents in client files, including closing and storing files following the resolution of cases according to firm policies.
- Calendar Management: Ensures all relevant dates and deadlines are accurately and promptly reflected on each attorney’s calendar.
- Time Entry: Accurately enters billable time on behalf of assigned timekeepers by the required deadline.
- Reporting: Maintains attorney case lists, making regular updates as needed. May assist with routine client reporting at the attorney’s request.
- Provides assistance to attorneys on various projects.
- May make travel arrangements and prepare travel expense reports.
- Other duties as assigned.
Key Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- High School Diploma, or equivalent.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience providing administrative or secretarial support in a fast-paced environment. Applicants may substitute higher education for some of this required experience.
- Microsoft Office proficiency, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- The ability to communicate effectively and professionally with internal and external clients on all levels.
- Excellent typing, grammatical, and proofreading skills, and attention to detail.
- The ability to work at a computer, sit, stand, and occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be available to applicants with disabilities. To inquire, please reach out to Human Resources.
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Goodell DeVries employees enjoy a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, the potential for performance-based bonuses, a great work environment, an on-site fitness center, and maternity/paternity benefits.
EOE.
For confidential consideration, please email your resume to Steph Kinnear at skinnear@gdldlaw.com. Please note that recruiter/third-party candidates will not be accepted.
To learn more about careers at Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP, visit our Careers page.
Goodell DeVries is committed to diversity and inclusion and has been recognized by Law360 as one of the top law firms for women in the United States.
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