Employment Law

Our attorneys have defended employers in gender, age, race, and disability discrimination cases brought under both federal and state laws, and before federal courts, state courts and administrative agencies. Our attorneys have also successfully defended claims through defense verdicts and affirmance on appeal, and have secured settlements for amounts less than the cost of defense. We have litigated wage payment and collection claims and defended several wage and hour audits conducted by the Department of Labor. We have secured injunctions enforcing restrictive covenants and winning money damages from our clients' competitors, and have successfully prevented their enforcement, as well.

We counsel employers on employee terminations, disciplinary actions, substance abuse policies, wage and hour compliance, and benefits. We have conducted seminars on sexual harassment and provided advice on employee handbooks and personnel policy manuals. We regularly advise employers on compliance with Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, and WARN Act. We have also handled traditional labor-management and workplace health/safety matters. Our employment law clients include employers in manufacturing, retail, services, automotive, distribution, telecommunications, education and health care businesses.

We also represent executives in a broad range of industries in their employment severance disputes, and have repeatedly negotiated valuable severance agreements for our clients without resorting to litigation. When litigation was required, we have secured favorable results. In 1998, we obtained a seven-figure settlement for a former drug company executive. In 1999, we served as co-counsel to an executive who won a jury award of $10.5 million for a fraud-in-hiring claim, and we won an arbitration award of over $800,000 for a publishing executive following his employment termination and undervaluation by his employer of his phantom stock.