Litigation Counsel

Why Clipboard Exists:

We exist to lift as many people up the socioeconomic ladder as possible. We dramatically improve lives by letting professionals turn extra time and ambition into career growth and financial opportunity. We achieve this with our app-based marketplace that connects workplaces and professionals, allowing professionals to book on-demand shifts and workplaces to access on-demand talent.

About Clipboard:

Clipboard is a fast-growing Series C marketplace. We are a leader in our Long Term Care vertical and are expanding into several others (Dental Offices, Schools, etc). 
We are a YC Top Company with a global, remote team of 700+ people. We have been profitable since 2022, and fill millions of shifts annually at partner workplaces across the US, where tens of thousands of professionals work with us every year.
We are looking for your help to keep growing so we can serve more professionals and workplaces.
To learn more about us, take a look at our website here.

About the role:

This isn’t the type of in-house counsel position where you will be siloed into a few narrow workstreams or deal with the same issue day after day. At Clipboard Health, you’ll be tasked with tackling novel legal challenges, flexing different muscles across various areas of law, and making high-impact decisions in a fast-moving environment.

You have both the sharp instincts of a high-stakes litigator and an entrepreneurial spirit. You crave a creative and collaborative—rather than purely adversarial—experience in the law. You are a skilled and concise writer and communicator, and excel at and enjoy detail-oriented tasks, fact-finding, and investigative work. You have a strong degree of curiosity and are particularly adept at identifying subtle clues which may be indicative of a much wider and important universe of issues you need to dive into. You can navigate fairly esoteric internal databases to collect and digest complex sets of data. You are eager to bring your experience with litigation and investigations to an in-house role on a small and supportive team that affords opportunity for professional growth. You look forward to channeling your skills as a litigator into supporting and advocating for a mission-driven and groundbreaking business. You embrace and are not daunted by ambiguity or a challenge, have a perennially positive attitude, and are eager to help build a legal department and support the business in a fast-paced environment. You enjoy taking the lead on projects, and naturally take the initiative to solve problems and improve and streamline systems and processes. 

Responsibilities:

• Manage various litigation workstreams relating to independent contractor classification, including but not limited to matters relating to unemployment insurance claims and workers compensation.
• Partner with the Senior Litigation Counsel and outside counsel on managing high-stakes litigation matters, including by taking a lead role with the company’s discovery/litigation hold strategy, drafting responsive pleadings, briefs, and other important documents.
• Take full ownership of the Company’s unpaid revenue litigation strategy, including managing a docket of affirmative litigation matters, partnering with various company finance teams, creating business-savvy protocols and guidance for proactively mitigating accounts receivable risk.
• Manage the company’s third-party subpoena and law enforcement response strategy, including by improving our subpoena response playbook.
• Provide legal guidance to a wide range of cross function teams, including the Company’s product team. 

What success looks like 90 days in:

• You are deeply familiar with all pending litigation and investigation matters and have taken over leadership of more than one such matter, including communicating and coordinating with outside counsel and internal stakeholders.
• You have a deep understanding of the company’s internal databases and can quickly collect and analyze complex sets of data, both for the purposes of developing proactive risk mitigation strategies and responding to high-stakes litigation document requests.
• You fully own the unemployment, workers compensation workstreams and revenue collection workstreams and can operate completely independently on these fronts with minimal supervision.
• You have systematized and now lead the company’s third-party subpoena response process. 
• You are contributing to legal strategy decisions made by the Head of Legal.

Need to have:

• JD, admission to the California bar, with at least 5 years of experience
• Bias toward action and solving (not just spotting) problems
• Ability to take ownership of your work and manage projects independently
• Excellent communication and writing abilities
• Comfort and skill in navigating complexity and ambiguity, and working on a leanly staffed team
• Willingness to quickly dive into new and “unfamiliar” legal issues 
• Ability to work under pressure and autonomously, and meet tight deadlines
• Agility and flexibility to take on new tasks and responsibilities when necessary to support the business and legal team’s needs in a fast-moving, rapidly scaling, and dynamic tech company
• Willingness and ability to engage with and interpret data, especially from unfamiliar sources

Nice to have:

• Experience handling arbitrations and class actions
• Clerkship experience
• Government experience
• Experience working cross-culturally and with diverse, global teams

The base salary range for this position is $190,000 to $220,000. This role will also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus (paid on a quarterly basis) and/or equity compensation.

The range provided is Clipboard’s reasonable estimate of the salary for this role. The actual amount may differ based on factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location.