What are the responsibilities and job description for the Corporate Counsel position at Elwood Staffing?
When you join the Elwood family, you become part of team that fosters a culture of integrity, winning and achieving results, providing superior customer service, and helping others. We help people find jobs and help employers find the people they need to be successful. You can leave the office each day knowing that you made a difference in your community. Our success comes from the success of our associates and customers. Come experience the Elwood way and make a difference with us!
Elwood Staffing is also a performance and results-driven culture for the hard-working, passionate, and highly motivated. You can expect a career that provides a constant variety of challenges along with progressive training and professional development to meet those challenges. Come work for a growing company that serves more than 6,000 businesses and puts more than 28,000 people to work daily.
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General Purpose:
To oversee internal legal matters and provide legal advice to the organization's Executive Team, General Counsel, Human Resources, Safety & Risk Departments, and field service operations.
Essential Functions:
- Advise internal employees regarding legal responsibilities and risks associated with business situations including such issues as state leave laws, drug testing, background checks, privacy, wage laws, and discrimination, retaliation, and harassment claims.
- Stay up to date on legal developments impacting a national company operating across nearly all states.
- Maintain knowledge of the company's legal documents and operations.
- Investigate and respond to agency charges, investigations, and audits (EEOC, OSHA, DOL, NLRB, DHS).
- Implement and manage litigation holds and work with outside counsel on litigation matters.
- Attend agency and litigation proceedings, depositions, mediations, and conferences as a company representative as necessary.
- Partner with learning & development, HR, safety, risk, and operations departments to develop and implement appropriate training, policies, and procedures.
- Manage collections, restrictive covenant, and I-9 compliance issues.
- Review and negotiate real estate lease agreements.
- Review and negotiate client service agreements, vendor agreements, and NDAs.
- Review and respond to subpoenas.
- Register and renew trademarks.
- Ensure proper handling and confidentiality of sensitive information.
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Qualified candidates will have a Juris Doctorate degree and 2 years of experience practicing law in a corporate environment or law firm setting.
- Prior experience with employment issues, ideally multi-state.
- Ability to work cross-functionally to proactively communicate and resolve issues with the highest sense of urgency and discretion.
- Excellent computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Detail-oriented with the ability to prioritize responsibilities and work independently.
What Elwood Staffing can offer you:
- Health, Dental and Vision plan
- Prescription drug plan
- Life and Supplemental Life Insurance
- Short and Long - Term Disability
- 401K Plan with company contribution
- Telemedicine - Teledoc
- Employee Assistance Program
- Access to Benefit Advocates
- Discount tickets, travel, and shopping-Working Advantage
- Dell computer discount
- Enterprise Rental Car discount
- Chairman's Club
- Anniversary awards program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Certified Staffing Professional training and certification
- $500 Recruitment Incentive for Internal Careers
- Bereavement Leave
- Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays
- Progressive training and development
- Opportunities for advancement throughout our company
Join our growing team today and discover why Elwood is one of the best to work for in the staffing industry!
Find out more about us at www.elwoodstaffing.com.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
