General Areas of My Employment Law Practice: 

Wrongful Termination; Discrimination (based on age, disability, cancer condition, use of medical leave, pregnancy, race, national origin, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, sexual harassment); Whistleblower Retaliation (for complaints to the employer or government agency); Wage and Hour Violations, including potential class actions; Privacy Violations, Assaults and Battery, Defamation, Fraud by Employer in Representing Terms of Employment; Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress.   

I provide a full range of professional services to employees:

• I review the sufficiency and fairness of proposed severance agreements at termination. I advise whether to reject the proposed severvance, and I will negotiate a more favorable severance in view of the legal issues identified for release and waiver. 

• I counsel employees pre-litigation to determine the legal basis of possible action against their employer for wrongful termination against their employer.  I provide a dispassionate, objective assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of a potential case, and I recommend litigation only in those cases having substantial merit.   
  
• I design a strategy of the case based on the facts and likely best explanation for why events occurred as they did leading to a job loss. 

• I listen carefully to how the job loss has affected you, and try to understand why this case is important to you personally.  I try to tell YOUR story.

• After overviewing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks of the case, I listen to your objectives and goals, and I share with you the practical realities of what can be obtained.  I do not exaggerate or understate the value of your case.  Good cases justify full commitment of both attorney and client. 

• I continuously involve you in the progress of the case, and continuously provide updated re-evaluations of the value of the case as it progresses through litigation/negotiation.

• I explain the process, and prepare you for it.  I do my best to avoid surprises, and reduce your stress so that your presentation is the best possible.

• I stay current in employment law developments, and especially cases that bear on your particular case.  I explain the law to you without technical jargon, or unneeded detail.

• I review employment agreements, and will assist in drafting employment agreements.

• I advise employees about restrictions on future employment stated by confidentiality and trade secret agreements.  I will defend employees who are threatened by injunctive actions by their former employers for alleged breach of trade secret obligations. 

• I will counsel employees on best responses to proposed employer disciplinary action.

• I will evaluate your case for settlement at various stages, make recommendations, and negotate your case to resolution.

• If the case merits, I will try your case through trial and appeal.