Litigation

Litigators help clients prevent, manage, and resolve disputes. The work includes pleadings, motions, discoveries, injunctions, trials, appeals, arbitrations, investigations, and settlement negotiations across commercial and regulatory contexts.

Lawyers assess claims, develop strategy, draft court materials, manage evidence, prepare witnesses, negotiate resolutions, and advocate before courts or tribunals.

• Research case law and prepare legal memos
• Draft chronologies, pleadings, affidavits, and motion materials
• Review productions and organize evidence
• Observe discoveries, hearings, mediations, or trial preparation

Best fit for students who like writing, argument, facts, strategy, oral advocacy, and learning through adversarial problem solving.

Litigation has intense pushes before filings, discoveries, injunctions, hearings, and trials. Some periods are more predictable than deal work, but urgent disputes can move quickly.

• Writing or advocacy experiences that shaped your interest
• How you analyze messy facts
• Interest in commercial disputes or a specific litigation niche

• What advocacy opportunities do students usually see?
• How are juniors trained on discovery and evidence management?
• What types of disputes are most active in this office?

Summary is for career exploration and uses public practice descriptions plus Firmlign mock firm data.