Labor And Employment Attorney

Elevate; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

PTO / Paid time off

Job summary

Elevate is seeking an Employment Attorney to handle a high-volume portfolio of workplace investigations and employment litigation matters from intake through resolution. Ideal candidates have 5–8 years of employment law experience, strong investigations and writing skills, and comfort with discovery and motion practice.

The role is onsite in Arlington, VA, with opportunities to work within scaled legal-services workflows and cross-functional teams. JD and active U.S. license required.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5–8 years of employment law experience.
• Demonstrated workplace investigations experience, including witness interviews and drafting related work product.
• Experience with employment litigation, including discovery, motions, and depositions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct and support workplace investigations (harassment, discrimination, retaliation, policy violations, wage-and-hour concerns).
• Develop investigation plans, identify witnesses, interview, and draft summaries and findings.
• Support employment litigation matters: intake, discovery strategy, pleadings, and depositions.
• Assist with EEOC and state agency responses and fact development.
• Work within client-approved workflows, templates, and escalation protocols.
• Identify and raise legal, operational, and privilege issues to supervising attorneys or clients.
• Collaborate with legal operations, project management, data, document review, and technology teams.
• Draft concise, client-ready work product reflecting sound legal judgment.

Skills

5-8 years employment law

workplace investigations

employment litigation

strong writing skills

discovery and motion practice

experience with large employers

in-house experience preferred

Education

J.D. from an accredited law school

Active license in at least one U.S. jurisdiction

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.

This role is onsite in Arlington, VA.

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.

Company Information

Elevate is a law company. We provide software and services for the intersection of business and law. Our legal, business, and technology professionals offer practical ways for global law departments and law firms to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.

Our most recent achievements and distinctions include:

• Certified as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Development 2025 by Great Place to Work
• Certified as a Great Place to Work 2025 in the US, UK, India, and Philippines
• For the tenth consecutive year, in 2025, Chambers & Partners named Elevate as a Top global services provider, ranking us as Band 1 (highest ranking) in all applicable categories (Contract Lifecycle Management, Litigation Services, and Flexible Legal Staffing) and as an Alternative Legal Service Provider in Asia-Pacific
• Newsweek named Elevate one of 'America's Greatest Workplaces in Professional Services' for 2025 and previously awarded it the highest rating in the 'America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity' and 'America's Greatest Workplaces for 2024' lists
• For the fourth year in a row, Elevate's integrated law firm is designated as a top law firm in Commercial Litigation in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers/US News & World Report Best Law Firms
• Elevate named a top ALSP in Asia by Thomson Reuters' Asian Legal Business in 2024
• Winner, Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016
• Co-winner, 2022 Financial Times Collaborative Innovation Award for Industry Impact

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