Employment Counsel – Contractor

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100 - $150 / hour

⏱ Part Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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11 - 50 employees

⚖️ Legal

🤝 B2B

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Legal • B2B • Artificial Intelligence

Arceus is an on-demand law firm that combines licensed attorneys, AI agents, and company context to deliver fast, fixed-price commercial legal work and general counsel services. It focuses on rapid contract review, drafting, negotiation, and ongoing legal memory (CounselOS) integrated into workflows like Slack and email, with guarantees such as an 8-hour turnaround and flat-fee pricing instead of billable hours. Arceus targets fast-moving tech and enterprise customers (including AI and B2B SaaS companies), offering legal infrastructure for sales, finance & operations, and founders, and emphasizes predictable pricing, availability, and sped-up enterprise contracting.

📋 Description

• Serve as fractional employment counsel to fast-growing tech companies • Handle everyday employment questions across the employee lifecycle, from first hire to first reduction in force • Advise on offer letters, employment agreements, contractor agreements, confidentiality and invention assignment agreements, and background-check compliance • Advise on employee-versus-contractor classification, exempt-versus-non-exempt status, overtime, and pay transparency rules • Handle multi-state and remote workforce matters, including state registration, state-specific policies, and coordination with PEOs and employers of record for international hires • Draft and update employee handbooks, remote-work, leave, and AI-use policies • Advise on FMLA and state leave laws, disability and pregnancy accommodations, and return-to-work questions • Advise on performance plans, terminations, separation and release agreements, RIFs, and WARN analysis • Triage complaints, scope and support internal investigations, and advise on harassment, discrimination, and retaliation risk • Advise on restrictive covenants, non-solicits, state non-compete limits, and coordinate with corporate counsel on equity grants • Turn recurring questions into templates, playbooks, quality bars, and AI-assisted workflows • Work with product and engineering to improve legal tools

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing (California, New York, or another state with a large tech workforce preferred) • 5+ years of employment law practice, advising employers rather than litigating only • Experience as in-house employment counsel, or advising many startups and growth-stage companies from a firm • Broad, hands-on counseling across the full employee lifecycle; multi-state experience required • Working knowledge of California employment law is a strong plus • A customer-first mindset: responsive, low-ego, and focused on practical outcomes • Comfort turning work around quickly and handling several matters at once • Experience with, or real excitement about, AI-assisted legal workflows • Strong grounding in professional responsibility and legal ethics • Excellent written and verbal communication, especially with non-lawyers • Availability for at least 10 hours per week • Active license to practice law in good standing

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to expand hours as the employment practice grows • At least 10 hours per week of availability for client matters • Part-time independent contractor engagement

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