Senior Counsel for Litigation, Claims, & Employment

Apex Service Partners, LLC (“Apex”) is the nationwide leader in residential home services (HVAC, plumbing, and electrical). Founded in 2019, Apex has experienced massive growth and is now in over 200 locations, in 46 states, with 14,000 talented team members, and with investment from some of the top private equity firms in the world. Apex’s revenue is currently approximately $3.5 billion annually, and that number continues to grow very rapidly.

The residential home services industry is highly fragmented and is dominated by small and founder-owned businesses. Apex has pursued an aggressive strategy to grow its business organically and through a high volume of acquisitions (over 350 closed to date). Although Apex is the largest player in the industry, it has only 2% of the market share, and approximately 85% of the market remains fragmented. Importantly, we are building our company with a long-term strategy, which means we will invest in top talent and intend to create an enduring firm that is a great employer and member of the community, in addition to being successful in a business sense.

We are seeking a proactive, business-minded Senior Counsel for Litigation, Claims, & Employment to serve as a senior member of the Legal Department and work alongside the Company’s Chief Legal Officer and the Assistant General Counsel for Litigation & Employment. The successful candidate will share responsibility for a high-volume, nationwide portfolio of litigation, claims, employment matters, investigations, and pre-litigation disputes.

The role requires at least 7 years of meaningful litigation and employment-law experience, excellent judgment, strong advocacy and communication skills, and the ability to move quickly in a decentralized, multi-state, acquisition-driven business. Our mission is to support the Company’s explosive growth, identify and mitigate hidden risks, protect the brand, build a “fortress company,” and promote legal, regulatory, and corporate compliance.

If you like a fun, high-energy work environment filled with bright and driven leaders and have a thirst to contribute to high-achieving teams, this will be a great fit. Your growth here could be virtually unlimited, given the Company’s trajectory.

This attorney will be a key member of the growing Legal Department and will work closely with the Assistant General Counsel for Litigation & Employment, the Chief Legal Officer, and the rest of the Legal Department.

We are looking for an experienced, dynamic, self-motivated, and highly organized attorney who can independently own matters from intake through resolution, provide practical advice directly to senior leaders and field operations, and collaborate closely with the Company’s paralegals, HR, Risk, Insurance, Finance, Compliance, IT, and business teams.

• Manage a substantial nationwide docket of litigation, arbitration, administrative agency matters, and significant claims, including employment, wage-and-hour, restrictive-covenant, commercial, consumer, contract, personal injury, property damage, and regulatory matters.
• Select, retain, direct, and oversee outside counsel; establish strategy; review and revise material filings; prepare for mediations, arbitrations, hearings, and trials; and hold firms accountable to budgets, staffing plans, and outcomes.
• Evaluate new lawsuits, subpoenas, claims, agency charges, and demand letters; investigate facts; assess legal and business exposure; and recommend practical resolution strategies.
• Lead settlement strategy and negotiations, including mediations, and draft or oversee settlement agreements, separation agreements, customer releases, and other resolution documents within delegated authority.
• Prepare concise case assessments, exposure and reserve recommendations, litigation reports, and executive-level updates; coordinate with Finance, Accounting, Risk, and insurers as appropriate.
• Direct document preservation, legal holds, collections, e-discovery, and discovery responses in coordination with IT, business custodians, outside counsel, and vendors.
• Identify and prepare company representatives and other witnesses for interviews, investigations, depositions, mediations, hearings, arbitrations, and trial.

• Take responsibility for pre-suit disputes and escalations, including demand letters, subpoenas, customer disputes, employment claims, Attorney General matters, and inquiries from the EEOC, DOL, OSHA, state labor and civil-rights agencies, licensing authorities, and other governmental bodies.
• Partner with Insurance and Risk Management on tenders, coverage and allocation issues, carrier strategy and communications, defense-counsel selection, significant claims, and settlement authority.
• Lead or support sensitive internal investigations with HR, Compliance, and Operations, including witness interviews, privilege strategy, factual findings, and practical remediation recommendations.

• Identify litigation, claims, and employee-relations trends and root causes; recommend improvements to policies, practices, contracts, training, documentation, and escalation protocols.
• Provide day-to-day employment and litigation-avoidance counseling to HR, executives, regional leadership, and field operations on discipline, terminations, reductions in force, accommodations, leaves, wage-and-hour issues, investigations, restrictive covenants, separations, severance, documentation, and escalation.
• Draft and maintain playbooks, templates, forms, FAQs, and training materials for litigation, claims, investigations, employment matters, agency responses, restrictive-covenant enforcement, and dispute resolution.

• Maintain accurate matter records, deadlines, budgets, reserves, accruals, and key documents in the Company’s matter-management and document-repository systems.
• Review and approve outside counsel invoices against billing guidelines.
• Track legal spend, matter outcomes, settlement performance, trends, and other meaningful metrics, and report clear insights to Legal and business leadership.

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school.
• Active bar license in good standing in any state in the U.S., or eligibility to register as in-house counsel.
• At least 7 years of progressively responsible litigation and employment law experience at a law firm, in-house legal department, or a combination of both.
• Hands-on experience across the full litigation lifecycle, including early case assessment, pleadings, discovery, motion practice, depositions, mediation, trial preparation, and resolution.
• Strong legal research, writing, and oral advocacy skills.
• Sound judgment on risk, with the ability to give business leaders clear and practical recommendations.
• Ability to manage a high-volume docket and meet competing deadlines with limited supervision.
• Substantial experience with commercial litigation, employment counseling and disputes, plus consumer, commercial, restrictive-covenant, and/or claims litigation in a multi-state, multi-location business.
• Experience managing outside counsel and litigation budgets.
• Experience with arbitration agreements and programs, class and collective action defense, wage-and-hour matters, EEOC and state-agency proceedings, and employment investigations.
• Experience with insured claims, coverage issues, carrier communications, and coordinating defense and settlement strategy with insurers and brokers.
• Meaningful mediation, arbitration, evidentiary-hearing, and/or trial experience.
• Comfort with matter management, e-billing, and e-discovery platforms.

• Ownership: Treats each matter as their own and drives it to resolution.
• Business Focus: Weighs legal risk against cost, operations, and customer impact.
• Communication: Explains complex issues in plain terms to non-lawyers and executives.
• Collaboration: Builds trust with HR, operations, finance, and field leadership.
• Efficiency: Resolves matters at the right cost and knows when to settle and when to fight.

• A positive attitude and sense of humor.
• Demonstrated ability to move fluidly between litigation, claims, counseling, investigations, and urgent business escalations.
• Familiarity with federal and state administrative-agency procedures, including the EEOC, DOL, OSHA, state labor and civil-rights agencies, and labor-board proceedings.
• Professionalism, discretion, and a client-focused mindset.
• Thrives in a nimble, lean, unstructured, fast-paced entrepreneurial environment.
• A high level of ethics, values, and personal integrity.
• Exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, reliable, and hardworking, with the ability to manage numerous high-priority matters concurrently, exercise independent judgment, and align with Legal Department strategy.
• An ambitious self-starter capable of independently driving matters to completion while operating as a collaborative, low-ego team member.
• Excellent communication, time management, and listening skills.
• Self-aware, accepting, honest, open, and respectful of others.

• Based in the Las Colinas/Irving, Texas office four days per week, with Wednesday designated as the regular remote-work day, subject to business needs.
• Competitive compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Unlimited PTO, sick days, and holidays.
• 401(k) matching program.