Practice Areas

Employment Claims and Labor Relations

We help companies prevent and, when required, defend against the ever-increasing array of claims that employees and government agencies bring against employers. Our attorneys have decades of experience in employment law matters.

Just by way of example:

• We have substantial experience in defending and preventing claims that allege sexual harassment, overtime violations, unlawful discrimination, retaliation, and ADA, FMLA and OSHA issues.
• We perform “legal audits” to uncover our clients’ employment practices vulnerabilities, and we design and implement policies and procedures that respond to these needs, ranging from employee handbooks to management protocols.
• We serve as general counsel to the MidAtlantic Employers’ Association, an organization of over 700 companies. We train their members in employment and business best practices, provide them with educational materials, and staff an “attorney hotline” where members can call to obtain quick answers to employment practices and business questions.
• We regularly train executives, managers and supervisors at a variety of large, small, local and national companies in the art of avoiding employment practices liabilities. Many companies, trade associations and professional organizations engage us as featured speakers on these and related topics.
• We are regularly retained to defend employment practices claims covered under various employment practices liability, directorsand officers, and errorsand omissions insurance policies, and we serve as monitoring counsel on behalf of insurance carriers and third party administrators involved in the defense of these claims.
• We negotiate and draft sophisticated employment agreements, including compensation, non-competition, non-solicitation, non-disclosure, and intellectual property provisions.

See the PROBLEMS PREVENTED AND SOLVED section of the website for specific examples of our work in the employment law field.

In addition, we are regularly engaged to present seminars to businesses seeking our “take” on the employment law issues that are of the greatest concern. Some recent examples of seminars we presented:

• The EFCA Threat: How to Stay Non-Union…Before It’s Too Late
• The Times They Are A-Changin’: What Employers Need to Know, Right Now
• What Employers Should Expect from the Obama Administration and the New Congress
• How the Recession Changes the Employer versus Employee War… And What to Do About It
• The HR Toolkit: Six Ways to Save Money and Avoid Lawyers
• Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: The ADAAA, FMLA, Workers’ Comp, and OSHA
• FMLA, ADAAA and Workers’ Compensation: The Fearsome Threesome
• Hostile Work Environment and Harassment Claim: What They Are and How to Prevent Them…Before It’s Too Late
• The Discrimination Onslaught: How Not to Get Sued for $500,000