What are the responsibilities and job description for the Employment Law Partner position at Ave Staffing?
Position: Employment Law Partner
Location: Raleigh, NC
Salary: Competitive / Commensurate with Experience & Portable Business
A premier, business-focused law firm in North Carolina is seeking an entrepreneurial Employment Law Partner to join its highly collaborative, low-bureaucracy team in Raleigh. This position offers true autonomy, a sophisticated multi-state platform, and a lucrative economic model designed to directly reward practice growth.
The ideal candidate will drive employer-side compliance, transactional diligence, and dispute resolution while expanding deep corporate client relationships.
Key Responsibilities
Location: Raleigh, NC
Salary: Competitive / Commensurate with Experience & Portable Business
A premier, business-focused law firm in North Carolina is seeking an entrepreneurial Employment Law Partner to join its highly collaborative, low-bureaucracy team in Raleigh. This position offers true autonomy, a sophisticated multi-state platform, and a lucrative economic model designed to directly reward practice growth.
The ideal candidate will drive employer-side compliance, transactional diligence, and dispute resolution while expanding deep corporate client relationships.
Key Responsibilities
- Executive Counseling: Advise corporate clients, HR leaders, and Boards of Directors on high-level risk mitigation, workforce governance, and organizational structure.
- Transactional & M&A: Conduct workforce-related due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, structuring executive compensation, incentive equity plans, and restrictive covenants.
- Regulatory Compliance: Guide multi-state and international enterprises through complex ADA, FMLA, Title VII, FLSA, OSHA, and PEO compliance strategies.
- Agreement Drafting: Author and negotiate complex employment agreements, separation packages, trade secret protections, and non-competition/non-solicitation covenants.
- Dispute Resolution: Oversee administrative proceedings and employment litigation before the EEOC, DOL, OSHA, state/federal courts, and FINRA arbitrations.
- Practice Expansion: Leverage a supportive cross-referral platform to expand client relationships across key sectors like technology, healthcare, life sciences, and financial services.
- Experience: 15 years of dedicated management-side labor and employment law experience within a law firm or senior in-house corporate legal department.
- Portable Practice: A reasonable, portable book of business or a demonstrable track record of sustainable client development.
- Jurisdiction: Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school; active license in good standing with the North Carolina State Bar (or immediate eligibility to waive in).
- Core Competencies: Comprehensive mastery of multi-state employment counseling, transactional risk management, and administrative defense.