Microsoft

Principal Corporate Counsel

Microsoft • $132K — $232K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor Degree or international equivalent plus 4+ years in U.S. employment/labor law.
  • Active legal license in relevant jurisdiction.
  • Experience with agency charges and investigations in the U.S.
  • Proven advisory experience on employment/labor law for corporate clients.
  • Background in litigating employment claims in courts and arbitrations.
  • Strong decision-making ability in fast-paced environments.
  • Experience in developing scalable legal service programs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategy and execution as counsel for agency investigations and disputes.
  • Manage and direct outside counsel effectively.
  • Offer innovative legal advice on employment disputes to all company levels.
  • Establish and maintain trusted professional relationships inside and outside the company.
  • Collaborate on developing cost-effective legal services solutions.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a leading technology organization.
  • Access to a collaborative and supportive legal team.
  • Professional development opportunities.
  • Engagement with innovative legal practices.
  • Influence on expanding scalable legal service delivery.
Full Job Description
Overview

Microsoft's Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization seeks an experienced, highly motivated attorney to join the employment legal team as Principal Corporate Counsel.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

  • Proactively driving strategy and execution as lead counsel responsible for responding to and resolving agency investigations and pre-litigation disputes, such as EEOC and similar state agency charges, agency compliance reviews, labor arbitrations, and private claims;


  • Engaging and directing outside counsel;


  • Providing innovative, practical legal advice regarding employment-related disputes to clients at all levels;


  • Building and maintaining professional, trusted, productive relationships throughout the company and with external parties; and


  • Partnering in the development and expansion of programmatic, cost-effective solutions for delivering legal services at scale.


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications
  • Juris Doctor Degree or international equivalent degree AND 4+ years experience practicing employment and/or labor law in the U.S
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Active license to practice law in a jurisdiction and capable of meeting admission requirements in relevant jurisdiction.

Additional or preferred qualifications:
  • Experience handling agency charges and investigations and pre-litigation disputes in the U.S.;
  • Experience advising corporate clients regarding employment and/or labor law topics in the U.S.;
  • Experience litigating employment claims in court, agency hearings, and/or arbitrations in the U.S.;
  • Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, manage competing priorities, and exercise good judgment in making swift decisions with imperfect information;
  • Experience contributing to the development of programs to deliver legal services at scale; and
  • Unyielding commitment to the highest professional ethics.


Legal Counsel IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $132,200 - $232,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,800 - $248,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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