Counseling & Advice
We advise and assist our clients, including in-house counsel and human resources professionals, in all aspects of their day-to-day employment needs, often acting as full-time employment counsel. This includes providing timely, strategic and practical advice and counseling; ensuring legal compliance with international, federal, state, and local laws; developing and updating workplace policies and practices; managing and conducting internal investigations and audits; developing and conducting training programs on sexual harassment, workplace misconduct, wage-hour law, and legal compliance; planning and implementing reductions-in-force or other cost-saving alternatives; and drafting and negotiating employment agreements, incentive compensation and equity arrangements, and separation agreements.
Experience Highlights
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Retail company in wage-hour practices, including conducting audits of practices and representing company before administrative agencies and litigation.
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Companies in implementing reductions in force in compliance with both federal and local discrimination laws and WARN legislation, including design of severance plans and adverse-impact analysis.
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Companies in pre-litigation resolution of novel issues, including equal pay and wage-hour claims.
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Board special committees in conducting investigations of senior executives relating to allegations of harassment and other unlawful practices.
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Numerous portfolio companies in negotiating and drafting executive employment agreements, stock option awards, and incentive compensation arrangements both on an ongoing basis and in connection with change-in-control events.
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Company in pre- and post-litigation investigations and defenses of discrimination and harassment claims before EEOC, stage agencies, and in court.
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Client in reviewing and updating employee handbooks and other personnel policies, with emphasis on state and local requirements.
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Company in drafting and negotiating individual employee separation agreements, as well as in counseling on employee terminations.
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Medical device company in hiring of employees who had signed noncompete and nondisclosure agreements with their former employer.
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Financial services company in enforcement of noncompete and nondisclosure agreements against former employees and their new employers.
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