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Position Summary:
We are looking for an Associate Attorney to join our Employment Law & Compliance Team at GovDocs and help power our Employment Law Compliance Platform – trusted by employers nationwide. In this role, you will monitor legislative and regulatory changes, conduct legal research and analysis, and support the ongoing compliance of our products with federal, state, and local employment law requirements. You will also have opportunities to contribute to thought leadership initiatives, including the Employment Law News blogs.
This is an ideal opportunity for an entry-level attorney who is excited about a modern legal role at the intersection of employment law, legislative analysis, and a technology-driven, product-focused environment. As an Associate Attorney, you will receive mentorship while building subject-matter expertise in key employment law areas, contributing to thought leadership, and becoming a trusted resource for GovDocs’ core compliance products.
Flexible Work Model:
We believe that the best way for us to grow is through a work environment that provides flexibility. Currently, our employees work together in our Eagan, MN, office two days a week, where interactions happen with higher frequency and effectiveness to tackle complex problems. This supports collaboration, team engagement, and business innovation. At the same time, we value the benefits of working from home three days a week, where employees have more focused, uninterrupted time with minimal distractions for dedicated project and productive work.
Job Title: Associate Attorney, Employment Law & Compliance
Reports to: Counsel & Manager, Employment Law & Compliance
Status: Regular Full-Time
Base Salary Range: $75,000 – $80,000
Send resume, salary requirements, and cover letter to:
Best Places to Work:
GovDocs was named one of the 2024 Best Places to Work by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal!
Being named an honoree was no easy feat, as they received over 300 nominations for this year’s award. GovDocs was one of the top-scoring Minnesota businesses honored in the medium company category (50-250 employees) for creating a fun, challenging, and rewarding workplace.
Read more about GovDocs as Best Places to Work 2024 here: https://bizj.us/1qlh8s
Responsibilities:
- Monitor legislative and regulatory developments and assess their impact on GovDocs’ Employment Law Compliance Platform.
- Develop subject-matter expertise in wage and hour laws supporting GovDocs’ Minimum Wage Solution and employment law requirements relevant to the Labor Law Poster Program and similar products.
- Perform legal analysis to ensure that all statutory and regulatory requirements are accurately captured, updated, and maintained across GovDocs’ products.
- Conduct legal research on employment law topics such as wage and hour, paid leave, pay transparency, workplace discrimination, and workers’ compensation.
- Support the development of employment law content for GovDocs, including blogs, webinars, guides, whitepapers, infographics, and tip sheets.
- Collaborate with team members to review work product, conduct jurisdictional audits, and support new initiatives.
Qualifications:
- 0-3 years of legal experience
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree required
- Active state bar admission in good standing
- Interest in building multi-jurisdictional expertise in employment law
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and time-management skills
- Ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly to non-legal audiences
- Collaborative, cross-functional mindset with the ability to work effectively our Customer Success, Marketing, Sales, Product, Engineering, and Product Delivery teams
- Techsavvy and able to quickly learn and navigate a range of platforms, including Microsoft 365 (Excel, Word, Outlook, Power BI, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams), Salesforce, Atlassian, legal research databases, legislative tracking tools, and proprietary software
Who You Are:
- You lead by example and share your passion to inspire those around you for growth. You are authentic, driven and positive.
- You possess emotional intelligence and empathy. You have a good sense of humor, are self-aware and self-critical, but not arrogant. You handle interpersonal dynamics with grace.
- You do more than the minimum to achieve outstanding results by being hands-on and rolling up your sleeves now and again when it’s necessary.
- You thrive in a growth-oriented company by embracing and adapting to changes easily. You are open-minded and flexible.
- Your clear communication fosters understanding and collaboration. You express ideas effectively but are also an active listener.
Company Description:
GovDocs serves companies in building and executing their employment law compliance programs in two primary ways:
- Employment Law Posting Update Program: We manage all the complexities of identifying and providing the required set of employment law postings from the 1,700+ potential postings across the U.S. and Canada. Using proprietary technology, we allow companies to manage, track and verify postings at each of their locations. Our Employment Law Posting Update service is used by almost 22% of the Fortune 500, 31% of the Fortune 100 and 34% of Fortune 50 companies.
- Employment Law Compliance Software Solutions: This is a first to market Software-as-a-Service starting with our Minimum Wage product and Paid Leave products, which allow companies to identify and track which laws apply to their locations and employees, then provides all relevant data to make decisions. This service was created in response to requests from some of our largest customers who recognized that employment law expansion across and variances between jurisdictions (Federal, State and Local) were too difficult to manually track.
GovDocs has grown revenue annually by 18% since 2008 with a 96% customer retention rate, primarily due to our Postings Update Program both obtaining and retaining customers – as employment law postings are required by law, every company has an existing provider. Our Software Solutions are an entirely new line of business that gives us great growth potential to create a full Employment Law Compliance (ELC) platform of solutions, it is also challenging us to reinvent how we view urgency, innovation and teamwork.
You must be authorized to work in the United States. Immigration or work visa sponsorship will not be provided. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
Compensation:
This position is critical to the success of our business and the compensation package will be commensurate with candidate’s experience and skills. This role will include a base salary and performance-based incentives. Benefits include; paid vacation, paid volunteer time, paid holidays, medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, flexible spending account, health savings account, group life insurance, voluntary life insurance, group short-term disability, group long-term disability, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, a matching 401(k), employee assistance programs, pet health insurance, and value-added programs.
Send resume, salary requirements and cover letter to careers@govdocs.com.