Laterals
Rutan
Attorneys
Rutan is committed to developing and promoting associates internally. However, the addition of strong lateral attorneys is also integral to our firm’s strategic growth. We are continuously striving to create a firm culture that embodies the core values of Rutan: teamwork, excellence, responsiveness and integrity. If you are looking for a lateral attorney position, please email spatton@rutan.com.
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Rutan & Tucker is currently seeking an experienced and highly skilled transactional attorney for its Orange County office with an emphasis on affordable housing transactions and other tax credit related projects. Remote candidates for this position will be considered.
Candidates must be licensed in California and ideally will have at least four (4) years of experience advising clients in the following areas:
- Structuring, negotiating, and documenting partnership and other joint venture agreements, including those involving low-income housing tax credits (“LIHTC”), with an understanding of the tax and regulatory framework governing LIHTC - including the requirements for obtaining LIHTC and ongoing compliance requirements.
- Drafting joint venture agreements on behalf of developers across a variety of real estate transactions.
- Serving in the capacity as a lead advisor to affordable housing developers utilizing various sources of debt and equity financing (and be comfortable delivering practical and solution-oriented counsel directly to such clients).
The attorney will play a critical role in advising clients on tax-efficient structuring for various types of real estate projects, providing strategic guidance on structuring joint ventures and ensuring the successful use of tax credits and other incentives. The candidate should possess a strong understanding of partnership tax matters in order to identify tax issues, ensure compliance, and mitigate risk.
A portable book of business is preferred but is not required for the right candidate.
Salary Range: $350,000 – $600,000 (including estimated bonus). Actual salary will depend upon several factors, including relevant experience, job-related skills, other qualifications, and billings. Compensation is negotiable for more senior-level attorneys and partner candidates.
Rutan & Tucker is seeking 2-3 mid-level to senior level associates (4–7+ years of experience) to join our Financial Practices Group in either our San Francisco or Irvine office. The ideal candidates will have meaningful experience with (1) commercial finance and/or real estate finance transactions, (2) drafting and negotiating loan and security documents, and (3) managing transactions from inception to closing.
Candidates should have a solid understanding of UCC Article 9 or real estate secured lending, or both. Experience representing both lenders and borrowers is also a plus. Applicants must be California-admitted attorneys with a strong academic background from a top law school and/or experience at a firm with a comparable finance or real estate lending practice to Rutan.
The successful candidates will have the opportunity to work closely with our highly experienced and collaborative team of finance attorneys on a wide range of debt financing transactions, both on the lender-side and on the borrower-side. The practice group provides strong mentoring and sponsorship, with real partnership opportunities.
If you have the necessary qualifications and the desire to advance your career in a sophisticated and dynamic finance practice, please contact Samantha Patton (spatton@rutan.com).
Salary Range: $220,000 – $330,000 depending on experience.
Rutan & Tucker, LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
Privacy associate sought by Rutan & Tucker, LLP, one of California’s largest full-service law firms with a successful and expanding intellectual property practice. Applicants should have at least 2-3 years of practical privacy/data protection experience and be a California-admitted attorney from a firm with a comparable intellectual property practice and a top law school with solid grades.
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work closely in a collaborative, low ego environment with our highly experienced team of intellectual property attorneys and paraprofessionals, representing a diverse group of reputable and well-established clients, including local, national, and international corporations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. This position will provide an excellent opportunity for responsibility, learning and career growth, including a realistic prospect of partnership, and consideration for flexible hybrid work location arrangements. Our brand-new headquarters at The Boardwalk in Irvine, CA, offers state-of-the-art workplace design and technology, and is located in one of the greatest places in the world to live and work – just minutes from some of Southern California’s best beach communities and shopping and a short drive from both desert and local mountain resort communities.
Salary Range: $215k – 245k
Ideally, the candidate will have experience assisting with one or more of the following:
- Privacy compliance (including under U.S. state privacy laws, GDPR, HIPAA, and GLBA);
- Advertising, Internet-based, and mobile privacy issues;
- Privacy program implementation and management;
- Regulatory investigations relating to privacy and data security issues;
- Data breach response and preparedness activities; and
- Drafting privacy notices, internal policies, incident response plans, and data processing addenda (DPAs).
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- Minimum 2-3 years of practical privacy/data protection experience
- J.D. and CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, or CIPT certifications
- Solid knowledge of and familiarity with U.S. and EU privacy and data security laws, regulations, and standards, including CCPA, HIPAA, GDPR, and other U.S. state and federal privacy, data security, breach notification, artificial intelligence, consumer protection and employment-related privacy laws, regulations, and proposed legislation
- Demonstrated transactional experience, including reviewing, drafting and negotiating privacy and data protection contract terms and agreements, such as DPAs and other data processing, usage, and/or transfer agreements
- Experience with implementing incident response plans, responding to data security incidents and advising on applicable legal requirements
- Strong academic credentials
- Superior written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks and prioritize under tight time constraints
- Self-motivated and independent, but able to discern when matters should be escalated and when further guidance is needed
- Ability to translate legal requirements into practical guidance for non-lawyers
- Active membership and good standing in at least one State Bar
If you have the necessary qualifications and the desire to advance your career in an exciting and sophisticated litigation practice, please contact Samantha Patton at spatton@rutan.com.
Rutan & Tucker, LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
Intellectual Property attorney sought by Rutan & Tucker, LLP, one of California’s largest full-service law firms with an established and expanding intellectual property practice. Applicants should have at least three years of experience representing clients in intellectual property transactions, be a California-admitted attorney from a firm with a comparable intellectual property practice and a top law school with solid grades, and be admitted to practice before the USPTO.
The established applicant will have the opportunity to work closely in a collaborative, low ego environment with our highly experienced team of intellectual property attorneys and paraprofessionals, representing a diverse group of reputable and well-established clients, including local, national, and international corporations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. This position will provide an excellent opportunity for responsibility, learning and career growth, including a realistic prospect of partnership, and consideration for flexible work location arrangements (e.g., working remotely).
At Rutan & Tucker, we are dedicated to the belief that the practice of law is a profession, not just a business, and that being a professional means working hard, but also maintaining balance. This means taking time for our families, ourselves and communities. We are an equal opportunity employer and are proud of commitment to inclusion in our workplace.
Our brand new headquarters at The Boardwalk in Irvine, CA offers state-of-the-art workplace design and technology, and is located in one of the greatest places in the world to live and work – just minutes from some of Southern California’s best beach communities and shopping and a short drive from both desert and local mountain resort communities.
If you have the necessary qualifications and the desire to advance your career in an exciting and sophisticated intellectual property practice, please contact Samantha Patton (spatton@rutan.com).
Salary Range: $205,000 – $215,000
Rutan & Tucker, LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
Patent agent sought by Rutan & Tucker, LLP, one of California’s largest full-service law firms with an established and expanding intellectual property practice. Applicants should have at least five years of experience representing clients in intellectual property transactions with a background with any of the following technologies: mechanical, material science, medical devices, computer science, biotechnology and/or artificial intelligence/machine learning and data analytics, and be admitted to practice before the USPTO.
The established applicant will have the opportunity to work closely in a collaborative, low ego environment with our highly experienced team of intellectual property attorneys and paraprofessionals, representing a diverse group of reputable and well-established clients, including local, national, and international corporations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. This position will provide an excellent opportunity for responsibility, learning and career growth, including a realistic prospect of partnership, and consideration for flexible work location arrangements (e.g., working remotely).
At Rutan & Tucker, we are dedicated to the belief that the practice of law is a profession, not just a business, and that being a professional means working hard, but also maintaining balance. This means taking time for our families, ourselves and communities. We are an equal opportunity employer and are proud of commitment to inclusion in our workplace.
Our brand new headquarters at The Boardwalk in Irvine, CA offers state-of-the-art workplace design and technology, and is located in one of the greatest places in the world to live and work – just minutes from some of Southern California’s best beach communities and shopping and a short drive from both desert and local mountain resort communities.
If you have the necessary qualifications and the desire to advance your career in an exciting and sophisticated intellectual property practice, please contact Samantha Patton (spatton@rutan.com).
Salary Range: $140,000 – $170,000
Rutan & Tucker, LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
Rutan & Tucker is seeking an attorney with 3-7 years of transactional real estate experience to join our real estate section that consists of 30 real estate attorneys (all currently located in the Irvine office). The ideal candidate will have significant experience representing clients on acquisitions and dispositions, and borrower-side finance.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to represent a diverse group of reputable and well-established clients, including developers, owners, operators, investors, and borrowers across multiple asset classes.
The real estate section prides itself on its tight-knit culture, with strong mentorship and sponsorship opportunities, and a realistic chance to make both income and equity partner.
If you are interested in learning more, please contact Samantha Patton (spatton@rutan.com).
Applicants must be California-admitted attorneys.
Salary Range: $260,000 – $330,000 (base compensation) depending on experience, with bonuses that can exceed bonuses at the top of the market (Cravath).
Rutan & Tucker, LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
Rutan & Tucker is looking to add a 4–6-year associate attorney to its intellectual property practice.
In this role, the successful candidate’s responsibilities will include:
- Working directly with a wide variety of domestic and international clients in developing and managing their IP portfolio, including a significant amount of global trademark prosecution
- Providing day-to-day guidance on the IP aspects of client businesses such as counseling during the product-development process and providing advertising and packaging clearance
- Drafting IP-related business agreements and supporting the firm’s corporate department in relation to business transactions that implicate various aspects of intellectual property
- Assist in the enforcement of intellectual property rights online including working with online retail platforms, social media platforms to protect the client’s rights, as well as handling formal domain-name dispute proceedings
Required Qualifications/Skills:
- Minimum 4-6 years of trademark prosecution and IP transaction experience
- Significant experience handling trademark clearance, prosecution, counseling, and enforcement for domestic and international trademark portfolios with a general understanding of jurisdictional differences worldwide.
- Demonstrated experience conducting comprehensive global and domestic trademark clearance searches and reviewing and advising on comprehensive searches
- Strong contract drafting skills with experience negotiating and drafting IP-related business agreements including licenses, co-existence agreements, and right of publicity/NIL/influencer agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, as well as the IP-related terms of larger business transaction agreements
- Experience handling online IP enforcement and brand protection proceedings including takedowns on social media and online retail platforms, DMCA notices, and domain name disputes, including UDRPs.
- Performing IP due diligence in corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, and financing events
- Product and advertising review and clearance
- Experience communicating with a diverse clientele, from laypeople to highly experienced legal professionals, tailoring communications to each client's specific needs and level of understanding
- Experience communicating with clients and legal professionals around the world
- Working knowledge of copyright law (prosecution experience is helpful)
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school
- Active membership and good standing in at least one State Bar
- Strong research, analytical, grammar, and writing skills
- Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to independently manage multiple tasks and prioritize under tight time constraints
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work in a collaborative, autonomous and fast-paced environment with our highly experienced team of intellectual property attorneys and paraprofessionals, representing a diverse group of reputable and well-established clients, including local, national, and international companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. This position will provide an excellent opportunity for responsibility, learning and career growth, and consideration for flexible hybrid work location arrangements. Our headquarters at The Boardwalk in Irvine, CA, offers state-of-the-art workplace design and technology, and is in one of the greatest places in the world to live and work – just minutes from some of Southern California’s best beach communities and shopping and a short drive from both desert and local mountain resort communities.
*Position open to part-time*
Salary Range: $220k-$250k
If you have the necessary qualifications and the desire to advance your career in an exciting and sophisticated practice, please contact Samantha Patton at spatton@rutan.com.
Rutan & Tucker, LLP is an equal opportunity employer.