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 Litigation Team Leader who excels in dynamic environments, moves quickly, and takes command of both strategy and execution. This role blends high-impact commercial litigation work with leadership of a small, high-performing team. You’ll drive outcomes, steer decision-making, delegate confidently, and maintain momentum across multiple fast-moving matters.

This position is ideal for an attorney who: ✔️ Thrives when tackling new challenges ✔️Enjoys variety ✔️ Brings a persuasive, forward-leaning communication style. You’ll guide the team, shape strategy, and jump into key advocacy moments while ensuring smooth, disciplined execution across all workstreams.

What You’Ll Do

· Lead weekly Team meetings, assessing scorecards, staffing, case mix, SLA health, projects, and issues; ensuring the team stays aligned, focused, and on-plan. · Distribute work decisively and intelligently, keeping throughput high and maintaining clarity on priorities. · Reinforce discipline in process execution by ensuring matter plans, templates, and technology are consistently adopted.

· Coach attorneys and paralegals, offering direction, feedback, and persuasive guidance that moves the team toward results. · Own client relationships for all matters touched by your team. This includes driving satisfaction, retention, and opportunities for expanded engagement.

· Maintain a selective litigation docket, stepping in where your strategic or advocacy presence will have maximum impact. · Respond quickly as issues arise, keeping matters in motion and eliminating bottlenecks before they slow progress.

Preferred Qualifications

· First-chair trial experience · Experience in complex commercial, class action, consumer, or eminent domain litigation · Prior leadership or player-coach experience This role offers meaningful influence, autonomy, and the ability to make a tangible impact on both the team and the firm. You’ll practice inside a client‑service model designed to create consistent value: Conferring client‑defined value: Clarify objectives, success criteria, budget, timeline, and communication preferences at intake—then manage to them. Accessibility: Keep lines open and responsive; clients never guess how to reach us or when they’ll hear from us.

Efficiency & cost‑effectiveness: Staff matters smartly, use technology and checklists to reduce friction, and provide early assessments for predictable spend. Delivering an experience while delivering results: Make progress visible with alignment calls, status summaries, and documented decisions. Meaningful partnership: Anticipate needs, surface options, and help clients plan the next goal beyond the one we just achieved.

Exceptional communication based on listening: Ask better questions, summarize tradeoffs plainly, and write for business readers. Accountability to goals: Hold the team (and yourself) to timelines, scopes, and outcomes; surface risks early and propose fixes.