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Requisition ID 2025-110428 Category Legal & Compliance Position type Regular Pay range USD $167,400.00 - $230,000.00 / Year Application deadline 2025-05-30

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Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

This position is on the litigation team in the Risk and Regulatory Legal Group. RiskReg is also affectionately, colloquially and unofficially known as the flagship of Schwab's Legal Department. Schwab’s litigation team is a group of exceptionally gifted lawyers and support professionals primarily responsible for defending legal claims against Schwab and protecting Schwab’s rights. The team provides world-class strategic legal direction and is cohesive, tightly knit, and values collaboration and culture.

Responsibilities

As a Director Legal Counsel-Employment Litigation , you will join this team and handle employment and labor-related claims against the company, from their inception to their resolution. Your responsibilities will include:

Litigation: Lead, supervise, manage, and litigate labor and employment cases, including the most complex and challenging matters. Responsibilities include conducting research; factual investigation and discovery; interviewing witnesses; drafting pleadings and submissions; negotiating with opposing counsel; and appearing in proceedings on behalf of Schwab. Providing strategic direction: Lead and guide the firm’s strategic approach toward case management, trial preparation, and representation on labor and employment matters. Counseling and collaborating: Work across the legal department and with business counterparts and corporate affairs to ensure transparency and alignment; proactively identify risks and recommend mitigation strategies; and lead and conduct training for legal, compliance, and business teams. Leading: Supervise, manage, and direct outside counsel, ensuring that case assessment, strategy, and execution are aligned with Schwab’s vision and objectives. Learning: Continuously expand your knowledge and skills to best advise on issues essential to Schwab’s business strategy. Having fun: Culture is vital to us! You’ll be joining a terrific team and some of the best professionals in the industry. While this is serious work, we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Other duties as otherwise assigned: IYKYK. And when you’re a litigator, you know that it’s impossible to capture everything that goes into trial or litigation in a simple job description.

What you have

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of “challenging the status quo,” this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

A law degree (JD, LLB or equivalent) from an accredited US law school. Admission to and in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar. Minimum of eight years of experience as a practicing attorney in-house, at a law firm, or with the government. Five years of experience leading labor- and employment-related litigation and advisory matters.

Preferred Qualifications

Strategic, practical, and creative insights with excellent emotional intelligence and outstanding client relationship management and negotiation skills. Extraordinary interpersonal and communication skills and excellence at communicating information effectively internally and externally, including to non-legal audiences. Excellent judgment and comfort making critical decisions under challenging circumstances and compressed timelines. Comfort with people – from the most senior executive leaders to folks that have never talked to a lawyer before — and being equally at home in a conference room, a board room, a virtual meeting, or a courtroom. Confidence and decisiveness. A love for challenges and solving problems, taking pride in your work, and finding joy in the process.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions Paid parental leave and family building benefits Tuition reimbursement Health, dental, and vision insurance

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Eligible Schwabbies receive

Medical, dental and vision benefits 401(k) and employee stock purchase plans Tuition reimbursement to keep developing your career Paid parental leave and adoption/family building benefits Sabbatical leave available after five years of employment

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