Litigation Attorney

Mudd Law•Chicago, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Mudd Law seeks an experienced litigation attorney who can assume meaningful responsibility quickly, manage sophisticated matters with sound judgment, and work directly with clients while continuing to grow within a collaborative, technology-forward practice. We are a small firm by design. Our attorneys work on consequential matters involving Internet, technology, privacy, defamation, intellectual property, business disputes, and other evolving areas of law. This is a position of responsibility with the benefit of collaborative refinement. We want an attorney who already knows how to litigate and who wants to become even better at it.

Requirements

A willingness to take ownership of matters while remaining receptive to candid professional feedback and strategic refinement.
An active Illinois law license. Additional state or federal admissions are also valuable.
Substantial litigation experience sufficient to handle core responsibilities with limited training and supervision. The quality, breadth, and independence of your actual work matter more than an arbitrary year count.
Meaningful deposition and trial experience.
Excellent legal research, analytical, and writing ability.
The ability to manage a caseload, prioritize intelligently, and recognize when additional research or editing adds value and when it does not.
Strong client judgment: the ability to put clients at ease when appropriate, focus a distressed client on what matters, manage expectations, and remain aware that lawyer-client communications also have time and billing consequences.
Professional time discipline, including punctuality and contemporaneous timekeeping.
Attorneys to work intelligently with modern legal technology and to understand that responsible use of AI can strengthen research, analysis, drafting, organization, and problem solving when paired with independent legal judgment.
Attorneys who remain curious about how technology works, experiment thoughtfully with new capabilities, understand limitations and risks, protect client confidentiality, verify outputs, and recognize when technology should and should not be used.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Internet law, privacy, cybersecurity, defamation, intellectual property, technology disputes, or other emerging legal issues.
Evidence that you use AI or advanced legal technology thoughtfully and responsibly in your work.
Law review, significant writing experience, or other evidence of exceptional analytical rigor.
Experience with Clio or comparable practice-management software.
Additional admissions or experience that broaden the matters you can help Mudd Law handle.

Responsibilities

Take meaningful ownership of litigation matters and help move them forward from strategy through resolution.
Draft and revise complaints, motions, discovery, demand and preservation letters, deposition outlines, and trial-related materials.
Conduct sophisticated legal research efficiently and translate it into practical strategy and persuasive writing.
Prepare for, take, and defend depositions; participate meaningfully in trial preparation and courtroom work.
Communicate directly with clients and related parties, including in sensitive or high-pressure situations.
Manage competing deadlines, priorities, court rules, and client needs across a caseload.
Collaborate with the firm while as well as independent management of matters.
Work across litigation and assist with transactional, intellectual-property, or emerging-technology issues.