Senior Attorney - Labor & Employment & Litigation
Are you a confident and collaborative legal expert ready to advise at the highest levels of leadership? We're looking for a Senior Attorney to take on a hybrid Labor & Employment and General Litigation role, with approximately 70% focus on L&E and 25-30% litigation support. This is a high-impact opportunity for a legal professional who enjoys solving complex legal matters, driving strategy, and partnering directly with senior management.
What Your Day Would Look Like:
- Provide strategic counsel on a wide range of Labor & Employment matters including internal investigations, employee relations, policy interpretation, DEI, wage & hour, discipline, performance management, and compliance.
- Represent or manage outside counsel in administrative hearings, arbitrations, and litigation helping shape responses that balance business needs with legal risk.
- Collaborate closely with HR, compliance, and senior business leaders to proactively address risk and support company-wide initiatives.
- Contribute to broader litigation strategy, manage casework, and assist in developing defense strategies for complex corporate matters.
- Draft, review, and interpret contracts, policies, and internal guidance materials to ensure legal soundness and operational alignment.
- Balance reactive legal support with proactive risk mitigation and education efforts across the organization.
This role offers the opportunity to shape policy, protect company interests, and serve as a trusted advisor in a collaborative, fast-paced, and evolving legal environment.
Minimum Requirements
Senior Attorney - Labor & Employment & Litigation
- Degree from an accredited law school; Licensed state bar member in good standing
may be required to become a member of the State Bar of Arizona; - AND five (5) plus years of experience with significant exposure to corporate clients and the types of legal issues regularly faced by large public companies.
Major Accountabilities
1) Independently perform a variety of legal services, which involve a high level of complex and difficult legal and/or factual issues in connection with every phase of the Company's operations.
2) Counsel officers and senior management in the development of strategy regarding negotiations, disputes, claims, litigation/administrative proceedings, etc., by recommending specific courses of action based on extensive research, investigation, analysis, and experience.
3) Provide preliminary instruction, monitor performance of assignments, review soundness of approach/arguments and application of legal principles of outside counsel retained by the company.
4) Direct and coordinate the workflow of project teams, while maintaining positive working relationships with internal and external customers
APS
400 North 5th Street
Phoenix
Arizona États-Unis
www.aps.com
