As a licensed healthcare professional, you’re heavily regulated on a federal and state level. We can help you understand your legal obligations. We can also help you understand your employment agreements before (or after) you sign them and help with negotiating terms, including restrictive covenants like non-competition agreements. We can also represent you if you are named in a licensing Board investigation or complaint. Let us help you with legal so you can get back to doing the work you love.

How We Can Help

• Representing physicians and other healthcare professionals facing complaints and/or under investigation by their respective professional licensing boards
• Representing physicians and other healthcare professionals undergoing peer review proceedings or other internal hospital investigations
• Reviewing and negotiating employment agreements
• Negotiating release from non-competition clauses and other restrictive covenants
• Reviewing and negotiating severance agreements

Litigation isn’t always the best answer, but sometimes there is no way to avoid it. We actually like litigation and we do it well. Our number one goal is to get results for our clients. We work with a variety of individuals and organizations with disputes that end up in litigation or arbitration.

How We Can Help

• Contract disputes
• HOA and condominium disputes
• Construction disputes
• Property / boundary disputes

Just like all relationships, sometimes partnerships just don’t work out. Business disputes can be complicated, high stakes, and high emotion. We have experience working with stakeholders on understanding their rights and obligations with respect to a corporation and identifying the best path forward, including litigation. Our focus is on how we can obtain the best possible result for you and help you untangle complicated business and professional relationships. We’re ready to take your matter to trial if need be, but we also work with our clients on creative approaches to their business disputes and will often resolve matters before they go to trial.

How We Can Help

• Resolving partnership disputes
• Resolving shareholder disputes
• Litigating contract disputes
• Enforcement and defending non-compete matters

Whether your company has a human resources department or you are its human resources department, we’re here to help you stay in compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and weigh in on the day-to-day employment-related decisions that may put your company at risk. We have experience working with companies and organizations of all sizes representing a broad range of industries. We understand that business moves quickly and that may mean compliance has to work hard to catch up. We’re here whether you’re at the beginning of your journey as an employer or if you need help getting back on course and everything in between. We actually like challenges. Let us do the heavy lifting so that you can focus on what you do best – running a successful business.

How we can help:

• Drafting and advising on implementation of employment policies
• Drafting employee handbooks
• Advising clients on changes in employment laws
• Navigating compliance with all applicable federal, state and local employment laws
• Drafting employment agreements to protect employer interests, including non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements
• Advising on employee and executive departure, including drafting and negotiating severance agreements
• Employee and manager training
• Advising clients on conducting internal investigations
• Conducting workplace investigations
  

Employment laws were largely made to protect you as an employee, but that doesn’t always mean that they’re easy to understand or that they even make sense. We’re here to help whether it’s understanding your rights after a termination or layoff or requesting accommodation or family or medical leave. We can also review and provide advice on employment agreements before you take on a new role or when you’re exiting or transitioning into a new role. Whatever your specific employment issue, you don’t have to go through this alone. Let us help.

How We Can Help

• Reviewing and negotiating employment agreements
• Negotiating release from non-competition clauses and other restrictive covenants
• Reviewing and negotiating severance agreements
• Evaluating termination or other adverse employment actions and advising on potential employment claims
• Representing employees before state and federal courts and administrative agencies on discrimination and retaliation claims
• Representing individuals in litigation over non-competition clauses and other restrictive covenants

We are here to guide you through every stage of starting and running your business from formation through sale or merger. We provide advice and counsel on what type entity would be most beneficial to you and will prepare documents that will clearly outline the rights and responsibilities of your entity’s members or shareholders. As experienced litigators, we bring expertise to business consulting that will minimize confusion and conflicts down the line. Your focus is running a successful business – we can help protect your interests so you can focus on growth.

How We Can Help

• Incorporating and organizing of new business entities
• Drafting and amending governing documents
• Advising business clients as either sellers or buyers in acquisition, merger and disposition transactions
• Preparing and reviewing commercial leases