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Commercial Real Estate Litigation Attorney

Trueline

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Active member of the California Bar
  • Approximately 15+ years of litigation experience
  • Significant experience handling commercial landlord-tenant matters
  • Strong understanding of commercial lease drafting, review, and interpretation

Responsibilities

  • Represent commercial landlords in complex lease disputes, unlawful detainer actions, and breach of lease matters
  • Draft and negotiate commercial leases, amendments, assignments, guaranties, and related agreements
  • Manage litigation from initial strategy through trial, including pleadings, discovery, motions, depositions, hearings, and settlement negotiations
  • Advise clients on lease interpretation, risk management, default remedies, and property-related legal issues

About the company

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Trueline

Staffing & Recruiting

Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do? Everything we do revolves around ROI—improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business. Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management. Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements. Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports. Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges—like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity—it’s a good look on you. Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships. Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryStaffing & Recruiting
Company size11 - 50

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Job description

Trueline's client, a well-established boutique law firm specializing in commercial real estate and landlord representation, is seeking an experienced Associate Attorney to join their team remotely in Southern California.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a seasoned litigator who enjoys both litigation and transactional work and wants to practice at a high level without the bureaucracy of a large firm. You'll work directly with sophisticated commercial landlords, developers, and property owners while handling meaningful matters from strategy through resolution.

What You'll Do as the Associate Attorney:

  • Represent commercial landlords in complex lease disputes, unlawful detainer actions, and breach of lease matters
  • Draft and negotiate commercial leases, amendments, assignments, guaranties, and related agreements
  • Manage litigation from initial strategy through trial, including pleadings, discovery, motions, depositions, hearings, and settlement negotiations
  • Advise clients on lease interpretation, risk management, default remedies, and property-related legal issues
  • Appear in California state courts throughout the litigation process
  • Build trusted relationships with sophisticated commercial real estate clients
  • Collaborate directly with firm leadership on legal strategy and complex matters

Must-Haves as the Associate Attorney:

  • Active member of the California Bar
  • Approximately 15+ years of litigation experience
  • Significant experience handling commercial landlord-tenant matters
  • Strong understanding of commercial lease drafting, review, and interpretation
  • Experience independently managing hearings, motions, and trials
  • Exceptional legal writing, analytical, and advocacy skills
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating with a close-knit team
  • Outstanding communication and client relationship skills

Nice-to-Haves as the Associate Attorney:

  • Experience representing shopping center owners, developers, REITs, or commercial property management companies
  • Strong transactional commercial real estate background
  • Experience with mediation and alternative dispute resolution
  • Existing relationships within the Southern California commercial real estate community

This Role Offers:

  • Base salary of $200,000-$240,000
  • Performance-based annual bonus with flexibility for exceptional candidates
  • Fully remote work for candidates located in Southern California
  • Opportunity to work with nationally recognized commercial landlords and developers
  • High-level litigation and transactional work without Big Law bureaucracy
  • Direct access to firm leadership and meaningful client interaction
  • Collaborative boutique environment where experience and judgment are valued
  • Long-term opportunity to become an integral part of a highly respected niche practice

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