Sr. Counsel, Labor and Employment
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the job posting. Key info: - Work Location: Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America - Hours 40 - Pay Details $160,000 - $264,000 USD - TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities... (some prose) - Growth opportunities and skill development... (prose) - The base pay actually offered may vary based upon candidate's skills... (prose) - As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions... (prose) - Line Of Business Legal - Job Description: Senior Counsel will be part of the U.S. Legal Labor and Employment team. Provide expert level labor and employment law oversight, legal advice and support to various business lines and stakeholders. Manage various employment litigation matters, oversee external counsel, manage budgets, and may prepare resolutions, contracts, memoranda to management, litigation documents and forms and participate in major legal actions. Partner with HR and other internal stakeholders to proactively identify and mitigate risks and promote best practices in employment law compliance. Provides oversight, legal advice and support to TD Bank management in Corporate Group Functions and Business Units. Functions as legal expert in one or more defined subject matter areas and/or specific business lines. Provides high level legal advice to specific business area(s), may prepare resolutions, contracts, memoranda to management, litigation documents and forms and participates in major legal actions. Foresees and protects the Company against legal risks. Depth & Scope: May manage paralegal and administrative staff, assigning responsibilities and evaluating results; Provides leadership, coaching, counseling and guidance to staff; Supervises external counsel providing advice or other legal services of the Company; Works closely with General Counsel, department attorneys and external legal counsel on specific legal issues related to the Company's business; Gives practical support and assistance to contemporaries, junior attorneys and staff; Volunteers expert advice and experience; Verifies the information has been understood; Serves in one or more permanent or ad hoc practice groups or cross-practice teams of attorneys and staff; Assists in the management of expenditures for external counsel; Advises lines of business on best practices that help minimize legal and litigation risk; May assist General Counsel in developing and managing departmental budget for both internal and external legal spend; Anticipates client needs; Deals with complex legal issues; Clearly delivers difficult messages without jeopardizing client relationships; Gives pragmatic legal opinions with reasons and rationale; Provides advice in ambiguous situations; identifies and prevents future legal risks; Identifies and takes action on future opportunities; Resolves most situations where conflicts arise between the needs and desires of specific business units and the interests of the Company without requiring intervention of more senior attorneys; Demonstrates highest professional ethical and behavioral standards and complies with all applicable Bar Rules and Codes of Professional Responsibility, and corporate ethical and behavioral standards; Participates in special projects and performs additional duties as required. - Education & Experience: Bachelors degree required; J.D. from an Accredited Law School required; 10+ Years of related experience; Strong knowledge of at least one area of law relating to banking/financial services operations and issues; Integrity and high moral standards; Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills; Strong legal and analysis skills; Detail oriented; Must be able to apply legal knowledge to the business; Ability to exercise sound judgment; Strong interpersonal skills; Excellent oral and written communication skills; Strong teamwork and client skills; Highly motivated; Ability to provide difficult, complex and unwelcomed legal advice credibly and convincingly to management; Strong technology aptitude including i) proficiency with standard office software and ability to learn and apply new technologies in work environment and ii) capacity to understand current and emerging technologies in the industry and how they affect business objectives; Ability to identify problems and barriers, and effectively implement solutions to advance business strategy; Operates with creativity and innovation; seeks different perspectives and new ideas; Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple deadlines and priorities; Understands the value of knowledge management, builds and supports systems and tools that efficiently connect people to the knowledge they need to do their job. - Preferred Qualifications: Experience within the financial industry or broker dealer environment preferred. - Please note this role is onsite, 4 days a week. - Physical Requirements: list of percentages. This is likely not needed as a section? Could be part of Requirements? But we can include maybe a "Physical Requirements" section? Not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings are: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Physical Requirements not listed, so we should not create a heading for it. Could fold into Requirements or Skills? Probably not needed; we can drop it as it's not required to preserve? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we need to keep the physical requirements info somewhere. Since we cannot create a heading not in list, we could embed it in a
under an appropriate existing section like "Requirements" or "Skills". Probably "Requirements" is appropriate. - Also there is "Who We Are", "Our Total Rewards Package", "Additional Information", "Colleague Development", "Training & Onboarding", "Interview Process", "Accommodation". These are boilerplate or generic; we should remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "Who We Are" and "Our Total Rewards Package" maybe considered boilerplate? It's generic about the company, not specific to role. Likely we should remove them. The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." The "Who We Are" and "Total Rewards" might be considered boilerplate but they are not exactly EEO. However they are generic corporate description; could be considered not substantive to the role. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. The "Who We Are" is not specific to the role; it's generic about TD. Might be considered boilerplate. I'd remove it. Similarly "Our Total Rewards Package" is generic benefits description; but we have Pay details already; benefits could be considered substantive? The posting includes a description of Total Rewards package: base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards, health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, reward and recognition. That is substantive about benefits. However we have a Benefits section allowed; we could include that. But the instruction says include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. The Total Rewards paragraph is specific enough? It lists categories but not specific details like health plans etc. It's somewhat generic but still describes benefits. I'd include a Benefits section with that content. - "Additional Information", "Colleague Development", "Training & Onboarding", "Interview Process", "Accommodation" are likely boilerplate/generic; we should remove. - Also there is a line: "The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. The listed or specified responsibilities & duties are considered essential functions for ADA purposes." This is generic legal disclaimer; could be removed as boilerplate. - Also "Physical Requirements" list is specific; we need to preserve. We'll embed under Requirements maybe. - Also "Please note this role is onsite, 4 days a week." That's schedule info; we can put under Schedule section. - Hours 40: also schedule. - Pay Details $160,000 - $264,000 USD: Pay section. - Also there is a line: "TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues." That's about pay/compensation; could be part of Pay section. - Also "Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD." That's about benefits? Could be part of Benefits or About the role? Might be about company culture; could be part of About the role. - Also "Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role." That's Pay. - Also "The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs." Pay. - Also "As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role." Pay. Thus we need sections: - About the role: maybe a brief summary: The Senior Counsel will be part of the U.S. Legal Labor and Employment team... Could be the Job Description paragraph. But we also have Responsibilities section for duties. Usually About the role is a short overview; Responsibilities is list of duties. We can split: About the role: a brief paragraph summarizing the role (maybe first sentence). Responsibilities: list of duties (the bullet-like sentences). Requirements: education/experience etc. Qualifications: maybe preferred qualifications? Skills: maybe skills list. Benefits: Total Rewards package. Pay: salary range and compensation philosophy. Schedule: hours 40, onsite 4 days a week. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must use
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include all details from the job description, education/experience, skills, etc.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the specifics, not just summarize.
Thus we need to convert paragraphs into lists where appropriate.
Let's extract:
Job Description / Responsibilities:
- Provide expert level labor and employment law oversight, legal advice and support to various business lines and stakeholders.
- Manage various employment litigation matters.
- Oversee external counsel.
- Manage budgets.
- May prepare resolutions, contracts, memoranda to management, litigation documents and forms.
- Participate in major legal actions.
- Partner with HR and other internal stakeholders to proactively identify and mitigate risks and promote best practices in employment law compliance.
- Provides oversight, legal advice and support to TD Bank management in Corporate Group Functions and Business Units.
- Functions as legal expert in one or more defined subject matter areas and/or specific business lines.
- Provides high level legal advice to specific business area(s), may prepare resolutions, contracts, memoranda to management, litigation documents and forms and participates in major legal actions.
- Foresees and protects the Company against legal risks.
- Depth & Scope: (these are more like responsibilities)
- May manage paralegal and administrative staff, assigning responsibilities and evaluating results.
- Provides leadership, coaching, counseling and guidance to staff.
- Supervises external counsel providing advice or other legal services of the Company.
- Works closely with General Counsel, department attorneys and external legal counsel on specific legal issues related to the Company's business.
- Gives practical support and assistance to contemporaries, junior attorneys and staff.
- Volunteers expert advice and experience.
- Verifies the information has been understood.
- Serves in one or more permanent or ad hoc practice groups or cross-practice teams of attorneys and staff.
- Assists in the management of expenditures for external counsel.
- Advises lines of business on best practices that help minimize legal and litigation risk.
- May assist General Counsel in developing and managing departmental budget for both internal and external legal spend.
- Anticipates client needs.
- Deals with complex legal issues.
- Clearly delivers difficult messages without jeopardizing client relationships.
- Gives pragmatic legal opinions with reasons and rationale.
- Provides advice in ambiguous situations; identifies and prevents future legal risks.
- Identifies and
for prose. We need to preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include all details from the job description, education/experience, skills, etc. We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the specifics, not just summarize. Thus we need to convert paragraphs into lists where appropriate. Let's extract: Job Description / Responsibilities: - Provide expert level labor and employment law oversight, legal advice and support to various business lines and stakeholders. - Manage various employment litigation matters. - Oversee external counsel. - Manage budgets. - May prepare resolutions, contracts, memoranda to management, litigation documents and forms. - Participate in major legal actions. - Partner with HR and other internal stakeholders to proactively identify and mitigate risks and promote best practices in employment law compliance. - Provides oversight, legal advice and support to TD Bank management in Corporate Group Functions and Business Units. - Functions as legal expert in one or more defined subject matter areas and/or specific business lines. - Provides high level legal advice to specific business area(s), may prepare resolutions, contracts, memoranda to management, litigation documents and forms and participates in major legal actions. - Foresees and protects the Company against legal risks. - Depth & Scope: (these are more like responsibilities) - May manage paralegal and administrative staff, assigning responsibilities and evaluating results. - Provides leadership, coaching, counseling and guidance to staff. - Supervises external counsel providing advice or other legal services of the Company. - Works closely with General Counsel, department attorneys and external legal counsel on specific legal issues related to the Company's business. - Gives practical support and assistance to contemporaries, junior attorneys and staff. - Volunteers expert advice and experience. - Verifies the information has been understood. - Serves in one or more permanent or ad hoc practice groups or cross-practice teams of attorneys and staff. - Assists in the management of expenditures for external counsel. - Advises lines of business on best practices that help minimize legal and litigation risk. - May assist General Counsel in developing and managing departmental budget for both internal and external legal spend. - Anticipates client needs. - Deals with complex legal issues. - Clearly delivers difficult messages without jeopardizing client relationships. - Gives pragmatic legal opinions with reasons and rationale. - Provides advice in ambiguous situations; identifies and prevents future legal risks. - Identifies and