Legal Specialist, Employment Litigation

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 1 year of litigation or investigations support experience as a Paralegal/Legal Specialist at a law firm, government agency or in-house legal department.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in or exposure to employment legal issues in a law firm, government, or in-house setting.
• Ability to review and organize numerous documents in complex legal matters
• Excellent organizational skills, time management, and attention to detail with the ability to prioritize multiple projects that are time sensitive.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  

As a Legal Specialist, you’ll join a close-knit team to project manage Google’s response to legal claims in a variety of employment matters and venues. You will utilize excellent organizational, critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills as well as the ability to manage employment legal projects with varying degrees of oversight. You will also have a very strong interest in all things to do with employment law and employee relations. You will be involved in all aspects of the team’s work from the routine to the complex.

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $66,500-$99,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

• Work alongside in-house Employment Counsel, external legal counsel, and collaborate with teams across the Company including legal, HR, product, business, and others. 
• Conduct fact-finding investigations, gather information, and identify documents/data to preserve and/or collect in response to discovery, government agency requests, or internal investigations.
• Support or drive case management including managing specific workflows, task lists, status updates, timing, and overall case organization.
• Identify issues and recommend solutions that consider burden, risk, and other key factors that help teams operate more efficiently.
• Manage ongoing internal workflows that require collaboration with partner teams such as HR and Operations.