What are the most common employment law matters you handle?
- Disability or perceived disability discrimination
- Gender, sex, or sexual orientation discrimination
- Race or national origin discrimination
- Retaliation for complaining about unlawful, illegal, or discriminatory conduct.
- Severance agreements, non-competes, performance improvement per employee handbooks, and misclassified as exempt and salaried employees denied overtime.
Do you represent small business owners as well as discriminated employees?
Yes, as long as there is no conflict of interest. We would not undertake a matter if doing so requires opposing a party we represented in the past. For example, if we represented company Y in the past and you now have a potential claim against the same company, we would obtain conflict waivers from both sides and would be required to disclose the potential conflict.
Law firms representing both employees and small businesses always ask the name of your employer up front, confidentially, to make sure conflicts do not exist. If the potential for one exists, the conversation usually ends and no one is told that you ever reached out for potential representation.
Here’s a more comprehensive list of the types of employment law matters handled:
- Disability discrimination
- Sex or Gender or Sexual Identity discrimination
- Race or National Origin discrimination
- Severance and Non-compete agreements
- Unlawful Pay Practices, often misclassified as exempt and owed overtime claims
- Retaliation for Complaining about discriminatory or illegal conduct
- Wrongful Termination which means illegal or discriminatory termination
- LGBT issues related to workplaces
- Small Businesses needing strategic guidance on employment matters
- Litigation of the above in federal and state forums
- Mediation of the above
- Arbitration of the above
- Restrictive Covenants including the Defend Trade Secrets Act
- Coaching either Employees or Small Businesses trying to avoid litigation
- Amicable, Creative Resolution of contested employment disputes
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Helpful Links
Below are some legal resources explaining why protected classes mean so much.
https://www.eeoc.gov/harassment
https://dhr.ny.gov/new-workplace-discrimination-and-harassment-protections
https://www.nyc.gov/site/cchr/law/the-law.page