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You must have a dedicated, distraction-free workspace with reliable high-speed internet during all working hours.\nWork hours: 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Eastern Time.\nYou must reside in a U.S. state within one (1) hour of Eastern Time (ET or CT time zones).\nYou must be authorized to permanently work in the U.S. as a U.S. Citizen or active Green Card holder. No visa sponsorship is available for this role.\nRequirements\nConsumer Class Action Attorney | In-House Counsel\nUtiliSave LLC\nUtiliSave has recovered more than $700 million in hard-dollar refunds and credits for institutional owners and operators of real estate across the United States, uncovering savings in 94% of the clients we audit. We pursue claims with tenacity and legal rigor, and we are now building a class action practice to address systemic overcharges affecting multiple customers. We seek an exceptional Consumer Class Action Attorney to lead this strategic expansion.\nFor over 35 years, UtiliSave has led the utility bill auditing industry and we are still growing. Our legal team is evolving to include class action litigation expertise. We are seeking a Consumer Class Action Attorney with 7+ years of plaintiff-side class action experience to develop and lead consumer class action cases arising from utility billing disputes, regulatory non-compliance, and systemic overcharges. This role offers the rare opportunity to build a novel litigation practice at a mission-driven company with the resources to pursue cases aggressively.\nUtiliSave's success is built on tenacity, integrity, and an unrelenting commitment to our clients' best interests. Our auditors are thorough, detail-oriented, and persistent; they fight for claims others walk away from, and they win. Our legal team brings the same out-of-the-box thinking to every engagement, uncovering novel legal theories and pursuing cases where others see only obstacles. If you are driven by the same values-honest, rigorous, creative, and ceaseless in pursuit of results-you will thrive here.\nOur clients include manufacturers, hospitals, nursing homes, commercial and residential buildings, universities, hotels, religious institutions, and government facilities. Across these sectors, we routinely uncover evidence of systemic utility overcharges, billing errors, and regulatory violations. We believe many of these claims warrant class action treatment. You will develop case theories, vet claims, pursue discovery, negotiate settlements, and represent classes in litigation. This is an opportunity to leverage your consumer class action expertise in a new domain-utility cost recovery-with significant upside and genuine potential to recover substantial damages on behalf of injured consumers.\nWhat You'll Build Here\nYou will own UtiliSave's consumer class action practice from the ground up. This role is foundational to a major strategic initiative. You will identify cases with class certification potential, develop litigation strategy, manage discovery, negotiate with defendants and co-counsel, and ensure all matters comply with CAFA and applicable state class action rules. You will work directly with executive leadership to evaluate new cases and allocate resources. As we scale the practice toward multiple active cases, your role will expand with associate and paralegal support added as demand grows.\nApply via email to  with the subject line Consumer Class Action Attorney.\nResponsibilities\nIdentify, evaluate, and vet consumer class action opportunities arising from utility billing disputes, rate design violations, regulatory non-compliance, and systemic overcharges.\nDevelop case theories, substantive claims, and litigation strategies; assess class certification likelihood, damages potential, and settlement value.\nDraft pleadings, motions, discovery requests, and other litigation documents with precision and strategic acuity.\nManage discovery process; produce documents, respond to interrogatories, and conduct/defend depositions.\nNegotiate with defendants, opposing counsel, and co-counsel on settlement terms; structure class-wide recovery and administration.\nRepresent UtiliSave and class members at hearings, depositions, mediation, and trial.\nDevelop novel applications of consumer protection law and class action doctrine to utility billing and cost recovery disputes.\nCoordinate with outside counsel when appropriate; manage relationships with expert witnesses, claims administrators, and co-counsel.\nAdvise executive team on litigation strategy, risk allocation, and case portfolio decisions.\nWork collaboratively with audit team to translate audit findings into class action claims and evidence packages.\nRequirements\nLicensed to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction (multi-state license preferred).\nMinimum 7 years of experience in consumer class action litigation, with substantial plaintiff-side experience preferred.\nDemonstrated expertise in class action law, including class certification, CAFA jurisdiction, discovery management, and settlement negotiation.\nStrong substantive knowledge of consumer protection statutes (FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, state consumer protection acts, etc.).\nProven success developing novel legal theories and pursuing cases in emerging or complex legal domains.\nExceptional legal research, writing, and oral advocacy; clear, persuasive communication in briefs, presentations, and depositions.\nStrategic thinker who can assess case portfolio, prioritize resources, and make data-informed litigation decisions.\nStrong negotiation and settlement skills; 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