Managing Trial Attorney

Overview

This role is a Remote Trial Managing Attorney position responsible for owning the firm’s Florida trial docket and leading attorneys who try its cases. You will carry a personal caseload of Florida trial-set matters while also supervising the trial function.

The position is a working manager role—combining case leadership and direct trial work with supervision, readiness management, risk monitoring, training, and team development.

Responsibilities

• Carry a designated caseload of litigated matters set for trial in Florida state and federal courts.
• On assignment, review each matter (pleadings, discovery, motion practice, testimony, evidence, rulings, controlling law, and strategy to date) and work with the file attorney to understand facts, procedural history, theories, and positions already on record.
• Determine needed additional discovery, evidence, witnesses, research, or motion practice; prepare cases for trial, including witness preparation, exhibit development, trial outlines, motions in limine, proposed jury instructions or findings, and evidentiary briefing.
• Appear at pre-trial conferences, hearings, mediations, depositions, and trial as required, traveling within Florida as settings require.
• Identify each file’s weaknesses before opposing counsel does (evidentiary gaps, chain-of-assignment issues, business records foundation problems, admissibility limits, discovery deficiencies, and procedural defects) and assess likely impact on outcome, ruling risk, and client or fee exposure.
• Build and execute case-specific trial strategy toward the best available outcome; adjust as the record changes; provide candid written assessments of strengths, weaknesses, and probable outcomes, including recommending resolution over trial where warranted.
• Supervise the Florida trial attorney team, including assignments, coverage, and workload balance; maintain an up-to-date view of every trial-set matter’s date, readiness status, and open items.
• Set and enforce trial readiness standards; run readiness reviews according to the firm’s cadence and document results in the case management system.
• Build bench depth so no trial setting depends on a single attorney; manage continuances and coverage decisions; escalate promptly when a setting cannot be covered.
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, performance review, and development planning for the trial team.
• Monitor case risk under firm procedure, including high-risk flagging and quality control requirements; present risk file reviews to firm leadership with issue, exposure, and closing date.
• Escalate legal, financial, and reputational exposure to firm leadership and, where required, to clients as issues are identified; track sanctions exposure, fee exposure, and recurring defect patterns to correct upstream causes.
• Support client audit, reporting, and scorecard requirements that apply to trial matters.
• Train and mentor the trial team on trial practice (examination, foundation, exhibits, objections, courtroom presence), including second chairing less experienced attorneys; run post-trial debriefs to feed lessons into training.
• Maintain written trial standards, checklists, and templates; build development paths for attorneys ready for greater responsibility.
• Report trial docket status and risk exposure to firm leadership on the established cadence; communicate with clients per firm protocol; keep the file attorney and team informed throughout trial preparation.
• Maintain current knowledge of Florida and federal procedural rules, evidentiary requirements, and substantive law relevant to assigned matters.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and Active license and good standing in Florida.
• Extensive civil litigation and trial experience in Florida state courts, including cases taken through verdict or judgment.
• Prior supervisory, team lead, or formal mentoring experience.
• Strong command of civil procedure, evidence, discovery, motion practice, and trial practice.
• Ability to take on a file with a long procedural history and quickly determine where it stands and what it needs.
• Sound, objective judgment, including willingness to provide an unwelcome assessment; strong organizational and case management skills across competing deadlines.
• Mortgage foreclosure, creditors’ rights, or default servicing litigation experience, plus federal court trial experience and familiarity with servicer and investor requirements and reporting expectations.
• Experience with CaseAware or a comparable case management platform.
• Experience building training programs, practice standards, or quality control processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior work developing training programs, practice standards, and/or quality control processes for attorneys and teams.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified in the provided job description.

Location

• Remote.
• Travel within Florida as required by pre-trial and trial settings.

Additional Information

• The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
• The employer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.