The number of potential legal problems involving employment seems to just continue rising. Employers and employees alike are finding themselves involved in an escalating number of disputes relating to non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, unfair competition, trade secret appropriation, and breach of fiduciary duty. There are still a host of problems involving racial, disability, religious and gender discrimination. More and more employers are finding it important to maintain employment handbooks. And employees and independent contractors alike are finding it difficult to find work without agreeing to sometimes onerous contracts that prohibit where they will be able to work, and under what circumstances, should they ever leave their current employer.
All of this paper generates a lot of questions, which the attorneys at Donner & Company are ready to help answer. We work with our clients both to develop working agreements at the outset and to ensure their interests are pursued in whatever disputes arise when their working relationships begin breaking down. We've represented the interests of employers, employees, independent contractors, unions, and benefit plans, and have therefore come to appreciate the range of interests that come to bear in such cases -- as well as the extent to which those interests are so often more consistent wth each other than is sometimes first expected.
Some cases require a measured approach; with focus on getting the parties together to look for a way to consider their mutual interests in untangling a web of problems in which they may have inadvertently found themselves. Others need the concerted effort of emergency injunctive relief, an active and focused investigation, and careful attention to the relationship between law and business. In any case, however, our clients depend upon us to help them craft an approach and strategy that suits the economic, personal and professional interests of their business.
