FAMILY LAW ASSOCIATE WITH 1-3 YEARS OF FAMILY LAW EXPERIENCE NEEDED
Ruvolo Law Group, LLC is looking for a new associate with 1-3 years of experience in family law to join our thriving family law practice in Morristown, New Jersey. A family law clerkship is a bonus, but not a requirement. Our Firm offers a competitive salary, health, dental and vision insurance, retirement plan and a low-key working environment. A qualified candidate must possess all of the following qualities:
- Hard worker, but can also be laid back and friendly.
- Dog lover (we often have our furry friends in our office).
- Have a genuine and long-term interest in family and matrimonial law.
- Appreciate the business of operating a law firm (you don't need to completely understand it, but you do need to appreciate the time, sacrifice and complexity of running a law firm).
- Conscientious writer.
- Attention to detail.
- Interest in building a personal book of business over time (which requires marketing yourself on your own time).
- Organized and neat.
- Team player.
- Excellent typing skills (without looking at the keyboard and with all 10 fingers, not 2).
- Able to get your own coffee (not ask one of our busy assistants to do it for you).
- Excellent time management skills.
- Ability to take ownership of projects and tasks delegated to you in a timely manner.
- Sense of humor (Family law is stressful and we all need to laugh).
- Confidence and/or the ability to fake confidence when necessary.
- Loves learning and understands that while you will be trained to an extent, you have to attend CLE seminars and read family law publications on your "own time" to become a successful attorney.
- Warm personality who can assure clients and "talk them off the ledge" when they need it the most.
- Be book smart and have common sense in order to exercise sound judgment in stressful situations.
- Be able to tolerate a coworker's child randomly making an appearance in the office and potentially scribbling on your note pads.
- Respectful of all people, regardless of color, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or whether they prefer dogs or cats.
- Lives within a reasonable commuting distance from our Morristown office.
- Must appreciate the fact that while clients may seem "needy" or "difficult," they are experiencing the most stressful time of their lives and still deserve your respect and patience.
- Must be able to hold a comfortable conversation, but not chat everyone to deafness.
- Agree to feature yourself in our unconventional annual holiday card.
If this list of qualities scream out your name and you are ready to make a move, please email your cover letter, resume and writing sample to [email protected]. All inquiries will be kept strictly confidential.
P.S. If you're not interested, share this anyway!
P.P.S. We will ignore your submission if you: (1) don't possess these job qualifications; (2) spell our names wrong; or (3) don't include your cover letter, resume and writing sample.
P.P.P.S. If this job advertisement did not make you smile, then you do not possess the required qualification of having a sense of humor.
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Michelle A. Levin, Esq.
Ruvolo Law Group, LLC
360 Mt. Kemble Ave.
Suite 3001
Morristown, NJ 07960
Phone: 973-993-9960
Fax: 973-993-9961
[email protected]www.ruvololaw.com------------------------------