Associate: Commercial Litigation

The opportunity

White Our Dispute Resolution practice specializes in representing clients in high-stakes business disputes across a wide range of industries. By leveraging our deep legal expertise, global reach and strategic insights, we help clients navigate complex legal challenges, protect their business interests, and achieve favorable outcomes through both court proceedings and alternative dispute resolution methods.

As an Associate, you will have excellent judgment and analytical skills, and broad subject matter experience across commercial litigation, international arbitration, and regulatory issues. Highly organised and self-motivated, you’ll be a team player with a strong professional presence and client focus.

At White & Case, we’ll support you, give you responsibility and welcome you as an integral member of our diverse, international team from day one. We foster a collegial working environment where partners are friendly and accessible, and colleagues always supportive and open to questions. 

Key responsibilities

• Represent leading technology clients on high-stakes litigation and regulatory disputes across the APAC region. 
• Develop litigation strategy and draft substantive pleadings for matters throughout the globe – ranging from data protection, defamation, IP infringement, contract and other disputes – and oversee on-the-ground counsel to implement strategy. 
• Advise clients on risk assessments associated with newly developed products, policies, and business structures, as well as with proposed legislation and regulations across the world. 
• Draft submissions and other documents for international matters.
• Coordinate experts and local counsel engagements. 

The skills and attributes we are looking for

• 2-5 years of commercial litigation/arbitration experience 
• Experience with a top domestic or international law firm 
• Admission: SG or US
• US law degree and bar qualification preferred but not mandatory 
• Ability to synthesize legal concepts and strategy into easy-to-digest client advice, including for non-legal business stakeholders
• Excellent drafting skills, with an eye for accuracy of facts and presenting the arguments in the most compelling manner possible 
• Attention to detail
• Commercial/business awareness
• Strong academic record and intellectual curiosity, creative thinker
• Team player, who adopts a ‘firm/team first’ mindset
• Take ownership and accountability for tasks
• Outstanding communication skills
• Self starter and takes ownership of career development
• Resilient, solutions-focused and can work effectively and productively under pressure
• Client service focus

What We Offer

At White & Case, you can make a real difference, work on cutting-edge deals that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential as a global lawyer.

We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a lawyer and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.

We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation.

About White & Case

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers operating from more than 47 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It’s not just about our global network of offices; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work.

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative and committed to excellence. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.

How to apply 

Interested? Please apply by submitting your CV and transcripts for further consideration. 

White & Case is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

For further assistance or queries regarding this opportunity please reach out to Jennifer Lau at jennifer.lau@whitecase.com 

Note to recruitment agencies: we do not work with recruitment agencies for this role. Candidates submitted by an agency will not be considered a formal introduction. 

Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the APAC Recruitment team.