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Lewis & Associates LLC

Employee Benefits Attorney

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Chicago, IL, USA
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Chicago, IL, USA
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Associate-level role in the Employee Benefits group advising on qualified retirement and welfare benefit plans. Requires law firm experience and strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills to provide practical, strategic counsel to clients.
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Company Description

LEWIS & ASSOCIATES  is a leader in providing Legal and Administrative staffing services.  We are a sole source staffing firm giving you convenient ways of working with us. We make every effort to ensure the highest degree of professionalism and integrity in the staffing process. We understand the demanding role of recruiting to source the highest level of legal professionals while incorporating proven, innovative, and successful recruiting techniques.

Job Description

Great opportunity to work for an international law firm that provides thoughtful, strategic, practical legal counsel to client companies and legal teams of all sizes. With more than 800 attorneys in the U.S., London, Shanghai, Melbourne and Sydney, the firm offers a national platform and an international gateway to serve your changing business and legal needs in litigation, employment, corporate, real estate and employee benefits.

The firm has gained acclaim for our innovative Lean client service model, which incorporates the core principles of Lean Six Sigma to the delivery of legal services, and they continue to develop new reporting and project management tools for greater transparency and collaboration with their clients.

The firms efforts have contributed to their recognition by in-house counsel as ‘Best of the Best’ for client service within the 2014 BTI Consulting Group's Client Service A-Team and being named by the Financial Times U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report among the most innovative law firms.

Qualifications

We are seeking an associate attorney with 1 to 5 years of experience to join the Employee Benefits department in the Chicago office.  Candidates should have experience with qualified retirement plans and welfare benefit plans.  Excellent academic credentials, analytical skills and verbal and written communication skills, and at least 2 years law firm experience required. 

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