Senior Attorney, Litigation – Employment

Role Overview

• Employment Law – Assist with day-to-day legal support for the company’s human resources team for all employee matters, including employee relations, investigations, disability accommodations, performance management, compliance with labor/employment law, reductions-in-force, employee classification/exemption status and hiring, as well as benefits
• related matters. Support United States and global human resources teams, working with outside counsel as appropriate. Responsible for updating employee-related agreements, such as new hire agreement and company severance agreement, as well as maintaining repository of current agreements. Evaluate applicability of post-employment restrictions to potential hires and former employees. Review, develop, and draft policies and procedures, necessary to support the proper and legal functioning of human resources team. Actively monitor developments in employment law.
• Litigation – Assist with management of all legal disputes on a global basis, including all litigation, discovery-related matters and administrative actions, such as EEOC charges. Manage (where appropriate, together with outside counsel) discovery and e-discovery process, including collection and review of records subject to production in litigations and other disputes. Oversee legal hold life-cycle and ensure maintenance of defensible process, including drafting and issuing legal hold notices/related preservation notices; engaging in requisite record preservation/retention in connection with legal hold process; interviewing records custodians to ensure preservation of all necessary records; and administering/maintaining current legal hold record-keeping, including updating appropriate logs and overseeing storage of electronic and other assets subject to legal holds. Develop and draft litigation, discovery and legal hold policy and process documents. Implement litigation operations management procedure ensuring compliance with stakeholder requirements (e.g., finance) at the beginning and end of litigations. Produce global reporting on litigations and disputes, support quarterly disclosure process, including the management of legal reserves, and manage reporting to insurance company. Provide support to and liaise with the compliance team on compliance issues and policies.
• Dispute Resolution and Support Customer/Data Operations – Manage/resolve claims/disputes with third parties, including but not limited to vendors, customers, and data subjects. Initiate, respond to and handle cease and desist matters. Serve as primary support for customer and data operations groups in handling claims/disputes/complaints/requests for information and subpoenas. Provide training and guidance, as appropriate, to customer and data operations groups, on the handling of disputes. Responsible for metrics and data collection on complaints/disputes.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) with 5+ years of employment litigation/counseling experience with a law firm, including independent handling of pleadings, discovery, motions, etc.; commercial litigation experience a plus.
• Substantial experience in e-discovery, including investigation, identification, preservation, review and production of electronic records.
• Substantial experience with legal hold process including drafting legal hold notices, engaging in defensible preservation efforts and advising clients or internal stakeholders on legal hold requirements. Strong knowledge of employment law (including, FMLA, FLSA, ADA, ADEA, Title VII, ERISA, whistleblower laws and state law counterparts) required. M&A experience, working knowledge of immigration law and OFCCP compliance a plus. Knowledge of the following preferred but not required: defamation, anti-corruption (FCPA); FCRA and TCPA; compliance/privacy-related laws and regulations including CCPA, GLBA, HIPPA, CAN-SPAM and, security breach notification laws. Demonstrated ability to apply the given requirements to all situations and to develop, implement and maintain adequate controls to meet all such requirements.
• Proven ability to thrive and deliver in a highly demanding, innovative and constantly changing corporate environment. Demonstrated ability to regularly re-prioritize risks, objectives and action plans based on an evolving corporate and regulatory landscape.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to drive results, to engage business colleagues and influence stake holders and decision makers within different geographic/global regions and operational responsibilities to achieve effective and desired outcomes. Proven track record of creative problem solving, building consensus, forging coalitions and leveraging relationships to achieve strategic objectives.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills – both oral and written, as well as good analytical and negotiation skills.
• Must be extremely detail-oriented and have strong organizational and project management skills.
• Able to work under limited supervision. Must be open to giving and receiving feedback.
• The ability to travel for work is required, although travel is not expected to exceed 5-10% of time annually and will be matter dependent and not on a consistent schedule.
• Understanding of and ability to ability to leverage AI as a legal tool, as well as awareness of AI legal issues, a plus.

Benefits

• Generous paid time off in your first year, increasing with tenure.
• Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave after one year of employment.
• Paid sick time to care for yourself or family members.
• Education assistance and extensive training resources.
• Do Good Program: Paid volunteer days & donation matching.
• Competitive 401k with company matching.
• Health & wellness benefits, including discounted Wellhub membership rates.
• Medical, dental & vision insurance for you, spouse/partner & dependents.