Employee Benefits Midlevel Associate

Job Overview

A law firm seeks a highly qualified midlevel associate with 3-5 years of law firm experience to join its Employee Benefits practice in Pittsburgh, PA. The ideal candidate will have excellent academic credentials and expertise in advising on employee benefits and executive compensation issues in M&A transactions.

Duties

• Advise on employee benefits and executive compensation issues in M&A transactions.
• Design, draft, and operate executive employment, nonqualified deferred compensation, and equity compensation plans and agreements.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of law firm experience in employee benefits.
• Strong skills in advising on executive compensation issues.
• Bar membership is required.

Education

• Excellent academic credentials.

Certifications

• Bar membership.

Skills

• Expertise in M&A transactions related to employee benefits.
• Proficiency in designing and drafting compensation plans.

Benefits

• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.
• 401(k) eligibility.
• Various paid-time-off benefits, including vacation, sick time, and parental leave.

This large law firm opened with a labor and leveraged-leasing practice and quickly built a substantial corporate and litigation practice. Today, the firm focuses its practice on business and finance, investment management, litigation, labor and employmen, real estate and environmental issues. Attorneys at the firm enjoy a faily casual, though conservative, environment where partners tend to be collegial and offer excellent formal and informal training programs. In addition to recieving fair market salaries, associates at the firm have the opportunity to participate in award winning pro bono work.