Manager, Legal Affairs

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Primary Purpose: This role provides advanced legal and operational support to Tapestry’s in-house Legal Department with respect to litigation, e-discovery, subpoenas, governmental and administrative matters and other department initiatives. The role partners closely with attorneys, outside counsel, and business stakeholders across Tapestry and its Coach and kate spade new york brands; exercises sound judgment; and operates independently in a complex, fast-paced environment. The role reports to the Vice President & Deputy General Counsel and is hybrid, with three days per week in our Hudson Yards, NYC office required, subject to change with Company policy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced litigation support in complex civil, commercial, employment, regulatory, and other matters involving Tapestry and its brands, including case file management, deadline tracking, and matter status reporting.
• Coordinate legal holds, e-discovery, document preservation, collection, review, and production processes in partnership with attorneys, outside counsel, IT and business stakeholders.
• Assist in case preparation, including preparing chronologies, exhibits, discovery materials, and other litigation and investigation work product under attorney supervision.
• Serve as a technology-forward member of the Legal Department, with the ability to independently navigate, troubleshoot, and optimize document management systems, e-discovery platforms, workflow tools, matter management tools, and enterprise applications. Handle system-driven processes with minimal assistance and demonstrate a committment to continuous learning as legal technology evolves.
• Track and manage legal spend, including at the matter-level; assist with budgets, accruals, outside counsel invoices, vendor management, and Legal Department financial reporting.
• Serve as a procedural and operational resource on litigation, discovery, records and knowledge management best practices.
• Collaborate with attorneys and other department team members, outside counsel, and business stakeholders to ensure efficient matter management, timely execution, and adherence to deadlines.
• Manage matter files, document collection and productions, pleadings, correspondence, reports, and other materials in accordance with Legal Department protocols.
• Draft correspondence, declarations, discovery responses, subpoenas, and related materials; gather, review, and analyze information and documents needed for discovery responses.
• Continue to evolve and administer the document preservation notice process, including drafting, distributing, tracking and updating legal holds as appropriate.
• Perform factual and legal research using specialized software and tools, including Harvey, Westlaw/Lexis, PACER, Relativity, and internal databases, to locate, compile, and analyze information.
• Support the drafting, implementation, rollout, and maintenance of policies, procedures, training materials, and playbooks for the Legal Department.
• Draft and coordinate responses to subpoenas, governmental inquiries, and administrative claims and charges, including EEOC, OSHA, ministries or departments of labor, and other employment, regulatory, and escalated consumer matters.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and revise NDAs, routine commercial agreements, settlement documents, and other legal documents, escalating legal and business issues to attorneys as appropriate.

The accomplished individual will possess . . .

• Bachelor’s degree required; paralegal certificate or equivalent legal training preferred.
• At least six (6) years of progressive legal support experience in a law firm, corporate in-house legal department, or comparable legal, compliance, or legal operations function.
• Strong understanding of litigation hold practices, e-discovery tools, document preservation, records management requirements, and discovery workflows.
• Ability to manage projects, prioritize work, multitask, and respond effectively to shifting priorities and urgent deadlines.
• Experience developing, documenting, and managing document review protocols, workflows, and quality-control processes.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, legal research platforms, e-discovery tools, document management systems, matter-management systems, and litigation software such as Westlaw/Lexis, PACER, and Relativity.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, professionally, and practically with attorneys, business stakeholders, outside counsel, and vendors.

An outstanding individual will have . . .

• Demonstrated ability to manage projects, prioritize work, multitask effectively, and respond to shifting priorities with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a large, fast-paced, global, publicly traded, consumer-facing organization with a high level of responsiveness, professionalism, and sound business judgment.
• Flexibility to project manage and/or oversee legal, compliance, policy, or legal operations projects outside the area of primary responsibility.

• Hands-on experience supporting litigation matters and managing e-discovery processes, including document collection, review, production, and use of review platforms.
• Prior experience in an in-house legal department supporting a global, publicly traded organization, ideally in retail, fashion, luxury, consumer products, or another brand-driven industry.
• Proven ability to exercise sound judgment, handle confidential and sensitive information, demonstrate flexibility in the face of changing priorities, and operate independently to meet deadlines while partnering professionally with attorneys and business leaders.

Our Competencies for All Employees
Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
 
Our Competencies for All People Managers
Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.                                                                                                    
 

Tapestry, Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.

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