Commercial, Business, & Real Property Litigation Attorney - South Florida

Overview

This remote part-time attorney role supports an active docket of commercial, business, and real-property litigation matters involving contract, business, partition, constructive-trust, and related civil disputes.

Work arrangement: Primarily remote, with occasional in-person appearances, depositions, mediations, hearings, client meetings, or trial-related work in South Florida.

Compensation: $50 - $100 per hour

Schedule: Part Time

Location requirement: Must reside in and travel within South Florida.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage assigned commercial, business, and real-property litigation matters from intake through resolution.
• Evaluate claims, defenses, damages, remedies, evidentiary issues, and litigation risk.
• Draft and revise pleadings, motions, memoranda, discovery requests, discovery responses, subpoenas, and settlement-related documents.
• Develop case strategy, discovery plans, deposition outlines, and hearing or trial-preparation plans aligned with client objectives.
• Conduct legal research and prepare clear, persuasive written analysis regarding contract, business, property, and equitable claims.
• Take and defend depositions; prepare clients, witnesses, and experts for depositions, hearings, mediations, and trial.
• Handle motion practice, hearings, mediations, settlement negotiations, and other litigation proceedings, as assigned.
• Coordinate factual investigation, document collection, discovery, expert analysis, and damages support.
• Communicate professionally and strategically with clients, opposing counsel, court personnel, experts, and firm team members.
• Maintain accurate case records, deadlines, task lists, time entries, and documentation in the firm’s case-management systems.
• Collaborate with supervising attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants, and outside professionals to move matters forward efficiently.
• Meet agreed-upon billable, responsiveness, and work-product expectations.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in good standing with The Florida Bar.
• At least five years of substantive litigation experience in commercial, business, real-property, or complex civil matters.
• Demonstrated experience handling contract disputes, business conflicts, partition actions, constructive-trust claims, and/or related equitable remedies.
• Strong experience drafting dispositive and non-dispositive motions, discovery, written discovery responses, legal memoranda, and settlement documents.
• Experience conducting or substantively preparing for depositions, evidentiary hearings, mediations, and trial.
• Ability to assess facts, legal theories, damages, leverage, and litigation risk independently.
• Excellent legal writing, oral advocacy, negotiation, and client-communication skills.
• Strong organization, deadline management, billing discipline, and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment while remaining responsive, accountable, and collaborative.
• Ability to travel occasionally for proceedings and firm-related needs within South Florida.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience litigating partnership, shareholder, LLC-member, fiduciary-duty, ownership, or business-breakup disputes.
• Experience with equitable remedies, including constructive trusts, equitable liens, injunctions, receiverships, or declaratory relief.
• Experience coordinating experts, damages analyses, financial records, property records, or multi-party discovery.
• Familiarity with Florida state-court practice, including e-filing, local procedures, and civil-motion practice.
• Experience using Clio, LexisNexis, Microsoft Office, and remote collaboration tools.
• Previous contract-attorney, hybrid, or remote litigation experience.

Compensation & Benefits

• $50 - $100 per hour

Location

Remote position with occasional in-person work in South Florida.

Requirement: Must reside in and travel within South Florida.