Associate General Counsel - Labor & Employment

aah; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocate Health's Legal Department is seeking a Labor & Employment attorney to provide legal advice and representation for our nonprofit healthcare system. Remote role with responsibilities including advising on employment laws, managing outside counsel, and supporting senior executives.

Requirements include a JD, active license, 2+ years of relevant experience, and strong communication skills. You will handle a wide range of employment matters, including EEOC issues and litigation support.

Qualifications

• JD required and license to practice law.
• Minimum 2 years of experience providing legal services in-house or at a law firm.
• Experience counseling multi-state employers and advising on complex employment matters.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong analytical ability.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice to enterprise entities and senior executives.
• Manage outside counsel relationships and delegate work as needed.
• Conduct legal research and prepare/depose witnesses with outside counsel.
• Negotiate contracts, employment agreements, and related documents.

Education

Juris Doctor (JD) from accredited law school

Job description

Department:

10114 Enterprise Corporate - Legal Department

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hou rs Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

First shift -- M-F

Pay Range:

$86.75 - $138.80

Advocate Health's Legal Department is seeking a Labor & Employment (L&E) attorney to provide legal advice and representation to our non-profit healthcare system. Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and meet deadlines, comfort interacting with senior executives, and intimate familiarity with state and federal employment laws. This position is remote.

Major Responsibilities:

• Provide legal support to enterprise entities.
• Work collaboratively with attorneys, business partners, other teammates, outside counsel, and outside vendors, performing a wide variety of duties.
• Communicate effectively with Legal Department teammates, business partners, courts, and government agencies.
• Manage and delegate projects to outside counsel, with an ability to identify and articulate to outside counsel what needs to be done on matters such as EEOC charges, lawsuits, government agency investigations, and general employment matters and questions.
• Manage legal matters, including complex litigation, transactions, litigation holds, investigations, due diligence, discovery, and other responsibilities and assignments as required in the Legal Department.
• Conduct legal research.
• In partnership with outside counsel, conduct witness interviews, prepares witnesses for depositions, government agency interviews, and trial.
• Attend and/or provide support in mediations and depositions.
• In partnership with outside counsel and/or more senior in-house attorneys, negotiate various types of legal documents such as contracts, employment agreements, settlement agreements, severance agreements, discovery responses, pleadings, position statements, response to requests for information, response to agency complaints, correspondence, memoranda, policies and other legal documents
• Participate in knowledge sharing, training, mentoring, and development for self and other members of the Legal Department.

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

• Attorney must be licensed and registered as required by applicable law.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience counseling multi-state employers
• Ability to advise on complex employment matters and effectively interact with senior executives
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with analytical and critical thinking abilities; proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines

Education Required:

• Doctorate Degree in Law from an accredited law school.

Experience Required:

• Typically requires a minimum of 2 years of experience providing legal services within a law firm or as in-house legal counsel.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Ability to support Legal Department leadership and business clients on business and legal strategy, while assessing, communicating, managing, and mitigating legal risk to the enterprise.
• Demonstrated familiarity with federal and applicable state employment laws and related agencies highly recommended
• Ability to develop, approve, and interpret policies within various sub‑functions and departments.
• Ability to effectively leverage the use of outside counsel while controlling outside counsel costs.
• Ability to work effectively with governmental and other regulatory agencies to protect the best interests of the enterprise.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effective with all levels of employees, which is necessary to collaborate with staff, management, executives and other organizations.
• Excellent leadership and motivational skills.
• Adaptable to change, supports transformation, and helps drive strategic objectives.
• Self-directed with strong time management and organizational skills.
• Manages time-sensitive/deadline-driven projects.
• Flexible and committed to the team concept.
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn.
• Readily contribute to diversity goals and initiatives.
• Driven by organizational mission, vision, and core values.

Protected Health Information

Will limit access to protected health information (PHI) to the information reasonably necessary to do the job.

Will share information only on a need‑to‑know basis for work purposes.

Access to verbal, written, and electronic PHI for this job has been determined by the level and job responsibility within the organization. Computerized access to PHI for this job has been determined as described above and is controlled via user ID and password.

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and superior organizational and analytical skills.
• Comfortable with working independently with minimalist supervision, applying analytical and critical thinking skills, and being open to change. Able to work in a team enviro