“We have a warmth at Perez Morris that you don’t always feel at other firms.”
Perez Morris is the largest certified women-owned law firm in the state of Ohio. With its headquarters in Columbus, the firm has recently expanded to nine offices located throughout the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England. Managing Partner Sarah Perez champions a culture of community and inclusivity, recognizing that today’s lawyers have different needs and values than previous generations. The firm offers a flexible work schedule that is particularly appealing to working parents.
“If you build a culture of trust, employees will thrive when they are allowed to spread their wings and take ownership of their career.”
Perez Morris has a flat organizational structure, instead of the traditional law firm partner-associate model. While unique for law firms, the idea of a flat structure has been gaining favor in popular culture. Cutting-edge businesses and organizations are turning to flat, collaborative structures to achieve pay equity, as well as other diversity, equity and inclusion goals in the workplace. Perez Morris’s model offers working parents a path to success, whereas the traditional law firm partner track often does not.
“We embrace that people have families, and those families are important not just to our employees, but to the health of our communities.”
With this model, our attorneys enjoy open collaboration, designed to provide the best possible team to meet each client’s needs. Leadership roles at Perez Morris are available to all and in some cases, rotate, to provide employees with flexibility and professional development opportunities. This structure does not mean there is a lack of leadership and/or growth opportunities. Instead, we focus on individual professional goals and growth plans that offer the flexibility and professional development opportunities to achieve career and professional advancement.
Open Positions
Workers' Compensation Attorney - Cleveland, Ohio
Perez Morris is a women-owned business defense law firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in Cleveland, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Our attorneys are licensed to practice across the country. We pride ourselves on being good people, doing great legal work, exceptionally well. We serve clients in industries ranging from retail to healthcare to manufacturing to transportation and logistics. We look for self-motivated, intelligent, business-minded, diverse attorneys who want to work at a firm passionate about investing in its people and in the communities where we live and work.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Workers’ Compensation Attorney to join our legal team meeting the following criteria:
- 3-6 years minimum prior experience in handling Ohio workers’ compensation matters, preferably on the defense side.
- Must also have experience handling general discovery matters, including taken depositions, interviewing witnesses, responding to written discovery, and preparing motions.
- Must be able to work independently on an assigned caseload.
- Exceptional attention to detail, strong writing and legal research skills and a strong work ethic.
- Entrepreneurial growth mindset for client development and practice management.
- Efficient time-management skills.
- Values collaboration, diverse perspective, and is able to work with a team to creatively solve problems.
- Willingness to be a productive member of a team.
- Licensed to practice law in the State of Ohio.
This position is for our Cleveland, Ohio office and has a starting salary of $95,000 and subject to increase according to experience level.
The firm offers a fully transparent compensation structure, full benefits, including paid holidays and vacation, health care insurance, 401k and an excellent work environment. Submit your cover letter, resume and a writing sample to Diane Kerley, Director of Firm Operations at [email protected].
Perez Morris is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage and intentionally seek diverse perspective and work to foster an environment of equity and inclusion.