Department: Legal Operations
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
At Jimerson Birr, our team has accepted the lasting responsibility of protecting our clients’ rights, businesses, properties, investments, and finances. Our professionals are integral, trusted advisers and advocates in both established and emerging businesses, giving our clients insights into legal and business considerations that guide prudent decision-making. We work with some of the world’s most respected and well-established businesses, as well as start-up visionaries, and individuals looking to overcome challenges.
About the Role
Jimerson Birr is seeking a Senior Litigation Attorney—a driven, fast-moving, decisive litigator who thrives on challenge, pressure, and high-stakes advocacy. You don’t wait for problems to come to you—you run toward them.
You take ownership the moment a case lands on your desk. You cut through complexity, take command of strategy, and push matters forward with urgency and clarity.
This role is built for a persuasive advocate who wants variety, autonomy, and influence, and who brings a steady, confident presence even when navigating risk. You’re energized by time-sensitive demands, multiple moving pieces, and situations where sharp judgment matters.
At JB, “great lawyering” isn’t defined by hours worked, it’s measured by on-plan execution, disciplined delivery, and visible progress backed by systems that create clarity, consistency, and client trust.
If you’re the kind of attorney who steps into the arena ready to move, lead, and win—this is where you belong.
What You’ll Do
· Seize control of case strategy from intake through resolution, driving scoping, budgeting, and execution while leading timekeepers with confidence and clarity.
· Serve as the primary client contact on most matters, providing bold, actionable guidance and escalating only when strategic shifts demand it.
· Move matters forward continuously, eliminating stagnation and keeping pressure on opposing parties, deadlines, and deliverables.
· Mentor, model, and set pace for junior attorneys and paralegals; delegate assertively and reinforce the firm’s proven process and validated matter plans.
· Maintain discipline across timekeeping, SLAs, budgets, and execution.
· Operate with urgency, tackling multiple issues simultaneously and adapting quickly when demands or circumstances shift.
You will excel here if you crave challenges, embrace pressure, and feel restless without something to solve.
What You’ll Bring
· JD + active Florida Bar
· 5+ years of litigation experience, commercial preferred, with evidence of sound judgment under pressure
· Strong advocacy: motions, depositions, hearings, negotiation, strategy
· Ability to act independently while collaborating within a structured system
· Comfort making fast decisions without hand-holding
· Natural persuasion, strong communication, and a confident presence
Preferred Qualifications
· First-chair trial or appellate experience
· Experience in complex commercial, class action, consumer, or eminent domain litigation
WHY JOIN JIMERSON BIRR? Join a dynamic team that values professional growth and excellence in legal service. We offer competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment dedicated to fostering your success.
We’ve found that the key to doing great work is to love what you do and respect who you do it with. To continue reading about our firm, visit our website Jimerson Birr.
Our atmosphere and award-winning firm culture is collegial and professional, and our shared commitment to professional development is superior to our contemporaries. Learn more about our firm culture here: JB Firm Culture: JB FOR ME.
WHY APPLY?You’ll get a Challenging Opportunity with a Company that Cares About Its Most Valuable Asset: YOU! At Jimerson Birr, we pride ourselves on our people and their collective achievements. Besides our list of legal industry honors, in 2021 and for the seventh consecutive year, the firm was named one of Florida’s “Best Companies to Work For” by Florida Trend Magazine. In recent years, the firm was also distinguished as one of the “Best Places to Work” by the Jacksonville Business Journal and five times as one of the “50 Fastest Growing Companies.” Opportunities abound for those who can meet and exceed the expectations set for our team. Jimerson Birr is comprised of high-performing and professionally fulfilled people. We believe that a positive attitude, personal accountability, and a commitment to quality work will put a talented person on a fast track for success. Our atmosphere and award-winning firm culture are collegial and professional, and our shared commitment to professional development is superior to our contemporaries.
Our core values are simple: Commitment to service; Commitment to quality; Commitment to results. We live our core values, and we welcome you to live them with us.
Jimerson Birr is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment and all employees are treated during employment without regard to race, color, sexual orientation, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, gender identity, and marital status.
Jimerson Birr is a Florida-based law firm that seeks to exceed client expectations through commitment to excellence and by adding value to our clients’ businesses. We are committed to handling each matter with the quality, care, attention to detail and respect as if we were representing ourselves. We are accessible, responsible, prepared, efficient and technologically advanced. Our clients and colleagues value us because they trust our integrity and abilities.
Jimerson Birr concentrates its efforts in providing the highest level of legal services throughout the Southeastern U.S. on a wide variety of business, corporate, and commercial litigation issues that can affect businesses in a broad range of circumstances. Our Florida-based law firm has a reputation for being well-prepared counselors, influential negotiators and aggressive litigators. Our firm has significant experience in the areas of construction law (including lien and bond claims, licensure, project and contract administration), business litigation (including breach of contract, misrepresentation, fiduciary breaches, non-compete enforcement and corporate/partnership disputes) and creditors rights and bankruptcy (including collections, foreclosures, replevin, garnishments, and adversarial proceedings).
