Employment Counsel

             Our client, Adtalem Global Education (NYSE: ATGE), is a leading education provider and parent company to institutions of higher learning internationally.  Adtalem is moving its headquarters to downtown Chicago on December 1, and this position will be located at the new HQ. 

             The Employment Counsel:

Partners with HR leadership by providing practical legal support and day-to-day employment counseling on a wide variety of matters including wage and hour practices, accommodation requests and the interactive process, benefits support, discipline, discrimination and harassment investigations, and recruiting and hiring practices, etc.  

Participates in the development of legally compliant policies and practices in all areas of labor and employment in addition to developing and conducting training on such policies and practices.  

Represents ATGE and its institutions in response to threatened employment-related claims, demand letters, and before government agencies in employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wage matters, including the EEOC, its state counterparts, the DOL and NLRB.  

Provides support and guidance on restructures and reductions-in-force, including OWBPA disclosure requirements.  

Negotiates and prepares agreements including faculty agreements, consulting agreements, separation and severance agreements and definite term employment contracts.

Partners with HR senior leadership in creating and implementing polices and maintains working knowledge of organization policies and federal, state and local legislation and updates policies when necessary.  

Supports institutions subject to OFFCP requirements by providing guidance on development of affirmative action plans and goals and compliance audits.

Manages outside counsel in handling employment litigation, as needed.

Completes other duties as assigned.     

        Our ideal candidate will be a subject matter expert focused on the employment law needs of major corporations, either in an outside counsel capacity or as in-house counsel.  Prefer 6+ years out of law school.  Local candidates preferred.  Competitive compensation includes an attractive equity component.  Please send your resume to mike@everslegal.com or call us at 312-225-1144 with questions.  Evers Legal is working on this opportunity exclusively; inquiries made directly to Adtalem will be routed to our search firm.

Principal Financial Group is a leading financial services company based in Des Moines, IA.  Terrific in-house legal department.  Relocation package available.  If you are an attorney with asset management experience who is willing to consider the excellent lifestyle and low cost of living in Des Moines, please contact mike@everslegal.com for more information.

Here is an overview description of the position:

Asset Management attorney

Provides legal services to a number of internal clients on a variety of matters in support of a global asset management business.  A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience at a law firm and/or company is preferred.  Candidates should have strong corporate and transactional experience. Experience with laws and regulations applicable to investment management including US and international regulations regarding investment advisers and investment funds is a plus.

Our Client, Baxter International (Deerfield, IL), has retained Evers Legal to source top of market talent to fill a high profile position supporting the Pharmaceuticals Global Business Unit.  Outstanding compensation includes a significant annual equity grant.

We need an industry attorney with 7+ years of experience, including substantial knowledge of the drug development life cycle and FDA regulations.  This is an operational role; you will counsel clients and have significant negotiating responsibility on a variety of complex commercial transactions.

The law department at Baxter maintains an ongoing reputation as one of the best departments in the industry, paying at top of market, and employing attorneys with excellent pedigree.  If you are a partner or senior associate with a pharma practice at a major law firm seeking “the right” in-house opportunity, this is it.  If you are already in-house and have the right qualifications, Baxter will take care of relocation if you are non-local and want to pursue the opportunity.

Please email mike@everslegal.com with questions and a resume.

Update:  Congratulations Greg Lacey!  Greg is a former Partner with Dykema Gossett and we are pleased to have Greg on this assignment for our client, DeVry Education Group.  If your company can benefit from a fabulous, well rounded employment law attorney, Greg will be available in September.

Our client is a name brand company in the western suburbs of Chicago.  We are seeking an employment law attorney to cover (primarily on-site, but some flexibility there) during a family leave absence.  Ideally mid-May into September.  Please email mike@everslegal.com for client name and additional information.  Thank you.

Update:  Filled

We are conducting a retained search for a downtown Chicago based company that wishes to keep this search confidential at this time.  We will share our client’s name with you offline after further discussion.  This is a growing entity seeking its first in-house counsel.  Senior Counsel title for a role primarily focused on commercial contracts with an IT focus.  Seeking candidates 5+ years out of law school, with a strong preference for in-house experience.  Compensation at about $200K (salary plus cash bonus), plus equity participation.  Email mike@everslegal.com or call 312-225-1144 for inquiries on this opportunity.

Update:  Position on hold until late 2017.  Interested candidates are still encouraged to contact us with interest.

Evers Legal has been exclusively retained by Border States Electric (www.borderstates.com) to recruit its first General Counsel.  You will manage two junior attorneys, report to the CEO, and have full strategic responsibility for running the legal function.

Border States (founded in 1952) is a growing leading provider of supplies, materials management solutions, and delivery and logistics expertise to tens of thousands of customers across diverse industries.  Border States is 100 percent employee-owned (over 2,200 employees) with locations throughout the country.

This position will require (fully covered) relocation to our client’s HQ in Fargo, North Dakota.  This is an opportunity to make a great career move and enjoy the combination of outstanding compensation with a low cost of living geography.

We seek candidates who are 10+ years out of law school, with at least some major law firm teeth cutting experience, preferably with expertise in M&A and corporate law generally.  We are open to individuals coming from established law departments (this could be a nice step up move for an AGC or DGC with a larger company, for example), or directly from a firm.

For a complete job description and more information, please email mike@everslegal.com.  Evers Legal is handling this search exclusively,  so please do not make attempts to send resumes directly to the client, as they will be routed to us.  If you are a search firm reading this and have a candidate in mind, please contact Mike Evers for discussion.  We are open to referral fees and always act in our client’s best interest.  Do not send a candidate resume with a fee split expectation, however, in advance of talking with Mike.

Evers Legal has been retained by Deerfield, IL based Baxter International to recruit great candidates for a newly created position that includes both sophisticated M&A work and corporate governance responsibilities.  The winner will bring securities and corporate transactional experience to the table.  We are targeting law firm attorneys at the junior partner and senior associate levels, and in-house attorneys at the Corporate Counsel to Senior Counsel levels.  Very competitive compensation includes a significant annual equity grant.  Please call Mike Evers at 312-225-1144 for more information or send your resume to mike@everslegal.com.

Update:  Closed

Our client Volvo Financial Services in Greensboro, North Carolina, seeks an attorney with 4+ years of experience for an equipment leasing and finance role.  Relocation package available.  Qualified candidates will have expertise in UCC Article 2A and Article 9 transactions.  Exposure to bankruptcy matters and litigation management helpful.  You will work with sales, operations, and credit functions in developing and implementing legal policies and documentation for commercial truck, tractor, trailer, construction equipment, bus and other specialized transportation and commercial equipment financing products in the United States.  Title: Senior Legal Counsel.

We welcome law firm associates with relevant experience seeking to make their first move in-house.  Of course, if you are in-house with a bank or captive finance company and seek the opportunity to live in beautiful Greensboro and work for a terrific legal team, we want your resume too.  Please email to mike@everslegal.com

Update:  Filled (However, we always welcome candidates who fit the description below, as our Adjunct Counsel service employs contracts attorneys routinely.)

Law department of major company with office location near O’Hare.  We are paying $45 to $50 per hour for a junior level contracts role.  Full-time, ongoing.  Some exposure to bankruptcy helpful but not required.  Our client is financially healthy, but some of the contracts are impacted by corporate customer bankruptcies.  Please email resume to info@everslegal.com.  Thank you.

Update:  Filled.

We are conducting a search for a pharmaceutical client located in the northern suburbs of Chicago.  6+ years of experience, generalist role (i.e. supports commercial operations), but does require industry regulatory knowledge (FDA, Prescription Drug Marketing Act, Anti-kickback statutes, etc.).  Pharma industry experience required, will gladly consider candidates straight out of law firms as well as in-house counsel.  Please email resume to mike@everslegal.com or call 312-225-1144.