Modern Family Law is seeking a hybrid Family Law Associate Attorney to help launch and grow its new Atlanta office. This role offers the opportunity to shape the culture of the Southeast expansion while handling a variety of family law cases with direct client contact and strong support for professional development.
What You'll Do
- Handle a variety of family law cases, such as divorce, custody, and child and spousal support
- Engage in direct client communications
- Draft legal documents
- Handle depositions
- Handle court appearances
- Handle mediations
- Thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Manage multiple responsibilities with attention to detail
- Work collaboratively within a team-oriented setting
- Ensure collective success of the team
What We're Looking For
- Adept at handling a variety of family law cases, such as divorce, custody, and child and spousal support
- Comfortable with direct client communications, drafting legal documents, and handling depositions, court appearances, and mediations
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Ability to manage multiple responsibilities with attention to detail
- Ability to work collaboratively within a team-oriented setting
Technical Stack
- Cutting-edge technology
Team & Environment
- Team-oriented setting
Benefits & Compensation
- Remote First Setting with Brick & Mortar Space Available (In-person as required by courts & clients)
- Low billable hours requirement (100 per month)
- Direct client contact
- The ability to truly develop substantive litigation skills early in your career
- The satisfaction of meaningfully and continuously impacting people’s lives
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Cutting-edge technology
- Learning and development support, including onsite and in-person
- Work From Anywhere - eligible after 6 months
- Health insurance
- Optional Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Dental insurance
- Vision care
- Life insurance
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Vacation
- Sick time
- Employee assistance program
- Voluntary accident insurance
- Voluntary life insurance
- Voluntary disability
- Voluntary long-term care
- Voluntary critical illness and cancer insurance
- Pet insurance
- Commuter and transit benefit programs (available in certain markets)
Compensation: $85,000 - $135,000 annually (base salary plus potential commissions based on billable hours and collections); actual pay adjusted based on experience, location, billable hour expectations, and other job-related factors.
Work Mode
- Hybrid role based in Atlanta
- Remote First Setting with Brick & Mortar Space Available; in-person as required by courts & clients
- Work From Anywhere eligible after 6 months
ADA Compliance: All candidates and incumbents are expected to perform the duties as assigned so long as they can meet the expectations set forth with or without reasonable accommodations. Should a candidate or incumbent require accommodation, they need to advise the Director of People & Culture in advance.
