Senior Legal Counsel, Employment

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🕒 July 28

🏄 California, Illinois – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $175k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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The Community Solution Education System

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🏥 Healthcare

Education • Non-profit • Healthcare

The Community Solution Education System is a nonprofit network of six colleges and universities dedicated to enhancing educational access and success for underserved communities. Through a collaborative approach known as the 'One System' model, they focus on fostering academic achievement and providing diverse educational opportunities. The system trains future professionals in critical fields such as healthcare, law, and education, positively impacting both students and their communities.

📋 Description

• Provide practical legal counsel and risk assessment on day-to-day operational, administrative, and strategic matters supporting higher education system and institutional operations • Serve as lead counsel on employment-related disputes, including pre-litigation and litigation matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, workers’ compensation, and reasonable accommodation claims • Conduct and advise on complex workplace and student-related investigations and recommend legally sound, practical resolutions • Negotiate settlements, manage insurance claims, and partner with outside counsel as appropriate to support effective case resolution • Advise on compliance with federal and state employment laws and regulations, including FLSA, ADA, FMLA, California employment laws, and matters involving state and federal regulatory agencies • Support labor relations matters, including collective bargaining and related workforce considerations • Partner with Human Resources, institutional leaders, and other stakeholders • Help shape policies and practices and support organizational decision-making

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of experience practicing employment law as a litigator or within a higher education environment • Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an ABA-accredited law school • Active license to practice law in California • Must be licensed to practice law in Illinois or eligible to become licensed upon starting work • Experience providing legal counsel and risk assessment on employment, labor, and workplace matters • Experience advising organizational leaders on complex employment issues, including workplace investigations, regulatory compliance, and dispute resolution • Strong knowledge of federal and state employment laws, including FLSA, ADA, FMLA, and California employment laws • Flexibility in working across time zones • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and short deadlines • May occasionally need to work outside standard business hours to meet business needs

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage • Voluntary benefit options • Employer-paid life and disability insurance • Retirement plan contributions • Employee assistance program • 20 PTO days annually • 11 paid holidays annually • Remote work flexibility • Biweekly remote work stipend • Tuition reimbursement for eligible external degree programs • Tuition waivers at participating colleges within the System • Opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven higher education system

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