Labor & Employment Attorney

The Opportunity

Williams Parker, the region’s largest and oldest law firm, founded in 1925, is seeking an accomplished Labor & Employment Attorney to join its growing employer-side practice. The ideal candidate will bring approximately 10 to 15 years of private-practice experience, a portable book of business, and an established presence along Florida’s Gulf Coast, from Tampa Bay through Sarasota and South Sarasota County.

This opportunity is designed for an attorney with a strong professional reputation, deep substantive experience, and the strategic judgment to guide employers through complex workplace challenges while helping strengthen the section’s capabilities, market presence, and future leadership.

What You Will Do

• Counsel employers on complex workplace matters. Provide practical, business-oriented guidance on workforce strategy, employee relations, hiring, discipline, accommodations, leave management, wage and hour compliance, reductions in force, separations, restrictive covenants, executive employment matters, and related risks.
• Represent employers in litigation and administrative proceedings. Handle employment litigation, arbitration, EPLI claims, class and collective actions, and matters before federal and state courts, the EEOC, NLRB, Department of Labor, OSHA, and related agencies.
• Lead workplace investigations and ris