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Senior Corporate Counsel

• Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

• Job ID 0000022098

• Category Legal, Compliance & Audit

Job Description

Do you want to be part of a dynamic regional legal team contributing to the world’s most well loved toy brand?

Are you a curious lawyer with a strong passion and expertise for employment law with a business-enabling mentality?

Core Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for Employment-related matters across our sales, marketing and manufacturing entities throughout the United States and Canada.

• Provide practical and strategic legal advice to Human Resource professionals and business professionals and the Vice President & General Counsel, Americas on US and Canadian employment laws.

• Oversee employment litigation in federal and state courts, including managing outside counsel, recommending litigation strategies, and supervising the litigation process.

• Provide business-minded, practical advice and counsel to the Human Resource team, management, and other partners on issues including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, performance management, compensation, leaves of absence, discipline and termination, employee relations, leave and disability laws, and state and federal laws and regulations.

• Partner with Human Resource team to create, update, and maintain policies and practices.

• Assist in the management of other, non-employment law litigation and inquiries by state and federal authorities.

Play your part in our team succeeding

As part of the Americas Regional legal team reporting to the VP & General Counsel, Americas, this role will focus on supporting and developing the employment law strategy within the Americas region. This includes providing expert legal advice on a broad range of employment-related issues, contributing to policy development, and ensuring compliance with all relevant employment laws and regulations.

As there will be opportunities to interact and work together with the regional and global legal teams in other areas of the business, this role will be expected to be a strong teammate within both teams to provide the best value-adding legal support to our relevant partners with strong business partnering skills and a global mentality.

LCR Americas is the regional legal team covering all of the Americas region, with lawyers in Boston, MA, Enfield, CT, Mexico City, MX, Monterrey, MX, Richmond, VA as well as Billund, Denmark and London, United Kingdom and Shanghai, China in a variety of legal positions.

Do you have what it takes?

• The successful candidate will be a qualified lawyer with proven experience in employment law, preferably at both a law firm and as in-house counsel with both domestic and international experience.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to explain complex information clearly and effectively to different audiences.

• Strong analytical capabilities and judgment.

• Ability to work proactively, independently, and reliably under tight timeframes in a fast-paced environment.

• Capability to work efficiently and collaboratively across functions, think logically, and identify practical solutions.

• Willingness to tackle matters outside area of expertise.

• Desire to work as a partner to the business with the skills for finding pragmatic solutions to challenges within the employment law field.

• Experience in developing and conducting training programs for employees and management on various employment law topics.

• Prior experience as a litigator and/or managing litigation from an in-house position, including but not limited to participating in responses to subpoenas from state and federal authorities.

Additional details on this position

This position will initially be based at 501 Boylston St, Back Bay, before moving to a new office location at 1001 Boylston St by the mid-2025. Our hiring teams will discuss this with you during the interview stages.

Our workplace enables our LEGO® colleagues to be and do their best at work. Introducing a flexible way of working through a hybrid working model is a great example of how we live up to our ambition. This 3-day in the office hybrid working model will exemplify our People Promise by embracing the different life situations of our colleagues.

The salary for this position has a range of <$124k - $187k> based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalization of the employment offer.

Join the global LEGO® team!

• What’s in it for you? Here are some of what to expect:

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based

• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.

• Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme

Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.