Associate Counsel, Litigation

$144,000 - $180,000/Yr

Lyft - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation

About the position

Lyft is seeking a sharp, dynamic, and self-motivated attorney with at least 4 years of litigation experience to serve as a trusted advisor to multiple internal business partners. This role focuses on minimizing legal risk to the company while achieving Lyft's business goals at the intersection of law, policy, and technology. The successful candidate will be entrepreneurial, resourceful, and skilled at building strong relationships in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Primary responsibility for a wide variety of litigation matters, pre-litigation dispute resolution, internal counseling, and other legal disputes, with an emphasis on consumer litigation, tort claims, and intellectual property litigation.
• Proactively approach all aspects of litigation, including discovery, motion practice, witness preparation, settlement negotiations, and trial and appellate strategies.
• Work closely with internal business partners to provide strategic and proactive legal advice on litigation and regulatory matters.
• Provide strategic recommendations to cross-functional teams addressing sensitive trust and safety matters.
• Provide legal guidance to departments such as Compliance, Operations, Public Policy, Communications, Customer Experience & Trust, Product, and Engineering.
• Manage outside counsel in areas of coverage, including tactical guidance, staffing, case management, budgeting, and alignment with Lyft's broader legal strategy.

Requirements

• J.D. degree from a top-tier law school and membership in at least one state bar.
• 4+ years civil litigation experience at a mid to large size law firm.
• Strong preference for candidates with prior in-house experience.
• Prior experience with complex litigation, consumer litigation, tort matters, and/or intellectual property litigation.
• Excellent problem-solving capabilities, strategic thinking, judgment, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to operate autonomously while being a team player with a positive attitude.
• Executive presence and ability to communicate legal risks and recommendations to senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to make decisions and influence through excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Understanding of the multi-modal transportation and ridesharing industries, as well as the sharing economy in general.
• Passion for Lyft and the ridesharing community.

Benefits

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Unlimited paid time off for salaried team members
• 15 days paid time off for hourly team members
• 401(k) plan
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Lyft Pink - exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of the Ridership Program