Employment Overview
Young Clement Rivers, LLP recognizes that recruiting, hiring and retaining top quality attorneys and staff members is integral to the firm’s goal of providing exceptional legal services.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Young Clement Rivers, LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The firm is committed to workforce diversity. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by state or federal law. M/F/D/V encouraged to apply.
Excerpts from our Mission Statement
It is the firm's mission to "... Promote a high quality of life and level of job satisfaction for the firm's professionals and staff by providing fair rewards and opportunities for individual development. Respect the talents people bring to their jobs and value the growth and development of people by investing in training and education, and by encouraging self-improvement."
Current openings
Below, we have listed opportunities for positions that are currently available:
- We do not have any open positions at this time
Please send resume and cover letter with salary history to:
Young Clement Rivers, LLP
Phyllis Walterhouse, Director of Human Resources
25 Calhoun Street, Suite 400, Charleston, SC 29401
Email: careers@ycrlaw.com or Fax: 843-579-1316
Compensation and Benefits
Our firm offers a competitive compensation and benefits package:
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- PTO (Paid Time Off program)
- Funeral Leave
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Unreimbursed Medical Flexible Spending Account
- Vision & Dental Flexible Spending Account
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- 401(k)
- Profit Sharing
- Paid Parking
Employees can elect to purchase the following additional benefits:
- Additional life insurance
- Dependent life insurance
- Cancer insurance
- Accident insurance
- Hospital Indemnity insurance
- Specified Health/Intensive Care insurance
- Supplemental short-term disability insurance
- Supplemental Dental insurance
Recruiting
Young Clement Rivers has a long tradition of utilizing its Summer Law Clerk program as a tool for recruiting top-quality Associates. Young Clement Rivers strives to provide its Summer Law Clerks with broad-based, practical exposure to the law. The firm begins the application and interview process for Summer Law Clerks during the previous September and typically hires only Second Year law students.
Young Clement Rivers participates in On-Campus Interviews (OCI) at the University of South Carolina, Charleston School of Law and other selected schools in September/October, and students at these schools are encouraged to apply through the OCI process. Young Clement Rivers also conducts individual interviews in our Charleston office for applicants from other law schools throughout the country.
Interested applicants are encouraged to forward their resume and cover letter to Kelly Murphy at 25 Calhoun Street, Suite 400, Charleston, SC 29401 for consideration. As in all areas of firm hiring, Young Clement Rivers places an emphasis on recruitment of minorities and encourages minority students to apply for Summer Law Clerk positions.
For Recruiting Inquiries
- Attorneys contact Joseph J. Tierney, Jr.
- Staff contact Phyllis Walterhouse
- Summer Clerkship Program applicants contact Kelly Murphy
Contact Young Clement Rivers, LLP
To inquire about a position with Young Clement Rivers, LLP call 843-577-4000 or contact the firm online.


