Litigation Counsel / Senior Attorney
For experienced litigators who want meaningful case ownership, collaborative strategy, and work that demands serious legal judgment.
Lieb at Law, P.C. is a boutique litigation firm for experienced attorneys who want to run meaningful matters, exercise legal judgment, and build long-term careers inside a collaborative litigation practice.
This is not a role for attorneys who want passive file maintenance, repetitive workflows, or siloed case management.
This is for litigators who want ownership.
Our firm handles plaintiff and defense disputes involving commercial litigation, employment matters, discrimination claims, business ownership conflicts, fiduciary disputes, real estate litigation, brokerage disputes, regulatory matters, arbitration, appellate litigation, and strategically complex legal conflicts.
We litigate against solo practitioners, regional firms, institutional counsel, insurance defense teams, and large firms.
The office is in Smithtown. The litigation is much bigger.
This Is a Litigation Leadership Role
You are expected to independently drive litigation matters.
This includes directing the work of associates, paralegals, and operational support professionals to ensure matters move efficiently, strategically, and with clear accountability.
Lieb at Law has a highly competent support team. Senior attorneys are expected to know how to leverage that infrastructure effectively rather than operating as isolated individual contributors.
Drive deadlines, strategy execution, discovery, motion practice, client communication, and case progression.
Evaluate leverage, procedural posture, case value, legal risk, and the best path toward resolution or escalation.
Respond when facts change, opponents move, clients need direction, or procedural opportunities emerge.
Run cases while collaborating with senior counsel and partners on major strategic decisions.
Ownership here does not mean isolation.
While you may run your matters day-to-day, significant strategic decisions are collaborative.
Senior attorneys work with partners and other experienced litigators to sharpen strategy, challenge assumptions, identify stronger legal authority, and improve positioning.
You are expected to bring judgment. You are also expected to want collaboration that improves outcomes.
The goal is not autonomy for ego. The goal is getting closer to the win.
What You Will Actually Lead
This is substantive litigation leadership.
Senior attorneys are expected not only to perform high-level legal work, but to direct the execution of matters by collaborating with associates, paralegals, and support personnel so that strategy translates into efficient work product.
Depending on your background and the matters assigned, responsibilities may include:
Case Strategy & Litigation Ownership
- Evaluating new matters
- Analyzing claims, defenses, and procedural posture
- Venue and jurisdiction analysis
- Determining filing strategy
- Assessing leverage opportunities
- Developing litigation roadmaps
- Identifying pressure points for resolution or escalation
Motion Practice
- Leading motion strategy
- Drafting and revising dispositive motions
- Motions to dismiss
- Summary judgment motions
- Preliminary injunction applications
- Emergency motion practice
- Discovery motion practice
- Appellate briefing where applicable
- Identifying controlling authority and procedural advantages
Discovery Leadership
- Drafting discovery demands
- Responses and objections
- Deficiency enforcement
- Subpoena strategy
- ESI strategy
- Document review oversight
- Expert discovery management
- Discovery motion practice
- Building evidentiary records that support dispositive strategy
Depositions
- Preparing witnesses
- Defending depositions
- Taking depositions
- Transcript analysis
- Impeachment development
- Tactical deposition sequencing
Team Leadership & Matter Management
- Directing associates on legal research, drafting, and case execution
- Working closely with junior attorneys on motion practice strategy and revision
- Overseeing discovery execution and factual development
- Leveraging paralegals and operational support to move litigation efficiently
- Assigning work strategically based on competence and case needs
- Maintaining accountability for the overall quality and timing of work product
Advocacy & Trial Strategy
- Hearings
- Court conferences
- Oral arguments
- Arbitrations
- Mediations
- Trial preparation
- Trial execution
- Appellate support
This role is expected to be capable of courtroom advocacy.
Strong litigation judgment also includes recognizing when a matter benefits from dedicated trial collaboration.
Certain cases may call for dedicated trial counsel working alongside the litigation team to maximize outcome.
The objective is not ego-driven ownership of every function. The objective is winning.
Client Management
- Advising clients on litigation risk
- Explaining procedural posture
- Communicating strategic recommendations
- Managing expectations
- Balancing legal strategy against business realities
- Helping clients make rational litigation decisions
The Types of Matters You Will Handle
Our matters may involve:
- Commercial litigation
- Breach of contract disputes
- Business torts
- Ownership disputes
- Partnership litigation
- Fiduciary duty claims
- Executive disputes
- Employment litigation
- Retaliation claims
- Discrimination matters
- Whistleblower claims
- Wage disputes
- Real estate litigation
- Brokerage disputes
- Commission recovery
- Regulatory defense
- Administrative proceedings
- Arbitration
- Appellate litigation
No two matters are alike.
Collaboration at the Senior Level
Many firms sell “autonomy” when what they really mean is abandonment.
That is not this role.
Lieb at Law expects experienced attorneys to drive matters. But meaningful strategic litigation decisions are collaborative.
You will work with other senior attorneys and partners on:
- Motion strategy
- Dispositive legal theory
- Deposition planning
- Procedural positioning
- Appellate risk
- Settlement leverage
- Emergency decisions
- Trial strategy
- High-stakes client judgment calls
- Major case pivots
Our systems are built for contemporaneous collaboration.
Legal work is visible in real time. Strategic interventions happen when they improve outcomes.
That means senior litigators remain supported while maintaining ownership.
The right attorney sees that as a competitive advantage.
Technology & Modern Litigation Practice
Lieb at Law uses secure legal technology infrastructure, cloud-based litigation systems, and AI-assisted workflows to improve legal work.
Senior attorneys must be willing to adapt to modern litigation infrastructure that continues to evolve as better tools become available.
That means embracing operational improvement, technological change, and more efficient legal workflows when they strengthen outcomes and reduce waste.
Technology may support:
- Legal research acceleration
- Document analysis
- Workflow coordination
- Deadline management
- Version comparison
- Knowledge retrieval
- Operational litigation support
- Document organization
AI does not replace legal judgment.
Strong litigators use technology to improve efficiency while independently validating legal authority, factual accuracy, procedural viability, and strategic consequences.
Complex litigation remains human judgment work.
Who Thrives Here
- You enjoy ownership
- You think strategically
- Motion practice excites you
- You care about procedural leverage
- You enjoy depositions
- You like solving litigation problems in real time
- You value strong colleagues
- You care about client outcomes
- You understand business realities
- You want meaningful collaboration
- You are confident without ego
- You accept feedback without defensiveness
- You want substantive work, not title inflation
- You see AI as leverage, not threat
- You know how to lead teams, not just handle your own work
- You are comfortable delegating intelligently
- You can pivot quickly when better systems or strategies emerge
- You adapt well to operational change
This May Not Be the Right Fit If
- You prefer highly repetitive workflow
- You dislike revision
- You want complete strategic isolation
- You dislike collaborative input
- You become territorial over your cases
- You avoid difficult client conversations
- You dislike fast pivots
- You want low-intensity litigation practice
- You want remote-only practice
Qualifications
- New York admission
- Minimum 8+ years litigation experience
- Strong motion practice background
- Deposition experience
- Client management experience
- Legal writing excellence
- Procedural judgment
- Ability to independently manage active litigation matters
- Full-time in-office commitment in Smithtown
- SDNY and/or EDNY admission
- New Jersey admission
- Connecticut admission
- Commercial litigation background
- Employment litigation background
- Discrimination litigation experience
- Arbitration experience
- Appellate exposure
- Trial experience
Compensation & Benefits
Base compensation depends on experience, demonstrated capability, litigation ownership, business judgment, and ability to contribute meaningfully to outcomes.
Additional compensation: performance bonus tied to collections.
Benefits Include
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- CLE reimbursement
- Bar licensing reimbursement
- Professional development support
- Long-term advancement opportunity
This is a genuine long-term growth opportunity for the right attorney.
Apply
To apply, send your resume, cover letter, and writing sample to careers@liebatlaw.com.