Employment Attorney

Elevate

Arlington (VA)

On-site

USD 130,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid time off

Job summary

Elevate is seeking an Employment Attorney in the DC metro area (Arlington, onsite) with 5–8 years of employment law experience. You will manage a high-volume portfolio of investigations and litigation, conduct witness interviews, and draft clear reports.

Responsibilities include intake, discovery strategy, pleadings, depositions, and settlement support, with EEOC and agency matters also involved. You will work within client workflows and cross-functional teams, delivering concise, client-ready

Qualifications

Approximately 5–8 years of employment law experience, preferably representing employers.
Demonstrated workplace investigations experience, including witness interviews and evidence analysis.
Experience with employment litigation, including discovery, motions, and case management.
Licensed to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction; JD required.

Responsibilities

Conduct and support workplace investigations, including harassment, discrimination, and policy violations.
Develop investigation plans, interview witnesses, collect documents, draft findings and recommendations.
Support employment litigation matters: intake, discovery strategy, pleadings, depositions, and settlement support.
Assist with EEOC/state agency matters and related fact development.
Work within client-approved workflows, playbooks, and escalation protocols.
Identify and raise legal, reputational, operational, privilege, and escalation issues.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to handle matters at scale.
Draft client-ready work products with strong legal judgment.

Skills

Employment law experience (5–8 years)

Workplace investigations experience

Strong writing skills

Discovery & motion practice

Education

J.D. from an accredited law school

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Elevate is recruiting an Employment Attorney to support a high-volume, fast-moving portfolio of workplace investigations and employment litigation matters. This role is ideal for an attorney with approximately 5–8 years of employment law experience who is comfortable handling sensitive workplace investigations, working within structured customer workflows, and supporting a broad range of litigation tasks from matter intake through resolution. The successful candidate will bring strong workplace investigations experience, sound employment-law judgment, excellent writing skills, ample discovery and motion practice skills, and the ability to operate efficiently in a scaled legal-services environment. Experience in-house, with large employers, or on high-volume employment litigation or investigations portfolios is strongly preferred.

Specifically, the Employment Attorney will

Conduct and support workplace investigations involving allegations such as harassment, discrimination, retaliation, policy violations, employee misconduct, wage-and-hour concerns, and other employment-related issues.
Develop investigation plans, identify relevant witnesses and documents, conduct witness interviews, evaluate facts, prepare chronologies, and draft clear investigation summaries, findings, and recommendations where appropriate.
Support employment litigation matters, including case intake, fact development, litigation holds, document collection, discovery strategy, written discovery, pleadings, motions, witness preparation, depositions, settlement support, and matter closeout.
Assist with administrative charges and agency matters, including EEOC and state-agency responses, position statements, information requests, and related fact development.
Work within client-approved workflows, templates, playbooks, escalation protocols, and service-level expectations.
Identify legal, reputational, operational, privilege, and escalation issues and raise them to supervising attorneys or client stakeholders as appropriate.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including legal operations, project management, data, document review, and technology teams, to support efficient matter handling at scale.
Draft concise, practical, and client-ready work product that reflects strong legal judgment and attention to detail.

Experience

Approximately 5–8 years of employment law experience, preferably representing or advising employers.
Demonstrated workplace investigations experience is required, including experience interviewing witnesses, analyzing evidence, assessing credibility, and drafting investigation-related work product.
Experience with employment litigation, including discovery, motion practice, witness preparation, depositions, settlement strategy, and case management.

Skills for Success

Strong knowledge of federal and state employment laws, including anti-discrimination, anti-retaliation, leave, accommodation, wage-and-hour, and workplace conduct requirements.
Excellent writing, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously, meet deadlines, and work effectively in a high-volume environment.
Sound judgment, discretion, and sensitivity when handling confidential and legally sensitive workplace matters.

Technical Skills

Excellent MS Office skills - capable of preparing PowerPoint, Word, and Excel files without support.

Qualifications

J.D. from an accredited law school and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
Located in the DC Metro area and willing to work onsite in Arlington full time.

Compensation

US national salary range: $130,000-160,000, based on job-related skills, experience, and level. In addition, Elevate offers full-time employees a comprehensive benefits package and PTO.