Employment Counsel, US

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🔥 2 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

Where this job comes from

Posted on Blackletter's careers page, not through a job board

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Blackletter

2 - 10 employees

Founded 2013

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

Marketing • Consulting

Blackletter is a branding and design agency that builds elegant identities for thoughtful brands. They create cohesive identity systems, visual and verbal language, and interactive experiences aimed at communicating a brand’s philosophical and artistic underpinnings without being overtly expositional. Blackletter works with cultural and creative clients — museums, chefs, arts organizations and similar institutions — to affect culture and build community.

📋 Description

• Advise emerging companies on the full range of employment matters as they hire, scale, and restructure • Draft, review, and advise on employment agreements, offer letters, contractor and consulting arrangements, and separation agreements • Counsel founders on hiring, worker classification, wage and hour compliance, and employment terms accompanying equity grants • Draft and maintain workplace policies and employee handbooks across multiple states • Guide clients through terminations, reductions in force, severance, and releases • Advise on restrictive covenants, confidentiality, and IP assignment • Support workplace investigations, discrimination and harassment matters, and responses to agency charges • Identify recurring matter patterns and improve templates, clauses, and playbooks • Provide input on AI-powered legal workflows • Help define legal delivery standards, client communication, and matter management processes

🎯 Requirements

• 4–10 years at a leading law firm or in-house • Significant experience advising on US employment matters • Licensed to practice in a US jurisdiction • Strong commercial instincts • Ability to give clear, practical advice in time-sensitive and high-stakes situations • Openness to changing how routine legal work gets done

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary plus equity • Fully remote work within the United States • Inclusive work environment • Equal opportunities • Recruitment-process accommodations available

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