Litigation Attorney

Overview

This role is for an experienced Litigation Attorney to support complex health care disputes and investigations. The position is full-time and may be remote, with meaningful integration into a collaborative team based in Detroit and New York. Experience in any complex litigation practice is welcome.

Work spans federal law and matters arising in multiple state forums, including litigation and regulatory proceedings.

Responsibilities

• Handle and support complex health care litigation in federal and state courts, administrative forums, arbitrations, and pre-litigation disputes.
• Independently manage litigation matters from early case assessment through dispositive motion practice, discovery, depositions, hearings, settlement, and trial preparation.
• Draft clear, persuasive, and well-researched pleadings, motions, briefs, discovery requests and responses, subpoenas, position letters, and client communications.
• Conduct legal research across federal and state statutes, regulations, procedural rules, and evolving health care authorities.
• Take and defend depositions; prepare fact and expert witnesses; and participate in hearings, mediations, arbitrations, and trials as the matter requires.
• Develop litigation strategy with partners and clients, including early risk assessment, factual investigation, preservation issues, and practical business recommendations.
• Work effectively with local counsel and adapt quickly to jurisdiction-specific procedural and substantive requirements.
• Advise health care clients on disputes involving reimbursement, billing, licensure, professional relationships, compliance, government investigations, payer issues, and related operational risk.
• Build trusted client relationships through responsive communication, sound judgment, ownership of assignments, and consistently strong work product.
• Mentor junior attorneys and staff as appropriate and contribute to the continued growth of the litigation practice.

Requirements

• Licensed and in good standing in Michigan or New York.
• Strong, practical litigation skills with the ability to quickly learn new jurisdictions, statutory frameworks, regulatory schemes, and/or client business models.
• Ability to identify what controls for each assignment and produce sound, well-supported work.
• Willingness to work in other states where appropriate, coordinated with supervising attorneys, local counsel, and applicable admission rules.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in additional jurisdictions.

Location

• Detroit and New York (with potential for remote work, and meaningful integration into the team).