Employment Law

Clients look to us as trusted partners with the necessary understanding of their operations, needs and circumstances to offer pragmatic, real-time answers to their questions. We advise clients ranging from startups to multinational corporations in an array of industries, with a focus on financial services — particularly multinational banks, asset managers, hedge funds and private equity funds — technology and other high-growth companies, and media companies.

We assist clients with:

• Day-to-day employment issues, including hiring, termination, employee misconduct, medical leave, disability claims and disciplinary actions 
• Discrimination and harassment claims
• Compensation disputes and wage and hour claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act
• Employment contract negotiations and litigation
• Whistleblowing and retaliation claims
• Drafting of employment policies
• Noncompetition agreements and protecting confidential information
• Internal investigations
• Dispute resolution

In Paris, we also handle:

• Employment aspects of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and other corporate restructuring transactions, including transfer of employees, negotiation of in-house agreements and consultation of the staff representative bodies
• Social dialogue and collective negotiations (working time, remuneration, pensions and benefits, gender equality)
• Management of labor relations with staff representative bodies
• Relations with labor inspection authorities, including on health and safety matters
• Relations with social security bodies, including audits
• Executive termination and entrepreneurship
• Related pre-litigation and litigation cases

Our lawyers have an impressive record of success in resolving employment-related matters through negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation. We focus on providing the highest-quality work, and on delivering it cost-effectively with efficient staffing and extensive partner involvement at every stage.

Through our membership in the Employment Law Alliance (ELA) — a 50-state, 120-nation affiliation of the most highly regarded employment firms — we ensure premium service for clients throughout the U.S. and worldwide. Our firm is the exclusive ELA representative for New York City, Long Island, and Westchester and Rockland counties.