Sr. Corporate Counsel – Employment Law (Leave & Accommodations)

T-Mobile • Overland Park, KS

30d • Hybrid

About The Position

At T-Mobile, we invest in YOU! Our Total Rewards Package ensures that employees get the same big love we give our customers. All team members receive a competitive base salary and compensation package - this is Total Rewards. Employees enjoy multiple wealth-building opportunities through our annual stock grant, employee stock purchase plan, 401(k), and access to free, year-round money coaches. That’s how we’re UNSTOPPABLE for our employees! Are you looking for a work environment which encourages teamwork and where you are respected, supported, challenged, and can grow and advance your career? If your answer is “yes,” you should join T-Mobile’s All-Star Legal Team! This role is a Hybrid in-office position in either Bellevue, WA or Overland Park, KS. This attorney, working in the Legal Affairs Department, will represent T-Mobile and handle leave-and-accommodations advice and litigation (primarily in arbitration); advise business units and Human Resources on other employment legal matters, primarily within the Customer Care line of business; and prepare agency position statements and demand-letter responses. What you’ll do in your role. Leverage your subject-matter expertise to advise on multi-jurisdiction leave and accommodation compliance, balancing legal risk with efficient plan administration. Engage and work with outside counsel to manage employment litigation, with a focus on leave and accommodations issues in employment arbitrations. Identify and implement creative litigation strategies and thoughtfully manage litigation costs. Provide practical, day-to-day counseling to HR and other internal clients to identify and manage employment legal risks outside the leave-and-accommodations arena. Prepare responses to agency charges and demand letters. Develop and review written HR policies, guidelines, templates, and forms. Develop and deliver legal training to HR and other internal clients. Provide employment law advice regarding internal investigations. Advise and help clients understand employment law related compliance issues. Counsel and advise clients on a wide variety of complex and developing employment-related legal and business issues.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as an employment attorney, with relevant in-house and/or top law firm experience
• Minimum 4 years, strongly prefer 6+ years, of focused work on leave and accommodation issues across the country
• Ability to work independently and effectively despite ambiguity and rapid change.
• Excellent writing skills, with a focus on providing practical advice.
• Amazing oral communication skills, with a focus on clearly and simply conveying complex employment law concepts, risks, and options to HR and other internal clients.
• Strong judgement that allows you to properly weigh what’s best for our customers and our business, what’s best for our employees, and potential legal risks
• Strong project management skills
• A demonstrated ability to collaborate with other legal and business professionals in a complex organization with a focus on delivering results efficiently.
• A keen business sense with negotiation and drafting skills
• Ability to work efficiently, meet demanding deadlines, and balance multiple, and sometimes competing, priorities.
• Must be licensed, in good standing, to practice law in the US.
• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Leverage your subject-matter expertise to advise on multi-jurisdiction leave and accommodation compliance, balancing legal risk with efficient plan administration.
• Engage and work with outside counsel to manage employment litigation, with a focus on leave and accommodations issues in employment arbitrations.
• Identify and implement creative litigation strategies and thoughtfully manage litigation costs.
• Provide practical, day-to-day counseling to HR and other internal clients to identify and manage employment legal risks outside the leave-and-accommodations arena.
• Prepare responses to agency charges and demand letters.
• Develop and review written HR policies, guidelines, templates, and forms.
• Develop and deliver legal training to HR and other internal clients.
• Provide employment law advice regarding internal investigations.
• Advise and help clients understand employment law related compliance issues.
• Counsel and advise clients on a wide variety of complex and developing employment-related legal and business issues.

Benefits

• Employees enjoy multiple wealth-building opportunities through our annual stock grant, employee stock purchase plan, 401(k), and access to free, year-round money coaches.
• Employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role.
• Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee’s eligible earnings in the prior year.
• medical, dental and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance.
• eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed