Employment Attorney

About the role

This role is ideal for an attorney with approximately 5–8 years of employment law experience who is comfortable handling sensitive workplace investigations, working within structured customer workflows, and supporting a broad range of litigation tasks from matter intake through resolution. The successful candidate will bring strong workplace investigations experience, sound employment-law judgment, excellent writing skills, ample discovery and motion practice skills, and the ability to operate efficiently in a scaled legal-services environment. Experience in-house, with large employers, or on high-volume employment litigation or investigations portfolios is strongly preferred. This role is onsite in Arlington, VA.

Responsibilities

• Conduct and support workplace investigations involving allegations such as harassment, discrimination, retaliation, policy violations, employee misconduct, wage-and-hour concerns, and other employment-related issues.
• Develop investigation plans, identify relevant witnesses and documents, conduct witness interviews, evaluate facts, prepare chronologies, and draft clear investigation summaries, findings, and recommendations where appropriate.
• Support employment litigation matters, including case intake, fact development, litigation holds, document collection, discovery strategy, written discovery, pleadings, motions, witness preparation, depositions, settlement support, and matter closeout.
• Assist with administrative charges and agency matters, including EEOC and state-agency responses, position statements, information requests, and related fact development.
• Work within client-approved workflows, templates, playbooks, escalation protocols, and service-level expectations.
• Identify legal, reputational, operational, privilege, and escalation issues and raise them to supervising attorneys or client stakeholders as appropriate.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including legal operations, project management, data, document review, and technology teams, to support efficient matter handling at scale.
• Draft concise, practical, and client-ready work product that reflects strong legal judgment and attention to detail.

Experience

• Approximately 5–8 years of employment law experience, preferably representing or advising employers.
• Demonstrated workplace investigations experience is required, including experience interviewing witnesses, analyzing evidence, assessing credibility, and drafting investigation-related work product.
• Experience with employment litigation, including discovery, motion practice, witness preparation, depositions, settlement strategy, and case management.

Skills for Success

• Strong knowledge of federal and state employment laws, including anti-discrimination, anti-retaliation, leave, accommodation, wage-and-hour, and workplace conduct requirements.
• Excellent writing, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously, meet deadlines, and work effectively in a high-volume environment.
• Sound judgment, discretion, and sensitivity when handling confidential and legally sensitive workplace matters.

Technical Skills

• Excellent MS Office skills - capable of preparing PowerPoint, Word, and Excel files without support.

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Located in the DC Metro area and willing to work onsite in Arlington full time.

Compensation

US national salary range: $130,000-160,000, based on job-related skills, experience, and level. In addition, Elevate offers full-time employees a comprehensive benefits package and PTO.