Careers

If you are interested in applying for an open position at Hagens Berman, please send your resume and a cover letter to Heather Enoki at [email protected]. All employment inquiries will be kept confidential. Only selected candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.

Staff

We hire exceptional people with positive attitudes who enjoy working as a team and have the desire to contribute to a common goal. We value initiative, a team spirit and a willingness to contribute to the firm's overall success. We encourage staff to grow in their knowledge and experience which provides greater job satisfaction and the opportunity for more responsibility. Dignity and respect between all members of our firm are valued aspects of our environment.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Hagens Berman has long had a policy of providing Equal Employment Opportunities for all persons in employment. It is the policy of the firm that all qualified applicants for employment will be recruited, hired and assigned on the basis of merit without regard to race, creed, color, gender, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or veteran status. The employment policies and practices of the firm have, and will continue, to ensure that all qualified employees are treated equally with no discrimination in recruitment, placement, compensation, opportunities for advancement (including promotions and transfers), training, demotion, termination, layoff recall, employee benefits, discipline and participation in all Hagens Berman-sponsored employee activities.

Please send your application including an attached resume and cover letter to [email protected].

Hagens Berman is currently seeking to fill the following positions:

Litigation Associate Attorney - Berkeley

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP is a national class-action and complex litigation law firm that takes on the world's largest corporations and entities, fighting for the rights of consumers, investors, whistleblowers, employees, institutions and others. In the firm's 27 years of practice, Hagens Berman has earned a reputation as one of the most feared plaintiffs firms in the nation, willing to go above and beyond in the fight for our clients’ rights. Our determination and expert skill are second to none in the plaintiffs' bar, and our opponents know our name well.

Founded in 1993, Hagens Berman is an international plaintiffs’ law firm, that has recovered more than $320 billion for our clients across our various practice areas. Our legal team has achieved record-breaking settlements and believes in helping those most in need. The firm's tenacious spirit has earned it prestigious awards, including repeatedly being named one of the top 10 plaintiffs’ firms in the US.

Read more about our cases, history, success record, and awards. Follow the firm’s progress on Facebook, X and LinkedIn.

Hagens Berman is currently seeking a Litigation Associate Attorney for its office in Berkeley, CA

Core Responsibilities:

Investigate and vet potential new cases for technical and legal issues
Responsible for having a deep knowledge and understand all the facts in each case that is assigned
Ability to review, summarize, and highlight evidence gathered from documents
Research legal facts and regulations for new cases
Conduct all phases of civil discovery, including drafting written discovery, conducting meet and confers, and preparing for and conducting depositions
Draft briefs, memoranda, and other legal documents
Prepare for hearing, trial, and depositions
Help identify and work with experts
Identify, select and prepare expert witnesses

Requirements and Qualifications:

J.D. with 2-3 years’ litigation experience (class action and antitrust experience strongly preferred).
Highly accomplished academic and employment credentials (federal law clerk experience a plus)
Exceptional analytical skills with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
Superior writing, drafting and oral advocacy skills
Excellent interpersonal, organizational, planning, verbal and written communication skills
Results oriented, self-starter, with a high level of initiative
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with internal and external contacts at all levels
Ability to work independently, shift focus, adapt to changing priorities, and maintain patience in high pressure situations
Must manage highly confidential information with professionalism and unquestionable integrity
Proficient in Microsoft Office (including Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel)

Salary Range 120K-180K
Full time employees become eligible for several benefits on the first of the month following hire, including medical, dental, vision, HSA, life insurance, AD&D, EAP, 401K, LTD and STD. Also available is a voluntary FSA, and transit and parking benefits

Please send resume and cover letter to [email protected] and include “Berkeley Litigation Associate” in the subject line.

Paralegal - Pasadena, CA

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP is a national class-action and complex litigation law firm that takes on the world's largest corporations and entities, fighting for the rights of consumers, employees, student-athletes, investors, whistleblowers, and others. In the firm's 31 years of practice, Hagens Berman has earned a reputation as one of the most feared plaintiffs’ firms in the nation, willing to go above and beyond in the fight for our clients’ rights. Our determination and expert skill are second to none in the plaintiffs' bar, and our opponents know our name well.

Founded in 1993, Hagens Berman has recovered settlements valued at more than $322 billion for our clients across our various practice areas. Our legal team has achieved record-breaking settlements and believes in helping those most in need. The firm's tenacious spirit has earned it prestigious awards, including repeatedly being named one of the top 10 plaintiffs’ firms in the US. Read more about our cases, history, success record, and awards. Follow the firm’s progress on Facebook, X/Twitter and LinkedIn.

The Pasadena office of Hagens Berman is looking for a bright and motivated paralegal to join our team. We’re a collection of smart, dedicated, and creative lawyers and staff working on some of the most high quality, cutting edge litigation in the country. We’re really proud of the work we do and need another paralegal to help with our busy caseload, as well as some administrative tasks. While our office is small with three lawyers and a senior paralegal, we work closely with the other offices at Hagens Berman so you would also be interfacing with attorneys and paralegals across the country. We pride ourselves on having a pleasant and collegial, no-drama office, so if you think you might be a good fit, please apply! And if you are a quick learner please apply even if you don’t know how to do everything we list below or have every qualification, because we will teach you!

Responsibilities:

Assisting in preparing briefs for filing, including formatting to comply with court rules, cite-checking, conforming to stylistic preferences, and proofreading.
Pulling and preparing exhibits in support of briefing and drafting corresponding declarations.
Preparing redacted versions of documents based on confidentiality designations and motions to file unredacted versions under seal.
Filing and serving court documents, including responsibility for sending hard copy courtesy copies and email service of proposed order to judges.
Assisting with investigation on potential cases.
Drafting shell discovery and correspondence.
Coordinating document productions, including bates-numbering and redactions.
Organizing and tracking documents produced in discovery, including maintenance of production logs and indexing of certain documents.
Performing searches for documents produced in discovery in electronic document review system.
Preparing materials for oral arguments, depositions, mediations, and trial.
Drafting and tracking pro hac vice applications.
Assisting in maintaining a paperless internal filing system, including scanning and filing of documents in document management system.
Calendaring legal deadlines.
Keeping track of time worked for purposes of cost recovery.
Some administrative tasks including answering calls to main line; setting up court reporters, court calls, and conference calls; making travel arrangements; preparing expense reports and credit card reconciliations; ordering office supplies as needed; coordinating equipment maintenance/repair; and entering time for attorneys.
Other duties as assigned.

Requirements and Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree with 2-5 years of experience as a litigation paralegal.
Ability to understand legal concepts and terminology.
Knowledge of the rules regulating paralegals.
Knowledge of state/federal/appellate court rules and procedures, and the skills to find and understand those in multiple jurisdictions.
Knowledge of state/federal/appellate court ECF e-filing systems, and the ability to learn e-filing systems in other jurisdictions.
Knowledge of Westlaw and LexisNexis.
Ability to work independently, organize and prioritize workload, and adapt to changing priorities.
Ability to follow precise written and verbal instructions.
Ability to perform under tight deadlines and maintain patience in high-pressure situations.
Strong working knowledge of advanced functions of Microsoft Office (including Word, Outlook and Excel), Adobe Acrobat, and other litigation support applications.
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
Excellent interpersonal, organizational, planning, verbal, and written communication skills.
Must manage highly confidential information with professionalism and unquestionable integrity.

Salary Range: $75,000 - $100,000 depending on experience, plus bonus.

Full time employees become eligible for several benefits on the first of the month following hire, including medical, dental, vision, HSA, life insurance, AD&D, EAP, 401K, LTD and STD. Also available is a voluntary FSA, and transit and parking benefits.

Please send resume and cover letter to [email protected] and include “Pasadena Litigation Paralegal” in the subject line.

Staff Attorney Manager - Seattle

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP is a national class-action and complex litigation law firm that takes on the world's largest corporations and entities, fighting for the rights of consumers, employees, student-athletes, investors, whistleblowers, and others. In the firm's 31 years of practice, Hagens Berman has earned a reputation as one of the most feared plaintiffs’ firms in the nation, willing to go above and beyond in the fight for our clients’ rights. Our determination and expert skill are second to none in the plaintiffs' bar, and our opponents know our name well.

Hagens Berman is currently seeking a Staff Attorney Manager for its office in Seattle, WA.

Core Responsibilities:

Manage large-scale document review projects from end-to-end, including working with case teams to develop document review protocols, processes and workflow, onboarding review attorneys, coordinating training, implementing document review assignments, performance management, QC and maintenance of rating and coding accuracy, managing review memo process, managing implementation of second-level deliverables such as chronologies, witness kits, and Storybuilder.
Consult with case teams regarding review of incoming productions to confirm compliance with Stipulated ESI Protocols and Protective Orders.
Consult with case teams regarding development of ESI Protocols and Stipulated Protective Orders.
Consult with case teams regarding implementation of Everlaw’s Technology Assisted Review (TAR) tools such as Predictive Coding and Clustering.
Consult with case teams regarding creation of effective search terms and implementation of complex database searches based on search terms, including preparation of search term reports and implementation of review assignments for various projects, including deposition preparation and targeted issue reviews,.
Work with Litigation Technology Specialists on initiatives related to in-house training and development of processes and protocols related to Everlaw an e-discovery.
Work with Litigation Technology Specialists and Everlaw contacts to maintain positive relationship and implement feature requests that will benefit the firm and focus on plaintiffs’ substantive document review tools.
Assist with evaluating document reviewers productivity and writing staff attorney performance feedback.

Qualifications:

J.D. with 5-7 years of civil litigation/discovery experience in federal court
Familiarity with electronic discovery issues
Highly accomplished academic and employment credentials
Exceptional analytical skills with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
Superior writing, drafting and oral advocacy skills
Excellent interpersonal, organizational, planning, verbal and written communication skills
Results oriented, self-starter, with a high level of initiative
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with internal and external contacts at all levels
Ability to work independently, shift focus, adapt to changing priorities, and maintain patience in high pressure situations
Must manage highly confidential information with professionalism and unquestionable integrity
Proficient in Microsoft Office (including Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel)

Salary Range: 90-110K Annual

Please send resume and cover letter to [email protected] and include “Staff Attorney Manager” in the subject line.