Litigation Team Leader

Description 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.

Department: Legal Operations

Location: Jacksonville, Florida

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 work streams.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills, Knowledge And Expertise

• JD + active Florida Bar
• 7–10+ years of litigation experience, with demonstrated leadership, judgment, and ability to direct others
• Strong record in hearings, depositions, negotiations, and strategy execution
• Ability to communicate persuasively and drive alignment around decisions
• Comfort managing multiple moving parts at once and making fast, informed decisions
• Proven ability to enforce standards, elevate team performance, and maintain forward momentum

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.

Benefits

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…