Years of Experience Attorneys with with 2 - 5 years of commercial litigation experience. Academic Requirements Outstanding achievement, including excellent law school record, references, demonstrated leadership, litigation and writing skills. Admission to CA Bar Preferred but not required initially. Type of Experience Litigation experience including in intellectual property, securities, privacy, class actions, business torts, contract disputes, attorney malpractice, internal investigations, white collar criminal, environmental, health care, high technology, media and entertainment, and products liability. Candidates ideally will have strong writing skills, be entrepreneurial about developing their practice, and have experience with the nuts and bolts of pre-trial work, investigations, and/or trials. Litigation experience can be at a law firm, government agency or non-profit. Over 85% of our litigators served as a clerk to a federal or state judge so experience as a judicial clerk is encouraged, but not a prerequisite for the right candidate with other proven litigation experience. Type of Work Depends on experience and matter; we handle our clients? biggest, most cutting edge problems as well as more their most significant litigations. Our litigators are both generalists and develop various areas of expertise, whether that be in an industry and/or a specific practice area. We look for excellent candidates who will be writing briefs, leading investigations, managing discovery, preparing witnesses for trial, taking depositions, formulating strategy for cases, arguing motions, and managing day to day litigation tasks. Level of Responsibility We aim to provide early responsibility to our colleagues. Degree of Client Contact As much as appropriate: depends on experience and client skills ? no preconceived limitation. Travel Some of our work is outside of California and may require travel for trial, hearings and depositions. Billable Hours We have no formal billable hour requirement. But our lawyers expect that under ordinary circumstances all full-time associates will strive to work hard. Commitment to the firm, clients and at least 2,000 hours per year on client matters for which time is what counts.recorded (i.e., litigation or transactional matters, including pro bono). Practice Area Summary Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP is a firm of approximately 200 lawyers that maintains a nationally recognized practice representing clients in a broad range of complex and high-profile commercial litigation matters across a wide range of subject areas and industries. We handle matters in all stages of litigation, from pre-complaint assessment to and through trial; our clients call on us to lead their most sensitive investigations; and we regularly advise our clients with respect to their most significant litigation avoidance strategies or internal legal problems. Benefits of Coming to Munger, Tolles & Olson Among the best complex business litigation in the country; prominent and committed clients; great people to work with; an open and progressive firm environment; terrific profit per partner and associate compensation and benefits history. Salary Scale 2025 Annual Salaries Law School Class Year Salary 2025 $225,000 2024 $225,000 2023 $235,000 2022 $260,000 2021 $310,000 2020 $365,000 2019 $390,000 2018 $420,000 2017 and earlier $435,000 The salary range is the one that Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP reasonably expects to pay for this position. The salary range does not guarantee, obligate, nor set expectations of an applicant's wage in the event of hire. The posted range is only one component of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP's Total Rewards package. Years of Experience Attorneys with with 2 - 5 years of commercial litigation experience. Academic Requirements Outstanding achievement, including excellent law school record, references, demonstrated leadership, litigation and writing skills. Admission to CA Bar Preferred but not required initially. Type of Experience Litigation experience including in intellectual property, securities, privacy, class actions, business torts, contract disputes, attorney malpractice, internal investigations, white collar criminal, environmental, health care, high technology, media and entertainment, and products liability. Candidates ideally will have strong writing skills, be entrepreneurial about developing their practice, and have experience with the nuts and bolts of pre-trial work, investigations, and/or trials. Litigation experience can be at a law firm, government agency or non-profit. Over 85% of our litigators served as a clerk to a federal or state judge so experience as a judicial clerk is encouraged, but not a prerequisite for the right candidate with other proven litigation experience. Type of Work Depends on experience and matter; we handle our clients? biggest, most cutting edge problems as well as more their most significant litigations. Our litigators are both generalists and develop various areas of expertise, whether that be in an industry and/or a specific practice area. We look for excellent candidates who will be writing briefs, leading investigations, managing discovery, preparing witnesses for trial, taking depositions, formulating strategy for cases, arguing motions, and managing day to day litigation tasks. Level of Responsibility We aim to provide early responsibility to our colleagues. Degree of Client Contact As much as appropriate: depends on experience and client skills ? no preconceived limitation. Travel Some of our work is outside of California and may require travel for trial, hearings and depositions. Billable Hours We have no formal billable hour requirement. But our lawyers expect that under ordinary circumstances all full-time associates will strive to work hard. Commitment to the firm, clients and at least 2,000 hours per year on client matters for which time is what counts.recorded (i.e., litigation or transactional matters, including pro bono). Practice Area Summary Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP is a firm of approximately 200 lawyers that maintains a nationally recognized practice representing clients in a broad range of complex and high-profile commercial litigation matters across a wide range of subject areas and industries. We handle matters in all stages of litigation, from pre-complaint assessment to and through trial; our clients call on us to lead their most sensitive investigations; and we regularly advise our clients with respect to their most significant litigation avoidance strategies or internal legal problems. Benefits of Coming to Munger, Tolles & Olson Among the best complex business litigation in the country; prominent and committed clients; great people to work with; an open and progressive firm environment; terrific profit per partner and associate compensation and benefits history. Salary Scale 2025 Annual Salaries Law School Class Year Salary 2025 $225,000 2024 $225,000 2023 $235,000 2022 $260,000 2021 $310,000 2020 $365,000 2019 $390,000 2018 $420,000 2017 and earlier $435,000 The salary range is the one that Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP reasonably expects to pay for this position. The salary range does not guarantee, obligate, nor set expectations of an applicant's wage in the event of hire. The posted range is only one component of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP's Total Rewards package.
Practice Areas & Specialty
Commercial, Litigation
