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ROLE SUMMARY:

Employment counsel is a junior member of the Legal Team, providing support to the Legal Department, Human Resources, and various other business partners. This role provides labor and employment advice to business partners, assists in managing a large portfolio of employment litigation and agency proceedings, reviews and assists in developing employment policies, supports labor relations, and generally provides supports the Company’s labor and employment law needs as needed. This is a junior role, an excellent opportunity to learn and grow. This role is on-site at Trulieve’s Tempe, AZ headquarters (relocation not available).

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide practical, executable, and accurate employment and labor law advice to HR and business partners on a daily basis.
• Assist in managing portfolio of 50+ employment cases (litigation and agency charges), including intake, investigate, assess, manage outside counsel as needed, make decisions regarding settlement, defense, etc.
• Assist in managing outside employment counsel defending Company in employment cases (identify need for outside counsel, work with outside counsel to investigate, develop and implement strategy with outside counsel, ensure outside counsel operates within budget).
• Aid in the development of litigation and settlement strategy for employment cases on an individual and portfolio-wide basis.
• Review/assess/develop Company policies and procedures that impact terms and conditions of employment to ensure compliance with state and federal law and Company objectives (when requested and proactively).
• Work with HR and business partners to develop and implement labor relations strategy, manage relationships with unions, negotiate union contracts,
• Assess trends and compliance issues to provide key business intelligence to HR and business partners.
• Report on litigation and key employment issues to internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist in developing legal budget.
• Other duties to support Company’s labor and employment law needs.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Juris Doctorate.
• Licensed to practice law in at least one state in the US.
• Highly organized.
• 1-4 years experience in employment law (in-house, in private practice, or in a government agency).
• Experience with state and federal employment law and regulations, including Title VII, FLSA, ADA, FMLA, ADEA/OWBPA, WARN, NLRA, EPA, etc. and state equivalents).
• Single plaintiff and class action employment litigation in state and federal courts.
• Agency proceedings (e.g. EEOC, DOL, NLRB).
• ADR (arbitration, mediation).
• Negotiating settlements and other case resolution.
• Case and settlement valuation.
• Legal budgeting.
• Comfortable and capable of working with variable degrees of supervision, solo and within a team, in a fast-paced environment with constantly shifting priorities.
• Skilled advocate to all levels of management and external audiences in written and spoken word; can adapt to various audiences.
• Understands and adapts to various competing business and legal needs.
• Sound judgment, understands when to make viable legal and business decisions in with limited information with short turnaround when appropriate versus more in-depth analysis, when to seek assistance from others.
• Skilled in electronic legal and other research.
• Skilled with Office Suite; legal practice management software, eDiscovery software; capable and willing to identify and learn new technology.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Sit or stand at desk and view computer monitor for several hours at a time each day.
• Type or otherwise input text in computer and manipulate mouse or similar adaptive device.
• Speak clearly on telephone, in remote meetings and in person so listeners can understand.
• Understand the speech of another person on telephone, in remote meetings and in person.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Position is on-site at Tempe HQ.

WORK SCHEDULE:

• Full time - variable (typically M-F, business hours beginning in Eastern Time Zone through Pacific Time Zone, occasional evenings or weekends when needed).

Salary will be commensurate with experience.   A comprehensive benefits package including paid time off is offered with this position. This position will work an average of 40 hours per week and will be available “after hours” if an emergency situation should arise.

Trulieve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.