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New York City office of our client seeks employment litigation associate attorney with 4+ years of experience. The ideal candidate must have primarily management-side employment law experience, including substantial work on litigation matters (ideally including litigation relating to employee mobility), advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions, and providing counseling advice to clients regarding day-to-day employment issues. Legal

Excellent writing and advocacy skills and the ability to build lasting relationships with internal and external clients required.

This large law firm's practice covers a broad spectrum of corporate, litigation and intellectual property services. Attorneys regularly represent private companies, ranging from domestic start-ups to multi-national Fortune 100 companies that are involved in the high technology, life sciences and consumer products industries. They also represent investment banks, venture capital funds and other financial institutions. This newly established New York office, however, primarily serves the rapidly growing base of high technology and venture capital communities in the North Atlantic region. This is a fast-growing firm with a hardworking environment, but attorneys are rewarded with competitive salaries and benefits.

New York City office of our client seeks employment and labor associate attorney with 6+ years of experience. The candidate should have substantial, independent experience in counseling clients regarding, and litigating in connection with, employment matters, including wage and hour and employee compensation matters, discrimination and harassment matters, employee mobility issues, government audits and investigations, and lawful hiring, disciplinary and termination practices. Must also have experience in advising clients on compliance matters and drafting employment-related agreements and policies. Traditional labor experience, including handling grievance arbitrations and participating in collective bargaining, matters before the NLRB, and union organizing campaigns, is preferred. First chair litigation and/or arbitration experience is essential. New York Bar membership in good standing is essential. Legal

Must have strong client-facing, interpersonal skills and equally strong writing skills. Outstanding academic credentials; Strong writing, research and analytical skills; Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills; Effective and efficient problem solvers with the ability to work independently and proactively with confidence to develop creative solutions to meet client and team needs is needed.

This is one of the nation's premier law and consulting firms. It serves a range of industries including consumer goods and services, energy and natural resources, entertainment, media and advertising, financial services, healthcare, real estate, technology and transportation. Its service areas include advertising; antitrust; banking; bankruptcy and financial restructuring; corporate finance and securities; environmental; government and regulatory; healthcare; insurance; intellectual property, including patent, trademark and copyright; internet and e-commerce; labor and employment; litigation and trial; mergers and acquisitions; motion picture and television; music; real estate and land use; tax, benefits and compensation; and venture capital.

New York City office of our client seeks labor and employment litigation associate attorney with 4-7 years of experience. The candidate should have extensive familiarity with federal and state employment statutes and extensive employment litigation experience including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour collective and class actions and employment contract cases. Must have experience including developing strategy, drafting pleadings, taking/defending depositions, arguing motions and the capability of working independently. Experience providing advice and counsel on workplace law issues, including employee relations, mitigation of risk, ADA and other workplace accommodation, employment agreements, reductions-in-force, and employment-related policies is also beneficial. Admission to practice law in New York is mandatory. Legal

Must possess strong academic credentials and have excellent oral and written communication skills.

This firm is one of the best for immigration and labor issues. With some of the best and most knowledgeable support staff, this New York firm handles a fairly high volume of matters expeditiously. Associates do complain that the work gets fairly cookie-cutter in the business-like office environment, which is not helped by this firm's compensation, notoriously below market. Nonetheless, the reasonable hours requirements and a down to earth pool of partners attract and often keep qualified associates.