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The firm offers a dynamic practice, enviable roster of clients, and collegial work environment to accomplished individuals who demonstrate superior client service focus, leadership potential, and a commitment to the values of the firm.

Lawyer and Summer Law Clerk Hiring

Hahn & Hahn LLP maintains an active recruitment program to locate and hire the best-qualified attorneys to practice with our firm. We are always interested in strong candidates to address specific hiring needs as they may arise from time to time. We invite candidates with strong law school records or large firm experience to inquire about our current opportunities.

Please contact the firm's Hiring Partners, Candice K. Rogers and Lucy A. Vartanian at [email protected].

Current Lawyer Opportunities

Senior Tax Attorney

Hahn & Hahn LLP seeks a well-qualified candidate with 10+ years experience in counseling clients in matters relating to federal and California individual and business tax planning, including income, estate, real property, and property taxes, ensuring compliance with federal and California state tax laws. This candidate will be assisting clients in succession planning along with entity formation and governance for both business, tax -exempt entities and individual clients, as well as drafting essential business documents such as purchase and sale agreements, operating agreements, and buy-sell agreements. In addition, a successful candidate will play a key role in M&A transactions, conducting due diligence, drafting contracts, and providing legal guidance throughout the transaction process. The candidate should also be able to undertake work on corporate and business transactions, including mergers, reorganizations, acquisitions, dispositions, and dissolutions. Base salary is commensurate with experience and ranges from $200,000 to $300,000 for this position.

Senior Trust & Estates Attorney

Hahn & Hahn LLP seeks a seasoned Trust & Estates attorney with at least 10 years of strong experience advising high net worth individuals and families in all aspects of their estate and tax planning, as well as experience with trust and probate administration. This senior attorney will design/draft/implement estate plans and offer tax analysis and advice. The candidate should have some experience with real property transfers/distributions, fiduciary taxation and fiduciary accounting. Experience with succession planning, including the income taxation of corporate and partnership/LLC entities related to family business estate planning is preferred but not essential.

The qualified candidate will have strong academic and employment credentials, demonstrated ability to work independently and supervise junior attorneys, and the capacity to hit the ground running with existing client matters. Candidates should have a current and well-articulated business development plan. A portable book of business is not required. However, candidates who anticipate transferring an existing client base will receive priority review. The salary will be commensurate with experience, and ranges from $200,000 to $300,000 for this position.

Senior Business Attorney

Hahn & Hahn LLP provides a unique opportunity for business lawyers to have a significant impact and provide tremendous value for clients, C-Suite executives and the boards with which they work – well beyond the narrow scope of a highly specialized corporate, finance or real estate practice. Many of our business lawyers serve in the role of outside general counsel for various privately held company clients. We advise on myriad business issues, from the day to day to the strategic, from capital markets to financing, from business structuring to crisis management, from collegial business startups to dysfunctional equity ownership, and everything in between. We structure, negotiate and document complex transactions for public and private companies, families and individuals. Our clients range from startups to multi-generational enterprises to long time institutional businesses, across the industry landscape, including operating businesses and business owners in the tech, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, restaurants, fitness, and professional services sectors; real property owners, operators, investors, developers, contractors and managers; institutional and private lenders; non-profit entities; and community stakeholders.

We are currently seeking a senior business attorney to join our business practice group. The successful candidate will be a dynamic attorney with at least 10 years of sophisticated transactional business experience in two or more of our practice area skills sets, and a desire and aptitude to become proficient in other aspects of our business practice. By way of example, our practice includes business entity structuring and formation, capital structures, capital and financing transactions, corporate and entity governance, general business advice and counsel, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and affiliations, land use planning, property tax planning, real estate and personal property leasing, commercial and residential real estate transactions and projects, exempt securities transactions and structuring and negotiating complex agreements and other business arrangements. Our work includes assisting partnerships and private companies manage through and resolve partner, shareholder and/or board conflicts and disputes and myriad other business disputes. Base salary will be commensurate with experience, and ranges from $200,000 to $300,000 for this position.

Real Estate Attorney

Hahn & Hahn LLP seeks a highly qualified attorney with 5+ years of active general real property practice and experience to join our team. We advise for-profit and non-profit entities, developers, property owners, and community stakeholders on all aspects of their real estate needs. We seek an outgoing, dynamic lawyer with a passion for advocacy and substantial experience with general real estate matters (purchase and sales, leases, secured real property transactions, real estate development and construction, land use, real property taxes, environmental risk management, etc.). Experience with business matters relating to real estate is a plus, such as creating new business entities, private placements, and financing matters and transactions. Base salary is commensurate with experience and ranges from $165,000 to $200,000 for an associate position and from $200,000 to $300,000 for Of Counsel attorneys.

Staff Hiring

Hahn & Hahn LLP has openings from time to time for paralegal, secretarial, and clerical staff. If you feel you have the necessary qualifications, please forward your resume to Executive Director, Gail Reysa, at [email protected].

Current Staff Opportunities

Legal Secretary for Trust & Estates / Probate

Successful candidates in our Trust & Estates Department will be proactive contributors with a robust knowledge of estate, trust, and probate procedures and practices. Core responsibilities for this position include professional communication with clients and potential clients, preparing trust and estate documents, drafting and recording deeds, affidavits and PCORs, filing corporate and LLC organization and maintenance documents with the Secretary of State, familiarity with probate rules and court filing procedures, scheduling client meetings, and most importantly, anticipating and acting on attorney and client needs. Hahn & Hahn values teamwork and our staff and attorneys work closely together in a highly collaborative and professional environment. This position is available due to an upcoming retirement.

The salary range for this position is $70,000 to $95,000, depending on experience and credentials. Candidates seeking a salary at the top of the range should have demonstrated trust & estates experience, a notary license, probate experience, and a 4-year college degree. The firm offers a robust benefits package, including a transportation allowance, high quality medical insurance through Blue Shield and Kaiser, and 401K contributions of up to 8.5% of salary upon meeting plan eligibility.

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Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

Hahn & Hahn is a certified Women Owned Business Enterprise. We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in all of our business practices, including the hiring and retention of employees. Individuals belonging to historically marginalized groups are encouraged to apply. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants, and we prohibit discrimination and/or harassment of any type, including on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual or affectional orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.