Significantly, our employment law advice is anchored in the business context and this approach is applied to every facet of our practice, including the following:

Counseling on all aspects of the employment relationship

• Recruitment and hiring
• Preparation of full range of employment agreements
• Preparation of employment policies/procedures
• Exempt/non-exempt FLSA classification
• Avoiding and reducing wage and hour liability
• Internal compliance audits
• Intellectual property and trade secret protection
• Employee mobility and restrictive covenants
• Workplace violence
• Privacy issues
• Individual terminations
• Reductions in force and WARN compliance
• Independent contractor classification

Training and Investigations

• Harassment and discrimination prevention training
• Managing within the law training
• Internal harassment and discrimination complaints and investigations
• Governmental audits investigation
• Whistleblower complaints
• Other internal investigations (e.g., retaliation, theft)

Litigation

• Covenants not to compete and employee mobility cases
• Individual discrimination cases
• Individual contract cases
• FLSA collective actions
• Class actions
• Government-initiated litigation in courts or administrative forums

Mergers & Acquisitions/IPOs

• Pre-merger strategy for integration
• Diligence review/ Liability assessment
• Employment agreements
• Non-compete and other restrictive covenants
• Intellectual property issues
• Post-merger integration services
• Preparing target company for sale or public offering