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.

Litigation Paralegal - 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, 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 $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/Twitter and LinkedIn.

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro is seeking a Litigation Paralegal to join our practice in our Berkeley office.

Responsibilities:

Prepare pleadings, correspondence, and other legal documents.
Assist in the preparation of legal memoranda, including state, federal, and appellate pleadings; cite-check; apply Blue book rules; format per local court rules. Proofread and finalize documents for electronic filing or service on opposing counsel.
Gather facts, documents, exhibits, and evidence to assist in the initiation of legal actions, discovery, or motion practice.
Assist with discovery requests and responses; conduct document searches; organize documents and coordinate document productions, including Bates-numbering, redaction, production and privilege logs, and e-discovery.
Maintain and search databases.
Work with clients and class members to gather and convey information.
Prepare materials for oral arguments, depositions, mediations, and trial.
Organize exhibits, witness materials, prepare trial notebooks and all other supporting documents; coordinate trial logistics.
Perform administrative functions, such as assist in maintaining a paperless office by scanning and filing documents in a document management system; perform word processing functions; perform filing, e-filing, service, and mailing of pleadings, documents, correspondence, and courtesy copies; calendaring deadlines.

Requirements and Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or paralegal certificate preferred with minimum 3-5 years’ experience as a litigation paralegal.
Understands complex legal concepts and terminology.
Knowledge of the rules regulating paralegals/legal assistants.
In-depth 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.
Ability to perform legal research using LexisNexis or Westlaw.
Ability to draft pleadings and discovery.
Ability to work independently, organize and prioritize workload, and adapt to changing priorities.
Ability to follow 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.

Salary Range $26-$44 per hour
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 Paralegal” in the subject line.

Litigation Paralegal - Boston

The Boston office of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP is looking for a Paralegal to join our team. We’re a collection of smart, dedicated, and creative lawyers and staff working on some of the most high profile, cutting edge pharmaceutical litigation in the country. For example, we recently received final approval for a settlement valued at hundreds of millions of dollars with the makers of cholesterol drug Zetia regarding claims that they unlawfully delayed generic competition. In 2022, our team secured a settlement valued at $453 million in the Glumetza Antitrust Litigation, the largest U.S. antitrust settlement of the year, and a settlement valued at $340 million in the Ranbaxy Antitrust Litigation, the second-largest — both resolved mere weeks before trial. We don’t always win but we don’t give up.

We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards, take pride in originating, aggressively working, and trying cases, and genuinely like each other. Some of us have never (by choice!) had another legal field job anywhere else.

About the Firm:

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 28 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.

Litigation Paralegal Responsibilities:

Our office investigates and originates interesting and important cases, typically serves as lead or co-lead class counsel, and works collaboratively in the office and with co-counsel to push cases aggressively through discovery, briefing, and trial. We’re looking for someone to join our team to help us do all that and with the highest caliber work. We work hard and expect a lot from members of our team. We also find real meaning in the work we do and in doing it well.

Litigation Paralegals are responsible for helping us from the inception of a case to the final distribution of funds to class members. Throughout a case, you’ll prepare pleadings and other filings and correspondence, cite-check, use the Blue Book, perform filing services, calendar deadlines and help keep the team on track, conduct document searches, prepare materials for production, organize and coordinate document reviews, help with legal research, prepare materials for oral arguments, work as part of trial teams in the lead-up to and at trial, assist in settlement and post-settlement allocation and distribution work, and in general be a core part of the case team. The expectation is that paralegal/legal support duties comprise the majority of time and responsibilities, but you may be asked to help with administrative functions from time to time to help the team.

Requirements and Qualifications:

Ability to work independently, be resourceful, organize and prioritize workload, and adapt to changing priorities
Results-oriented, self-starter, with a high level of initiative
Ability to shift focus, perform under tight deadlines, and maintain patience in high pressure situations
Excellent interpersonal, organizational, planning, verbal and written communication skills including spelling, grammar and proofreading skills
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel), and Adobe
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment Must manage highly confidential information with professionalism and unquestionable integrity
Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new skills and contribute to our office and our projects in new ways
Bonus of paralegal certificate, prior litigation paralegal experience, and/or knowledge of federal court rules and procedures, federal ECF system, Westlaw/LexisNexis, Blue Booking, etc – but all of that can be learned

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