LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW

Our lawyers have comprehensive experience in employment law, employee benefits, restrictive covenants, and executive compensation. We advise both small and large employers and litigate a broad range of legal issues that touch upon the workplace. Our attorneys have involved in a wide variety of employment matters involving management counseling, contracts, consulting and training. We counsel our clients on employee hiring and firing issues, preparing and updating employee handbooks, preparing employment agreements, preparing agreements to protect confidential information and trade secrets, training client company management and other employees on sexual and other harassment, and advising clients (on wage and hour, overtime, exempt/non-exempt employee, and independent contractor/employee determination issues).

Our clients also receive expert advice and representation in connection with arbitration, litigation and administrative proceedings. We represent clients in litigation related to employment agreements, including restricted competition, restricted solicitation, confidential information, and trade secret obligations. We advise management regarding investigation of sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation claims. We represent a large docket of clients in EEOC and Texas Workforce Commission proceedings as well those in federal and state court litigation. Our lawyers also routinely counsel employers on a variety of preventive measures designed to avoid litigation of employment disputes.

We also advise executive and professional employees in complex matters involving employment contract negotiations; termination and severance circumstances; negotiating compensation and other benefits in connection with employment termination; and the complex issues surrounding discrimination, wrongful discharge and various other matters.

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