We’re looking for highly motivated, creative, and collaborative attorneys to join our airports practice—an exceptionally engaging area of law at the intersection of transportation, public policy, infrastructure, business, and community impact. For lawyers seeking a dynamic legal practice with real-world significance, airport law offers a rare opportunity to work on matters that shape how people and goods move, how regions grow, and how communities stay connected. The work is sophisticated, varied, and rarely routine, spanning regulatory, transactional, litigation, environmental, and finance issues across airports of every size. Just as important, it is deeply meaningful: airports are essential public assets, and the legal work surrounding them affects millions of travelers, businesses, and communities every day.
Why consider us?
Operating outside the “Big Law” model, our collegial and collaborative firm gives associates the opportunity to take on meaningful responsibility early, build strong client relationships, and grow professionally through work that is both challenging and impactful.
We are a fast-growing national specialized law firm devoted exclusively to helping clients solve problems involving the nation’s most complex and high-profile projects in airports, real estate, land use, infrastructure, project financing, rail, transit, renewable energy, environmental, conservation, and tribal law. While the Firm is loosely organized into primary practices areas, we pride ourselves on complex, collaborative work that does not always respect boundaries of traditional legal disciplines, and associates will regularly work with colleagues across all of our practice areas. Over half of our practice groups and a number of partners and associates received recognition from Chambers & Partners in their USA rankings, reflecting our Firm’s outsized achievements and national recognition. The work we do is rewarding and we are tremendously proud of the superior services our team is able to provide to our clients.
Founded in 2003 to provide an alternative to the “business of law as usual,” our Firm’s focus remains on our colleagues as well as our clients. We believe that when you enjoy working with a great team, know that your contributions make a difference, and are able to pursue a challenging career without hindering personal life responsibilities and choices, your professional life can and should be more enjoyable and rewarding.
We are proud to be recognized for both the quality of our work and the opportunities for our associates to learn and grow. Our associates are uniquely positioned to have a significant impact for clients from day one, while also gaining valuable experience and training. We believe that as an associate, you should have a path toward partnership, and our collective mentoring approach has resulted in a number of internally promoted partners.
Requirements
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Position details: This is a full-time position to be located in Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, or Washington DC. We have an annual expectation of 1,600 billable hours for our associates, and we have incorporated our values into this target by including an unlimited amount of approved pro bono hours when meeting this target. This position requires periodic travel for client meetings, industry conferences, and opportunities to visit with colleagues in other Firm offices. The salary range is $172,000 - $194,000 commensurate with experience. We offer medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, STD, LTD, group term life insurance, 401(k), flexible PTO, and parental leave. The Firm will also cover some public transportation costs. We are currently working in a hybrid environment, which may allow for remote work as business needs allow.
The Firm is actively committed to fostering the principles of diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity. We do not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of age, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, disability, marital status, military status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application process, please do not hesitate to reach out by emailing HR@kaplankirsch.com
Kaplan Kirsch is a national law firm with a practice focused on solving problems that involve environmental, infrastructure, land use, public lands, real estate development, and transportation law. The Firm represents local governments, individuals, corporate clients, and organizations in complex and controversial projects that are often subject to intense public scrutiny and involve the intersection of private and governmental interests. The Firm has a reputation for crafting innovative solutions to high-risk and seemingly intractable problems involving the complex interplay of varied disciplines of law.
Our attorneys have been counsel to a wide variety of public agencies across the nation, represented public interest organizations in high-profile environmental litigation, served as government counsel at the highest levels of federal and local government, and represented a wide range of clients on cutting-edge compliance issues. Our attorneys have a national reputation as handling some of the largest and most sophisticated public infrastructure projects, including Brownfields redevelopment, airports, highways, and urban transit systems.
The Firm's offices in Denver, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, enable the Firm to represent clients in matters throughout the country. The breadth of the Firm's practice includes active representations in almost half the states at any one time.
