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Employment
We represent both employers and employees on everything involving the workplace. We can assist in preparing contracts and employment manuals, complying with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and litigating a broad range of employment disputes.
ELM lawyers who practice employment law:
Representative matters:
- We represent numerous profit and nonprofit entities and act as their general counsel involving a wide variety of areas, including employment matters. This involves providing preventative work and also zealously representing our clients when claims are brought against them. We have prepared and revised numerous employment handbooks and employment policies. We also assist our clients in the negotiations and preparation of employment agreements; severance agreements; noncompetition, nonsolicitation, and nondisclosure agreements. We represent our clients in connection with government investigations and employment disputes.
- We represented a major international relief and development organization in defending against a defamation lawsuit brought by a former employee in the Republic of Georgia. We participated in various legal proceedings with local counsel in Tbilisi, Georgia, and were successful in getting the Georgian court to set aside a million dollar default judgment. We then participated in the trial which resulted in a complete victory for and exoneration of our client. We also successfully persuaded the client organization's insurance carrier to pay for our fees, including the travel costs attendant to several trips to the Republic of Georgia, so that the client had minimal out of pocket expenses in defending what would otherwise have been a very expensive lawsuit.
- Our client, a large private school, learned that one of its employees engaged in inappropriate sexual relations with a student. We assisted the school in investigating the incident including interviewing students, parents and employees. The school was able to avoided a lawsuit over the incident. We also revised the school's student, parent, and employee policies to guard against future incidents.
- Our client was sued for wrongful termination by a disgruntled employee. The employee had engaged in misconduct in the workplace and was not competent for her position. We defended the employer and mounted an offensive strategy in the lawsuit. Facing a threatened motion to dismiss, the employee dismissed her lawsuit and received nothing in damages.
- Our client, a software engineer, was the first employee of a start-up company that managed databases in the commercial mail and voting industries. He applied his technical expertise during long hours and under stressful conditions because his employer promised to share the sale proceeds if the company ever made it big enough to attract a large purchaser. But when the big sale finally occurred, the employer chose to keep all the money to himself. We sued for breach of the employer's promises. After a week-long trial, a jury agreed that our client was wronged and awarded him $500,000.
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