Employment Law - General Attorney in Los Angeles, CA

Law Firm

Los Angeles, CA

Employment Law - General Attorney in Los Angeles, CA

Attorney

Min 10 yrs required

No

Job Title: Chair of Labor & Employment Law Practice

Experience:
- Years of experience litigating wage and hour and FEHA-based cases
- Knowledge of current California wage and hour law

Salary Information:
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Better-than-average retirement plan

Job Description:
- Lead a team of dynamic professionals as the firm's Labor & Employment Practice Group Leader
- Grow book of business and elevate reputation with full support of colleagues and firm resources
- Manage and resolve PAGA and wage and hour class actions, EDD matters, and FEHA cases
- Train, mentor, and motivate younger professionals to become future labor & employment thought-leaders
- Successfully manage client relationships and litigation matters
- Bill sufficient hours to meet minimum billable hour requirement
- Commitment to diversity and inclusion as one of firm's founding principles

Requirements:
- Productive leader who puts others before themselves
- Ability to work well with others and foster teamwork and collaboration
- Excellent knowledge of current California wage and hour law
- Respectful and pleasant demeanor
- Commitment to ethics and civility
- Ability to be nimble and adapt to change quickly

Benefits:
- Established client base with advice and counsel and litigation needs
- Support for litigation matters and a friendly, diverse environment
- Associate and counsel attorneys and paralegals to assist with litigation
- Factual and legal investigations
- Ability to create HR compliance plans
- Firm marketing support
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Better-than-average retirement plan

What Sets Us Apart:
- Progressive, congenial, and supportive firm culture
- Balance between work and life without sacrificing quality of service
- Recognition by peers and legal and business communities
- Commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Small nimble management committee for quick implementation of change
- Focus on ethics and civility

What You Won't Find:
- Pressure for origination or attribution
- Silos that discourage teamwork and collaboration
- Incivility and unethical behavior
- Thankless, grueling hours
- Politics and in-fighting
- Egos and toxic masculinity

Additional Information:
- Firm clients often pay employees on commission or piece rate structures
- Knowledge of pay plans and structures and wage and hour issues involving commission and piece rate employees is helpful
- Flexible work arrangements with COVID protocols in place
- Competitive compensation and benefits package, including better-than-average retirement plan
- Equal Opportunity Employer