Senior Legal Counsel overseeing investigations and compliance at Enbridge, ensuring ethical conduct and proper protocols across business units. Collaborating with multiple stakeholders to mitigate risks and provide training.
About the role
- Senior Legal Counsel providing legal counseling on labor and employment issues for Circle K. Collaborating with HR and legal teams across United States locations.
Responsibilities
- 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
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