People & Culture Legal Counsel (Human Resources)

Lead a cross-functional group across Legal, Compliance, Risk, and HR with the possibility of becoming a permanent employee for our Fortune 500 Financial Services client!!

We are actively seeking HR/Employment Law Leaders with direct experience providing counsel and leadership on Fair Employment Regulatory and Compliance activities. This is an active, long-term full-time hybrid opportunity!

Introduction

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients, such as complex licensing agreements, intellectual property, employment counseling, compliance policy creation, and M&A transactions. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each lawyer’s practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

We are actively seeking HR/Employee Relations Leaders located in New York, NY, Dallas, TX, and Tampa, FL area with the following qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience overseeing legal professionals or Human Resources/Compliance teams.
• Substantive experience and exposure to Human Resources, including developing risk control strategies to maintain compliance with laws and regulations related to affirmative action requirements, non-discrimination, and equal employment opportunity in various jurisdictions.
• Willingness to support a hybrid role requiring three days onsite.
• Direct experience in workforce diversity – operating in a leadership capacity supporting the development and oversight of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
• A minimum of 15 years’ post-qualified employment law experience.
• Degree from an accredited institution.
• Active bar license in good standing in New York, Florida, or Texas (attorney only).
• 5+ years’ experience in a Program or Project Management capacity.
• Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs Regulatory Compliance, preferred.
• Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience in the financial services industry is a major plus.
• Strong knowledge of the financial services industry and norms.

Lead on the following responsibilities:

• Provide strategic thought-leadership regarding the interpretation, adoption, governance, management, and adherence to Fair Employment Practices programs.
• Uses excellent communication, leadership, and strong management skills to influence a wide range of internal audiences including respective product, function or regional executive management partners and external audiences including regulators and external auditors. Frequently engage in both internal and external negotiations, which will have a major impact on the function, and possibly on the organization.
• Contribute to the strategic direction of the Global HR Risk and Control Function, which may include reporting methodologies organizational design and effective positioning.
• Establish and sustain strong project management disciplines and routines with clear.
• Develop approaches to promote knowledge sharing and promulgate management best practices across HR Risk and Control and the Global HR Function.
• Drive the development of simplifying and automating solutions related to process re-engineering and metrics creation for the Fair Employment Practices Team, including forward looking projections.

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to professional development resources and learning and development programs.
• PTO and paid federal holidays
• Hybrid role – three days onsite/two days remote.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Optional medical coverage; HSA Account; Wellness Program
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefits (as applicable)
• Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement.

Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.

It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.