Assistant General Counsel - Employment Law

April 14

🏄 California – Remote

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

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🏄 California – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $150k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Baker Tilly US

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Baker Tilly US is a professional services firm offering accounting, assurance, tax, and business advisory services. The company provides a wide range of services, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence consulting, ESG and sustainability advisory, and risk advisory. Baker Tilly serves numerous industries such as construction, energy, healthcare, higher education, and real estate by offering industry-specific insights and solutions. It is also part of the Baker Tilly International network, the 10th largest accountancy and advisory network globally.

Assurance • Tax • Analytics • Governance • Risk

5001 - 10000 employees

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Provide advice and counsel on all aspects of employment-related matters, including hiring and termination issues, discrimination and retaliation, leaves of absence, reasonable accommodations, wage and hour issues, restrictive covenants, independent contractor issues, statutory employee issues, and employee litigation. • Keep informed regarding changes in employment laws, trends, and best practices in order to provide practical advice to stakeholders on any revisions/updates to related policies and employment practices. • Review, interpret, and draft company policies and procedures. • Partner with outside counsel on employment litigation, reviewing pleadings, developing strategy, facilitating the gathering of information (documents, interviews); making recommendations at key stages in the process. • Develop professional credibility and relationships with internal and external stakeholders as well as manage relationships with outside counsel.

🎯 Requirements

• Require a Juris Doctor degree, admission to a state bar, and 7 years’ experience in employment law, preferably in a combination of large law firm experience and in-house experience. • Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills are essential for this role, as well as a practical, business forward mindset. • Demonstrated skills in the areas of time management, communication, interpersonal skills, relationship building, collaboration, and problem solving. • Strong leadership, project management, organizational and analytical skills, initiative, adaptability. • Excellent oral and written communication and customer service skills, including the ability to professionally communicate with a wide variety of individuals, and respond to inquiries in a timely, professional manner. • Ability to juggle and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously. • Ability to work well both independently and as a member of a team. • Microsoft Suite skills • Eligibility to work in the U.S. without sponsorship preferred.