Litigation Associate Attorney

Overview

The Litigation Associate Attorney position is at the Wilhite and Associates Law Firm, P.C. located in an upscale office in Carmel, Indiana with state-of-the-art technology and equipment.

Wilhite and Associates Law Firm, P.C. is a targeted niche boutique law firm representing the professionally managed or owned multi-family housing (apartment) industry, typically national and regional clients. The founder started practicing law in 1984. The firm was founded in 1995. The firm continues to grow its client base regularly, but the majority of clients are long term, typically decades.

The firm is litigation-centered, plaintiff and defendant, in both Courts and administrative forums. Fair Housing is the firm’s niche within its niche, both educating and best practices limiting risk pre-litigation and substantial Fair Housing discrimination defense litigation. Managed largely through non-lawyers, the firm has a large volume of evictions litigation, including providing the Associate Attorney a substantial volume of in-Court experience.

The firm’s non-litigation matters are also limited to the multi-family housing industry, but that industry has a wide variety of legal needs beyond litigation that the firm provides.

With Fair Housing there is a lot of guidance to clients involving requests for Reasonable Accommodations. There is guidance on various types of often government involved properties. There is contract including leases reviews and revisions and writing. There is some involvement with injuries and premises liability including because of insurance coverage issues.

While the firm has and continues to steadily grow as measured by the number of units represented by our client base, because we limit our practice area and limit the clients we accept, our relatively small size allows us to be nimble, fast and efficient.

The firm’s Play To Win brand is not just some marketing idea. It is in fact the instinctive culture of the firm. We represent demanding sophisticated clients who expect us to litigate aggressively, often in complex challenging matters. We take the cards dealt and find a way to win with them. We don’t give up. We don’t accept “No”, “It can’t be done”, or “That’s never happened before” as answers.

We are creative. Everything we do has a purpose as part of a conscious strategic plan. We have the will not only to win, but also the will to prepare to win. Yes, just like the famous Apollo 13 line, our attitude is failure is simply not an option. We Play To Win !

Initially, the Associate Attorney receives the firm’s overall onboarding process. That initial process includes a thorough collection of materials to organize teaching and exposure to systems and firm concepts. The initial onboarding is presented by multiple people, with the big picture philosophies and cultures taught by Jeff. The structured onboarding covers everything from the “big pictures” to policies to the Case Management Software Practice Panther — how to make photocopies.

Professional training includes of course written materials such as outlines and resources. But more importantly, development includes one-on-one training with Jeff, often at a dry erase board, on concepts and strategies and techniques. Continuing CLE can be in whatever areas the attorney wants, but often geared towards litigation and Fair Housing.

The firm provides significant litigation training and development. The firm’s founder has always been a civil litigator, for four decades, with three decades in the multi-family housing industry niche. Jeff has substantial jury trial experience. Jeff is by background (and nature) a trial attorney. Knowing he wanted to be a persuasive litigator, he received a bachelor’s degree, with distinction, in psychology from Indiana University, Phi Beta Kappa, where he also received several national debating honors.

He then received his law degree from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Jeff has both a passion and decades of experience teaching litigation and trial techniques. Jeff has been a Board Certified Trial Attorney, National Board of Trial Advocacy and been on the faculty…