Related tasks:

• Provide timely, practical and business-oriented legal advice on a range of employment issues, including: hiring, performance management, employee relations, personnel policies, leaves of absence and accommodations, discrimination and harassment, wage and hour, internal investigations, discipline and termination, compensation, and benefits.
• Investigate and respond to claims, demand letters, administrative complaints, audits, and other employment-related inquiries.
• Manage employment related litigation, including responding to attorney demand letters, effectively negotiating resolution of claims, and making recommendations to Human Resources and senior management on corrective action.
• Critically supervise and manage outside counsel to ensure high-quality, cost-effective service through developing and monitoring budgets and oversight of outside counsel on employment litigation matters.
• Conduct/oversee internal audits to support compliance, such as classification reviews and management of leaves of absence.

• Demonstrated strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills; strong legal research and writing skills; strong analytical and writing ability.
• Ability to digest state and federal requirements and limitations/opportunities and findings into cohesive and succinct documents.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all constituencies.
• Must have tenacity and ability to handle significant caseload touching many different areas of law with assigned appearances in proceedings.
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• Able to use MS office products as well as other office equipment and software products.