Open Positions: Professional Staff
Non-Discrimination Policy
Hanson Bridgett LLP seeks to ensure a positive and diverse work culture where each person may work and develop professionally to the best of their ability free of unlawful discrimination or prejudice. To this end, the firm is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits unlawful discrimination or prejudice of any kind based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran’s status, mental or physical disability, or pregnancy.
Walnut Creek, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Rafael, Sacramento, San Diego, Fresno
San Francisco
Walnut Creek, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Rafael, Sacramento, San Diego, Fresno
Litigation - Legal Secretary
Hybrid
This role offers a flexible hybrid schedule, with 1 to 3 days in the office per week, depending on your location and assigned practice group. Remote workdays are coordinated with your direct supervisor and assigned attorneys to ensure team needs are consistently met. Employees must be available for in-person meetings, court deadlines, professional development sessions, and other critical business needs as they arise.
To support a seamless remote work experience, Hanson Bridgett will provide all necessary IT equipment for working remotely, ensuring you have the tools you need to perform at your best wherever you are working.
Essential Responsibilities and Duties
- Provide comprehensive administrative and legal support to attorneys and paralegals across active litigation matters.
- Prepare, proofread, format, and finalize legal documents, including pleadings, discovery materials, motions, and correspondence, ensuring accuracy and strict adherence to deadlines.
- Manage attorney calendars efficiently; schedule client meetings, court appearances, depositions, and hearings; and coordinate complex travel arrangements.
- Handle the filing and e-filing of legal documents in federal and state courts, ensuring full compliance with applicable court rules and local requirements.
- Maintain, organize, and update case files, ensuring all documents are properly categorized, indexed, and filed in a timely manner within the firm’s document management system.
- Monitor and track critical deadlines, ensuring attorneys are fully prepared for court appearances, hearings, depositions, and client meetings.
- Assist with billing processes, including time entry, tracking attorney hours, and timely submission to billing software.
- Serve as a professional and responsive primary point of contact for incoming calls, emails, and correspondence on behalf of attorneys.
- Manage client interactions with care and discretion, maintaining strict confidentiality and delivering exceptional, white-glove client service.
- Prepare high-quality PowerPoint presentations, Excel reports, and other materials for client meetings and internal use.
- Collaborate actively with team members across departments to support firm initiatives, special projects, and research assignments as requested.
Required Skills, Abilities, and Qualifications
- Minimum of 5+ years of legal secretarial experience, with a strong preference for litigation-focused backgrounds.
- Expert knowledge of legal terminology, court rules, and procedures, with particular emphasis on California law, including local, state, and federal courts.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and legal technology platforms, including document management systems, e-filing platforms, and billing software.
- Demonstrated ability to work as a collaborative team player in a professional setting, contributing positively to team dynamics, communicating proactively, and supporting colleagues to achieve shared goals.
- Exceptional organizational and time-management skills, capable of managing multiple priorities, tasks, and deadlines in a demanding, deadline-driven environment.
- Superior written and verbal communication skills, with excellent grammar, sharp attention to detail, and the ability to craft clear, concise legal correspondence and documents.
- A deep commitment to attention to detail and following instructions in litigation support; precision is not optional; it is the standard by which all work is measured.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while also thriving as a contributing member of a close-knit legal team.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and adaptability, with a high degree of initiative when handling complex or unexpected tasks.
- Unwavering professionalism, confidentiality, and discretion when handling sensitive information or high-profile matters.
- Flexibility to work overtime or adjust hours as necessary to meet firm needs, particularly during critical deadlines or intensive case preparation.
Compensation
Hanson Bridgett offers a competitive salary and benefits package. The annual salary for this California-based role is anticipated to be in the area of $85,000.00 – $100,000.00, and represents the firm’s good faith and reasonable estimate of possible compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation is negotiable and will depend upon several factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s years of experience, qualifications, and skill set.
Office Services Assistant
On-Site
Under general supervision, provides Office Services functions such as hospitality, conference room upkeep as well as front desk coverage. This is a full time/non-exempt position based in San Francisco. The position will report to the Director of Office Operations.
Essential Responsibilities and Duties
Essential functions include reliable attendance; a professional appearance; and frequent schedule adjustments in order to accommodate events, including overtime.
- Stay on top of the various meetings and events at the firm and ensure that set-ups are refreshed as needed, including contacting Coffee Attendants as needed regarding clean-up of conference rooms.
- Keep a flexible schedule to provide evening coverage for after-hours events, including bartending duties as well as clean-up and reconfiguration of conference rooms
- Provide front desk coverage when someone in the Concierge group is out.
- Work closely with the Concierge group to obtain necessary details regarding meetings and events. Coordinate with other Office Services staff as needed regarding set-ups and catering needs
- Work cooperatively with the Receptionists and other Office Services Department staff, and provide back-up assistance to others as needed.
- Log and track outgoing packages in accordance with office procedures.
- Log incoming packages in the firm’s Package Tracking program.
- Assist internal customers by suggesting shipment options, checking rates, and preparing shipments.
- Process incoming and outgoing electronic faxes
- Greet customers, answer telephones, and provide information relative to department procedures and services.
- Assist other departments with special projects, such as large mailings and document preparation.
- Other duties as assigned
Required Skills, Abilities, and Qualifications
- A high school diploma or equivalent work experience is required.
- At least one year of office experience is required; prior law firm or hospitality industry experience is desirable.
- Strong customer service skills, initiative, and attention to accuracy
- Effective communication skills, both written and oral
- Computer proficiency for data entry, Microsoft Outlook, and Excel
- Strong organizational skills, interpersonal skills, and reliability
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment and to act quickly while remaining calm and polite
- Ability to adapt to a changing environment
Compensation
The hourly rate is $26.67–$28.72, commensurate with experience and qualifications. Hanson Bridgett offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) with firm contribution (profit sharing), paid time off, and support for continuing legal education and professional development.
Wage & Hour Statistician
Hybrid/Remote
Hanson Bridgett is seeking a Wage & Hour Statistician to support the firm’s Labor & Employment practice. This individual will report to the Manager of Legal Staffing & Deployment, and will work closely with partners, associates and paralegals in the section. The Statistician will analyze payroll, timekeeping, human resources, and workforce data to identify patterns, evaluate potential wage and hour exposure, and provide clear, practical findings to attorneys and clients. The role requires strong statistical judgment, data-management expertise, and the ability to translate complex analyses for audiences with varied technical backgrounds.
This position is designed to support a flexible hybrid or remote work environment. Candidates residing in California and near one of Hanson Bridgett’s office locations are preferred; however, remote candidates will also be considered. The successful candidate must be available to attend occasional in-person meetings, trainings, and other firm-related events as needed.
Essential Responsibilities and Duties
- Analyze payroll, timekeeping, scheduling, and human resources information systems data in connection with wage and hour matters and class actions.
- Clean, validate, reconcile, and organize large datasets, including resolving anomalies and non-standard identifiers across source systems.
- Design and maintain databases and repeatable analytical workflows for litigation and client projects.
- Use SQL, Python, R, SAS, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, or comparable tools to extract, transform, analyze, and report data.
- Develop programs, scripts, and macros that automate repetitive data and statistical tasks while maintaining quality controls.
- Compare timekeeping and payroll data to identify discrepancies between time worked and time paid.
- Analyze regular-rate, overtime, meal-period, employment-status, and potential class-member data as directed by the legal team.
- Provide clear and concise communications regarding the analysis processes and results – both written and oral – to attorneys and client contacts, with the ability to explain complex topics in an easy-to-understand manner.
- Prepare customized reports, exposure analyses, summaries, and visualizations for attorneys and clients.
- Partner with attorneys and project teams to define scope, prioritize deliverables, and manage multiple matters with shifting deadlines.
Required Skills, Abilities, and Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years of data analytics experience working directly with wage and hour data, preferably within a legal or human resources context.
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
- Demonstrated experience cleaning, joining, and analyzing large or complex datasets.
- Proficiency with SQL and at least one statistical programming language, such as R or Python.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience designing clear analytical reports.
- Ability to independently assess project needs, identify data-quality issues, and develop defensible analytical approaches.
- Strong critical-thinking, problem-solving, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects from start to finish in a deadline-driven professional environment.
- Communication skills required to translate intricate statistical curves into clean visuals that clients and lead litigation partners can easily digest.
- Direct experience with California Wage & Hour topics and data, timekeeping and payroll data.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Statistics, Data Science, or a related field.
- Experience analyzing payroll, timekeeping, HRIS, or employment data.
- Experience supporting wage and hour litigation, investigations, consulting, damages analysis, or class-action matters.
- Experience with SAS, Stata, Tableau, Power BI, Microsoft Access, or Visual Basic for Applications.
- Experience extracting structured information from PDFs or other non-standard data formats.
Compensation
Hanson Bridgett offers a competitive salary and benefits package. The annual salary for this role is anticipated to be in the range of $105,000 to $120,000 and represents the firm’s good faith and reasonable estimate of possible compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation is negotiable and will depend upon several factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s years of experience, location, qualifications, and skill set.
