We assist employers in a broad range of both employment-related counseling and contested claims involving discrimination and harassment, federal and state wage and hour matters, employment contracts and compensation, terminations, workforce reductions, employee leaves and workplace safety, including OSHA. Our employment lawyers also provide employer training and perform workplace investigations.

Practice Focus

• Workplace investigations and defense of employment discrimination, wrongful termination, wage and hour, unemployment, OSHA, and libel and privacy claims
• Intellectual property and unfair competition issues as they arise in the employment context, including non-competition issues and non-solicitation agreements
• Reductions in workforce, group layoffs and separation agreements, employment contracts, handbooks and policies, employee training and employee compensation
• Day-to-day human resource counseling relating to hiring, employee evaluations, FMLA and other employee leaves, employee discipline, workplace violence, layoffs and terminations

Representative Matters

• Successfully represented employers in NH Department of Labor wage claims and audits
• For employer, negotiated involuntary separation of high-level managers
• Counseled community hospital in creating employment contracts for associated health care providers
• Successfully defended numerous discrimination claims in New Hampshire, Virginia, Connecticut and before the EEOC
• Resolved OSHA litigation without monetary payment
• Obtained summary judgment for national company in discrimination case in federal court
• Working with firm's Government Relations Practice, lobbied successfully for changes to New Hampshire's employment laws and administrative regulations

Business and Industry Sectors Represented

• Heavy and light manufacturing national and regional retailers, including supermarkets, rent to own, drug stores, office supply, video rental, specialty stores and catalogs
• National and local media education: public and private universities; private and secondary schools
• Healthcare: physician office practices, hospitals and affiliated organizations
• Technology
• Automobile and motorcycle dealerships, transportation
• Software
• Staffing agencies
• Financial services and insurance
• Charitable and non-profit organizations
• Hotel and hospitality, and local restaurants for national chains
• Arts (dance and music)

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