This role will provide strategic and practical legal counsel to the Company’s Human Resources professionals and business executives regarding employment and benefit laws and support the overall employment legal group, as well as negotiate and draft employment agreements. This will be a key role as we build a legal employment group for a newly formed media company; Versant. Job Duties Advise and counsel senior management, Human Resources and Versant business lawyers in varied business units with respect to all employment law issues, including: business restructuring, employment policy development and application, worker classification, workforce management, discrimination and harassment claims, family and medical leave laws, restrictive covenants, wage-and-hour and workplace safety, and pay equity Oversee, conduct and provide counsel on internal investigations of employment-related and other types of complaints, ensuring that claims are addressed promptly, thoroughly and appropriately Provide legal support in connection with the design, implementation, and administration of employee health, welfare and benefit plans Represent Versant, in collaboration with other Versant and outside counsel as appropriate, with respect to mediation and litigation of employment claims, as well as the employment-related aspects of business acquisitions and dispositions Draft mediation briefs, settlement and separation agreements, as well as federal, state and local agency position statements and responses Draft and negotiate executive and talent employment contracts Create and deliver training on timely employment law topics to management, Human Resources and business lawyers Lead, manage and support enterprise-wide employment law project teams Manage investigations, legal claims, performance management and other employment law cases in web-based case management system Stay current on developments in employment and employee benefits law, including legislative and regulatory changes.