*** This position can sit in Bellevue, WA or Overland Park, KS***

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Are you looking for a work environment which encourages teamwork and where you are respected, supported, challenged, and can grow and advance your career? If your answer is “yes,” you should join T-Mobile’s All-Star Legal Team!

This role is a Hybrid in-office position in Bellevue, WA, or Overland Park, KS.

This attorney, working in the Legal Affairs Department, will represent T-Mobile and provide counsel to business units and Human Resources on employment and labor-related legal matters, with a focus on the Retail line of business; prepare and review legal documents including pleadings, briefs, position statements and other filings in pre-litigation and litigation, with a focus on employment arbitrations); and assist with other matters as needed.

What you’ll do in your role.

• Provide practical, day-to-day, employment-law counseling to HR and other internal clients to identify and manage employment legal risks.
• Engage and work with outside counsel to manage employment litigation (primarily employment-law arbitrations) and administrative proceedings with a focus on creative strategies, cost reduction, and efficient resolutions.
• Prepare responses to agency charges and demand letters.
• Develop and review written HR policies, guidelines, templates, and forms.
• Develop and deliver legal training to HR and other internal clients.
• Provide employment law advice regarding internal investigations.
• Advise and help clients understand employment-law compliance issues.
• Counsel and advise clients on a wide variety of complex and developing employment-related legal and business issues.

The experience you’ll bring.

• 2- 4+ years of experience as an employment attorney, with relevant in-house and/or top law firm experience
• Minimum 4 years, prefer 6+ years, of experience handling litigation involving discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and other employment-related claims, with a focus on employment arbitrations.
• Prefer some exposure to one or more of the following areas: international employment law, labor relations, or ERISA.
• Ability to work independently and effectively despite ambiguity and rapid change.
• Excellent writing skills, with a focus on providing practical advice.
• Amazing oral communication skills, with a focus on clearly and simply conveying complex employment law concepts, risks, and options to HR and other internal clients.
• Strong judgement that allows you to properly weigh what’s best for our customers and our business, what’s best for our employees, and potential legal risks
• Strong project management skills
• A demonstrated ability to collaborate with other legal and business professionals in a complex organization with a focus on delivering results efficiently.
• A keen business sense with negotiation and drafting skills
• Ability to work efficiently, meet demanding deadlines, and balance multiple, and sometimes competing, priorities.
• Must be licensed, in good standing, to practice law in the US.

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