Labor & Employment Partner Attorney – Entrepreneur

Min 5 yrs required

Full-time

No

Labor and Employment Partner Attorney – Entrepreneur

The candidate will be providing clients with the best, most comprehensive, seamless representation available. Taking and defending depositions on complicated labor and employment matters. Providing a business-focused, creative, and client-centric problem-solving mindset with the ability to balance legal risk and business impact. Thinking collaboratively to create common-sense solutions to complex employment problems. Conceptualizing and articulating pragmatic/ creative counseling and advice to clients. Developing business with proven ability to generate/originate new matters. Developing/maximizing potential referral sources through networking events, lunches, and social gatherings. Creating an overall business development/marketing strategy designed to grow and expand one’s practice and client base. Reviewing, analyzing, negotiating, and drafting employment contracts, termination agreements, settlement agreements, employment releases, labor contracts, and other labor and employment contracts and related documentation. Analyzing, addressing, and providing legal advice to a cross-functional team of lawyers in all practice areas.

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Qualification and Experience The candidate must have a Juris Doctorate Degree from an accredited law school and a license to practice law in the state of Massachusetts. (Member of the Massachusetts Bar). Multiple State Bar admissions are a plus. Must have a book of portables in the “healthy growth” stages and have a strong desire to grow that book over time. Must also have extensive experience with complex labor and employment law matters and must be willing to work collaboratively/cross-market with members in other practice area groups. Must have experience in litigating employment cases, including wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and wage and hour matters. Trial experience is a plus. Should have strong employment litigation and counseling experience. First-chair experience handling employment trials is a plus. Must have a wide range of labor and employment law experience, business acumen, dispute resolution, and leadership skills. Significant experience representing employers, large and small, in employment disputes is required. Should have a mature, experienced team approach to the practice of law. Strong people skills suitable for a client-focused business are required. Should have strong academic and professional credentials. The ability to prioritize and to work independently is needed. Must have demonstrated the ability to work well in a team environment and bring added value. Sound legal judgment, initiative, and versatility are needed. Maintaining a positive attitude, good listening skills, ambition, self-confidence, and good organizational, communication, and writing skills.

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