Associate Attorney (Personal Injury/Insurance Coverage/Construction)
At Sandstrom Law Group (SLG), we create favorable outcomes by solving people’s hardest moments. Our client’s matters are important to us and we take pride in working hard, communicating regularly, and acting with the highest levels of integrity.
Working at SLG, you will work with a diligent team who works hard together while maintaining a healthy work life balance. You will be expected to take ownership of cases and improve yourself constantly. We have big firm experience but in a local firm. You will be trained and expected to work at the highest levels of legal professionalism. You will be held accountable to our 7 Core Values and will be expected to hold your teammates accountable as well. Our values are crucial on our mission to solve all of our clients' hardest moments.
We are looking for a long-term fit that can grow into partnership.
MANDATORY FOR APPLYING:
Bar license in Arizona (or willing to waive in immediately) with minimum 4 years' experience (no exceptions) practicing personal injury law, insurance law, or construction law. Experience can be on the Plaintiff side, defense side, or in house.
Deposition experience, motion drafting, and experience working with experts is mandatory.
Being proactive on files and owning the file is mandatory.
Must have no bar misconduct.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
Manage and work on Personal Injury, Insurance Litigation, and Construction matters, which includes overseeing the matter and working with staff.
Conduct intake calls with new clients.
Manage existing matters and communicate with clients.
Conduct discovery, including written discovery, depositions, and work with experts.
Conduct arbitrations whether as 1st chair or 2nd chair depending on experience.
Participate in weekly team meetings to evaluate and plan how to best advocate in each case.
Attend and occasionally present at monthly continuing education lunches in office with the team.
Participate in monthly one-on-one meetings with the Managing Partner.
OUR CORE VALUES:
At Sandstrom Law Group, we hold ourselves accountable to our core values that we live and breathe by. These values make up how we do the work here. They enable us to be who we are and stay committed to our team and our clients.
We approach every day with a positive outlook - We are proactive and optimistic in solving our clients' challenges. We are motivated to move cases along to reach the best possible outcome.
We take ownership and hold ourselves accountable - We trust each other on our team and regularly check in with each other to support progress on all matters. There is no ego here and we work as a team to reach our goals.
We do honest work - We do honest work to gain the trust of our clients and team. We communicate realistic expectations with our team and clients.
We have empathy - We see the human struggle in each of our clients, and we take upon ourselves their burden to guide them through a difficult challenge – they are real people, not just a number to us.
We do what we say we will do - We have integrity, we build trust with everyone we come in contact with.
We are passionate- We are dependable, disciplined and motivated to growth and totally committed to getting the best possible outcome for ourselves and others.
We constantly strive to gain more knowledge - We do CLE’s in house. We publish articles. We are always researching to solve each case with the best possible outcome.
WHY JOIN OUR TEAM:
Most law firms expect long hours and for you to give your life to them. That is not what we are about here at SLG. We care about our people because we are just normal humans helping people through difficult challenges. We are simply just great lawyers doing quality legal work together. We don’t expect 80-hour work weeks. There may be occasional times where you work a little longer but that is not our norm. We also offer hybrid work-from-home schedules where possible. While working here, we expect your commitment and your best work, and to be a good team player that adds to our great company culture.
If you have reached this point and resonated with the ideal Associate Attorney we are looking to join our team, it’s time for you to apply! Please submit your resume and writing sample to Katie@sandstromlawgroup.com. We look forward to hearing from you.
Flexible work from home options available.