Senior Legal Counsel, Labor and Employment
Circle K
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Charlotte • Arizona, North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- On a daily basis, provide legal advice and counseling on a wide range of employment law issues and legal support to the business unit and operations HR teams
- Support ranges from explaining human resource fundamentals to HR employees to providing detailed analysis of legal risk of proposed actions or inactions
- On a routine basis, provide tactical and strategic legal advice and counseling to HR leadership, including advice on handling performance or conduct concerns of high-level employees
- Review and provide guidance on HR or employment related contracts and agreements to ensure that vendors and partners are required to comply with relevant employment law and Circle K requirements
- Draft, review, and provide advice on a host of employee agreements, including severance and separation agreements, offer letters, and accommodation agreements
- Partner with business units and HR teams to internally handle employment law claims, including demand letters, administrative charges, and administrative investigations
- When appropriate, develop strategies to resolve the claim through settlement
- Retain and manage outside counsel for lawsuits and employment law claims that business units and HR teams are unable to handle internally
- Ensure that outside counsel handles employment litigation matters in compliance with the outside counsel guidelines, adheres to approved budgets, and focuses on achieving the best outcome for Circle K
- Provide legal guidance to HR and operations on business reorganizations, reductions in force, and outsourcing employees and teams to vendors
Requirements
- JD required from an accredited law school
- Bar admission and license to practice law in the U.S., member in good standing
- Minimum of eight (8) years of experience, specifically in labor and employment law area of practice
- Prior experience working in a large law firm preferred
- Experience with employee health and welfare
- Ability to draft documents and policies in a concise manner for non-lawyers
- Must have advanced breadth and depth of practical and academic knowledge of federal, state, and municipal labor and employment laws/regulations
- Substantial experience with delivering advice and counsel to business clients such as Human Resources
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Self-motivated and able to quickly troubleshoot issues and provide solutions
- Ability to effectively collaborate in a team environment, take ownership of projects, and demonstrate independence needed to effectively and timely complete projects
- Extremely organized, strong ability to focus on details, demonstrate accuracy, maintain a high level of confidentiality, and excellent time management skills
- Adaptable to changing priorities and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high output environment
- Ability to travel as needed
Benefits
- Complete benefits packages (medical, dental, etc.)
- Possibility of enrolling in a defined contribution plan with employer contributions or a stock purchase plan
- Employee discounts in stores and with multiple of our partners
- Paid time off plan including vacation, sick days and personal days
- Scholarship program available to the employee and the employee's children
- Work in a collaborative, dynamic and high performing team
- Learning opportunities to develop new skills and to evolve professionally in a fast-growing company
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
employment lawlabor lawcontract reviewdocument draftinglegal analysislegal counselinglitigation managementsettlement strategiescomplianceemployee agreements
Soft skills
written communicationverbal communicationself-motivatedproblem-solvingteam collaborationproject ownershiporganizational skillsattention to detailconfidentialitytime management
Certifications
JDBar admission