Jim Beyer Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Assigned as full time contractor to Hilton providing labor and employment law advice in multiple areas, including acting as primary legal contact for EEOC/State/Local FEP Charges; Provide advice and legal guidance to the organization regarding recent changes in labor and employment laws; Review and advise regarding various Company policies; draft legal.

Chicago, IL, US

Adjunct Professor of Law- courses taught in Privacy Rights in Employment Law and International Employment Law

I am on staff at two legal staffing providers and provide labor and employment law services to corporations.

From 1/1/2023 to 9/2023, I was on staff at two legal staffing firms to provide labor and employment law services to corporations. From 4/2020 to 12/31/2022, I provided legal advisory and consulting services to colleagues while pursuing longtime dream of authoring a novel. I maintained ongoing expertise of labor and employment law by involvement in the.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Identified legal solutions to complex issues and advised internal business heads and HR resources with precise and clear counsel related to employment matters. Led globally-diverse team of 20, including serving as.
• Directed planning and preparation of large cases, including engaging with CEO to resolve potentially very expensive matters.-Managed litigation concerning alleged unethical business practices in which claims were filed.
• Created processes and procedures to reduce business risk and improve efficiencies as part of onboarding and off-boarding terminated employees.
• Reduced legal liability and improved performance by serving as legal advisor to HR and other management teams on wide array of legal matters in global jurisdictions.
• Introduced rigor and standardized practices to identify and hire outside counsel.

Schenectady, NY, US

• Served in high-profile legal advisory role to support management and HR professionals in US and globally on matters, including performance management, employee separations and redundancies, wage & hour compliance, ADA.
• Added value as member of task force in redesigning and implementing GE’s employment arbitration dispute program in accordance with legislative changes to maintain compliance with federal laws.
• Pursued and secured successful outcome in California case involving arbitration provision; delivered presentation to GE power and labor and employment lawyers country-wide.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Delivered ongoing legal support to Accenture and other clients through this international AmLaw 100 law firm. Counseled on employment, litigation, and international matters. Led large Fair Labor Standards Act audit. Served 4 months as interim employment counsel to Fortune 10 corporation.

Dublin 2, IE

• Advanced growth of company from 60,000 employees in 1998 to 215,000+ staff by 2011. Directed employment law team and managed litigation, including domestic employee population of 35,000 staff. Built, managed, and.
• Led effort to secure signed agreements within 60 days by partners in 50 countries as part of Accenture’s transition from privately held partnership model to NYSE listed company. Recognized for exceptional handling of.
• Realized 100% employment engagement score 3 times by improving and empowering employment law team.
• Secured successful dismissal of California Wage & Hour class case; reached settlement of nominal amount of alleged class action contending that background checks identifying criminal convictions had disparate impact.
• Designed and executed global workforce policies and oversaw US labor and union issues and union issues in Canada; implemented training policies to maintain union-free environment in US.
• Championed employment law team in developing e-discovery policies and procedures; directed implementation of initial Code of Business Ethics.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Managed all litigation, employment law and communications issues in the U.S. for the IBM Global Services, Network Services business unit and for coordinating these activities worldwide with IBM foreign lawyers.
• Designed and supervised numerous workforce reduction programs resulting in multi-million dollar savings to company and no successful legal challenges. Created new criteria which became model for other business units.
• Represented company in mediation of multiple plaintiff employment action challenging workforce reduction. Resolved claims for costs of severance package that was offered to all employees in workforce reduction..
• Directly negoitated large outsourcing agreement with multinational financial services organization
• negotiated all real estate issues in divestiture of major network communication leases

Doctor Of Law (Jd), Law

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Politcal Science