The role focuses on sophisticated employment law matters at the intersection of employment law, executive mobility, and corporate transactions, distinct from traditional employment law roles.
The team advises on high-stakes matters where workforce decisions directly affect enterprise value, leadership continuity, and transaction success, blending strategic advisory work, risk assessment, transactional counseling, and crisis management.
Collaboration with McGuireWoods’ nationally ranked Healthcare, Private Equity, and M&A teams involves counseling corporate clients and private equity sponsors on employment issues arising from acquisitions, divestitures, leadership transitions, restrictive covenant disputes, and post-closing integration.
Core responsibilities include counseling clients on workplace policies, employment compliance, employee relations, and HR matters, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage-and-hour issues.
The role involves advising on restrictive covenant and wage misclassification issues, including the structuring, drafting, and enforceability of non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality obligations.
Key duties include leading employment-related due diligence in corporate and private equity transactions, identifying and prioritizing material legal and business risks, developing practical mitigation strategies, and supervising junior associates.
Attorneys in this role independently manage complex employment matters and transactional workstreams, identify material risks, develop practical recommendations, coordinate with deal teams, and deliver timely, client-ready work product.
The position requires partnering with senior executives and corporate leadership to advise on sensitive personnel, leadership transition, and governance issues where discretion and strategic judgment are essential, and providing mentorship and developmental support to junior associates.

McGuireWoods LLP

Senior Transactional Labor & Employment Associate or Counsel

6+ PQE · October 30, 2026 (Today)

McGuireWoods LLP

6+ PQE · October 30, 2026 (Today)

Employment type

Full-time

Practice area

Labor & Employment · Counseling · M&A · Transactional

Location

Dallas

Trusted recruiters

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Overview

The role focuses on sophisticated employment law matters at the intersection of employment law, executive mobility, and corporate transactions, distinct from traditional employment law roles.
The team advises on high-stakes matters where workforce decisions directly affect enterprise value, leadership continuity, and transaction success, blending strategic advisory work, risk assessment, transactional counseling, and crisis management.
Collaboration with McGuireWoods’ nationally ranked Healthcare, Private Equity, and M&A teams involves counseling corporate clients and private equity sponsors on employment issues arising from acquisitions, divestitures, leadership transitions, restrictive covenant disputes, and post-closing integration.
Core responsibilities include counseling clients on workplace policies, employment compliance, employee relations, and HR matters, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage-and-hour issues.
The role involves advising on restrictive covenant and wage misclassification issues, including the structuring, drafting, and enforceability of non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality obligations.
Key duties include leading employment-related due diligence in corporate and private equity transactions, identifying and prioritizing material legal and business risks, developing practical mitigation strategies, and supervising junior associates.
Attorneys in this role independently manage complex employment matters and transactional workstreams, identify material risks, develop practical recommendations, coordinate with deal teams, and deliver timely, client-ready work product.
The position requires partnering with senior executives and corporate leadership to advise on sensitive personnel, leadership transition, and governance issues where discretion and strategic judgment are essential, and providing mentorship and developmental support to junior associates.

Trusted recruiters

Top recruiter for this opening
Jack Bergin
Illapa Search
Jack Bergin
Illapa Search
Josh Powers joined McGuireWoods’s Dallas office in the Corporate group.
Jack heard my needs, he set realistic expectations about my wants, and he is ultra-responsive. What more could you ask for? If you are looking to make a change, talk to Jack.

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Last updated: October 30, 2026

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