Hybrid Senior Corporate Counsel – Employment Law, Leave & Accommodations

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About the role

  • Corporate Counsel managing employment law compliance and litigation, advising HR and business units. Focus on leave and accommodations issues within legal affairs at T-Mobile.

Responsibilities

  • Represent T-Mobile and handle leave-and-accommodations advice and litigation (primarily in arbitration)
  • Advise business units and Human Resources on other employment legal matters, primarily within the Customer Care line of business
  • Prepare agency position statements and demand-letter responses
  • Leverage your subject-matter expertise to advise on multi-jurisdiction leave and accommodation compliance, balancing legal risk with efficient plan administration
  • Engage and work with outside counsel to manage employment litigation, with a focus on leave and accommodations issues in employment arbitrations
  • Identify and implement creative litigation strategies and thoughtfully manage litigation costs
  • Provide practical, day-to-day counseling to HR and other internal clients to identify and manage employment legal risks outside the leave-and-accommodations arena
  • Prepare responses to agency charges and demand letters
  • Develop and review written HR policies, guidelines, templates, and forms
  • Develop and deliver legal training to HR and other internal clients
  • Provide employment law advice regarding internal investigations
  • Advise and help clients understand employment law related compliance issues
  • Counsel and advise clients on a wide variety of complex and developing employment-related legal and business issues

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience as an employment attorney, with relevant in-house and/or top law firm experience
  • Minimum 4 years, strongly prefer 6+ years, of focused work on leave and accommodation issues across the country
  • Ability to work independently and effectively despite ambiguity and rapid change
  • Excellent writing skills, with a focus on providing practical advice
  • Amazing oral communication skills, with a focus on clearly and simply conveying complex employment law concepts, risks, and options to HR and other internal clients
  • Strong judgement that allows you to properly weigh what’s best for our customers and our business, what’s best for our employees, and potential legal risks
  • Strong project management skills
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other legal and business professionals in a complex organization with a focus on delivering results efficiently
  • A keen business sense with negotiation and drafting skills
  • Ability to work efficiently, meet demanding deadlines, and balance multiple, and sometimes competing, priorities
  • Must be licensed, in good standing, to practice law in the US
  • At least 18 years of age
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • 401(k)
  • Employee stock grants
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays
  • Paid parental and family leave
  • Family building benefits
  • Back-up care
  • Enhanced family support
  • Childcare subsidy
  • Tuition assistance
  • College coaching
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • Voluntary AD&D coverage
  • Voluntary accident coverage
  • Voluntary life insurance
  • Voluntary disability insurance
  • Voluntary long-term care insurance
  • Mobile service & home internet discounts
  • Pet insurance
  • Access to commuter and transit programs

Job title

Senior Corporate Counsel – Employment Law, Leave & Accommodations

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$144,100 - $260,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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