Litigation Attorney - Workers' Compensation

Cranfill Sumner LLP (Charlotte) is seeking an attorney with 1-4 years’ litigation experience and an interest in North Carolina workers' compensation litigation. Candidates must have excellent written and oral advocacy skills; provide top-notch client service; have experience with witness interviews, hearings, depositions, mediations; plus, enjoy working in a team environment where self-starters excel.  Candidate should be ready to handle an active caseload.  Employees enjoy generous benefits and leave policies and a flexible remote work policy.  Candidates should be NC licensed and practice ready. 

ABILITIES/ KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS

• Provide excellent client service through written and verbal communication, including evaluations, summaries, strategies, advocacy, updates, and counsel
• Propound, respond to and assess written discovery and document production
• Communicate in person and by telephone, email, etc. with opposing counsel to negotiate issues, including settlement and pre-mediation and pre-trial disclosures
• Prepare for and attend mediations, negotiate settlement, and prepare settlement documents
• Hearing preparation including strategy; review and analysis of all factual and legal issues relating to compensability and disability 
• Preparation of Pre-Trial Agreements, witnesses, exhibits, pre-Hearing and post-Hearing motions and supporting briefs
• Appear before the industrial commission for hearings to present opening statements, conduct direct and cross examination; argue/defend motions; and deliver oral arguments
• Conduct and defend depositions, including preparation of clients and expert witnesses, and preparation for examination of physicians and adverse expert witnesses
• Prepare contentions, pleadings, motions and briefs, and legal research for complex matters in industrial commission and state court
• Collaboration and Communication appropriate for successful team-oriented work.
• Efficiency and Organization to manage an active caseload.
• General Technology Skills, e.g., GenAI; Billing Software; Microsoft Suite; Outlook; Legal Research