Description

BERTOLINO LLP is a professional license defense law firm based in downtown Austin, representing licensed professionals across the state of Texas.  We focus our practice on Administrative Law, defending clients before state licensing boards and regulatory agencies when their careers, reputations, and livelihoods are at stake.  Our attorneys combine over 50 years of deep knowledge of administrative law and procedure with strong advocacy to protect the rights of professionals in a wide range of industries.

We are currently looking to hire an Associate Attorney, in a remote "work at home" capacity, who will:

• Work to assist our clients with protecting and defending their occupational licenses when their licenses are under attack by a state regulatory agency, board, commission, or state bar.
• Interview clients, gather facts, spot issues, and prepare them for defense
• Develop legal, factual, and mitigation-oriented defenses based upon client-provided information, legal research, and case posture analysis 
• Participate in evidentiary hearings at the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH), assist with Informal Settlement Conferences (ISC), and participate in mediations
• Prepare pleas, pleadings, motions, written discovery (both requests and responses), and participate in depositions in preparation for evidentiary hearings before the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) at the SOAH
• Negotiate with regulatory agency staff attorneys and/or agency investigators at the investigative phase
• Assist our clients with preparing written packets in response to complaint notices
• Keep our clients heavily informed about the progress of their case
• Counsel clients on regulatory compliance-related obligations impacting their businesses and licenses and assist them in assessing their operating processes, policies, and procedures to reduce the client’s risk profile.

Requirements

• Must possess a current license to practice law in the State of Texas with a record free from any discipline with any State Bar. 
• Minimum of four (4) years of legal experience, preferably in administrative law, litigation, or a related area
• Strong legal research and writing skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work independently, meet deadlines, and manage multiple priorities and an extensive case docket
• Commitment to meeting minimum monthly billable hour goals with accurate and compelling billing narratives
• Experience using Westlaw, CoCounsel, Clio Manage, Clio Grow, One-Drive, Chat GPT, MS Word, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, and MS Excel preferred.