Corporate Counsel – Legal Affairs, Litigation
Midland Credit Management, an Encore Capital Group Company
Director, Assistant General Counsel – Labor Law
DaVita Kidney Care
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: El Segundo • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $161,000 - $236,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Providing guidance to the Company, Senior Executives, and the Company’s Labor Relations team including, labor relations and law, union campaigns, and matters before state agencies and the NLRB
- Manage outside counsel on unfair labor practice proceedings, including managing costs to ensure effective use of resources
- Conducting management training regarding labor relations and federal and California workplace issues
- Advising senior management and DaVita business units on labor compliance and risk management to accomplish business objectives without undue risk
- Keeping the Company’s senior management abreast of significant NLRB decisions, legislation and rulings that may affect the Company’s business or policy
- Developing a thorough understanding of and familiarity with the Company's business, its people, markets, facilities, customers and competitors in order to identify trends and formulate appropriate structures and strategies
- Establishing a rapport and working relationship with teammates at all levels in order to encourage and continue the proactive use of in-house legal counsel
- Performing special assignments or projects
- Depending on location, must be able to travel a minimum of 25%.
Requirements
- J.D. Degree with minimum 10 years of legal experience
- 7-10 years of traditional labor experience, including labor relations and law, union campaigns, and matters before state agencies and the NLRB
- Experience working with healthcare clients and unions (i.e., SEIU-UHW, NNU, etc.) is a plus, but not required
- A State bar qualification and good standing
- Law firm experience required; additional in-house experience a plus
- Strong alignment with DaVita’s Mission and Core Values
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral
- Unquestioned integrity and ethics.
- Assertive and a self-starter
- Maturity and strong interpersonal skills; one whose counsel and judgment are actively sought
- Keen understanding of business and commerce, the ability to diagnose legal problems, and present positive, creative solutions and alternatives for management
- Bright individual who is a “quick study” and grasps issues quickly
- Not hindered by an overly bureaucratic and structured approach to solving problems
- Possesses good stamina and humor
- Able to work well under pressure in a fast moving, dynamic company.
- Maturity and flexibility to work effectively with senior management, subordinates and operations personnel
- Interpersonal skills to be team participant with legal background rather than just the lawyer to the team
- Key ability to accomplish tasks of both a recurring nature up to complicated analysis in a high volume, fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
- Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more
- Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
labor relationsunion campaignsNLRB proceedingsrisk managementlegal compliancemanagement traininglegal problem diagnosiscreative legal solutionshealthcare lawlaw firm experience
Soft skills
strong communication skillsintegrityassertivenessinterpersonal skillsmaturityflexibilityteam collaborationproblem-solvingstaminahumor
Certifications
J.D. DegreeState bar qualification
