Question: Our company uses non-compete and non-solicit agreements that bar former employees from having contact with any client of our company after they leave. One former employee who recently left is now claiming the agreement is invalid because it is...
Question: We have our electronic handbook and arbitration agreement online, and all employees sign both electronically. I saw a news blurb that a California court last year refused to enforce an arbitration agreement that was electronically signed. Can’t we use...
Question: We try and settle threatened lawsuits with lump sum settlements which include wages, tort damages, reimbursement of medical costs and attorneys’ fees. We pay the lump sum to the employees’ attorneys (Trust fund), issue a 1099 to the employee...
Question: I am the general counsel of a corporation in the medical device industry. Our company has its corporate headquarters in Minnesota, but we are incorporated in Delaware and have operations in 30 of the 50 states. Recently, I received...
Question: Our company does business in all 50 states. To the greatest extent possible, we like to have uniform employment policies for our employees, wherever they may be located. As you know, this goal is frustrated somewhat by the differences...
Question: We recently terminated one of our employees. To eliminate the possibility of future litigation with him, we offered him a severance package, conditioned on his execution of a General Release. He now has asked us to make the release,...
Question: Our company is considering terminating a C-level executive for cause pursuant to a provision in his employment agreement. I mentioned this to a friend of mine who is an attorney and she said the company will be obligated to...
Question: One of our employees recently claimed that he is entitled to a reasonable accommodation of his physical disability (a serious back problem). We were unable to work out an accommodation for the employee (we probably did not do as...
Question: Our company’s headquarters is located in Seattle, Washington. We want to hire someone to start up our company’s new location in another state. Because of the competitiveness of our industry, we would like our new employee to sign a non-compete...
Question: An employee recently filed a Charge of Sex Discrimination against our company, with both the EEOC and the parallel state agency. Her lawyers want to depose our company’s CEO. This seems to be little more than a tactical ploy...
Jack SullivanJack is a Partner in Dorsey’s Labor & Employment group, where he focuses his practice on employment adv...
Nisha VermaNisha has delivered results for her clients with respect to all aspects of employment litigation, including com...
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Hannah GreenHannah is an associate in the Costa Mesa offic...
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Susan LorencSusan is a strategic labor and employment advisor...
Nick PappasNick litigates and counsels with respect to com...
Ketul PatelKetul advises employers on the full spectru...
