Employment Litigation & Counseling

Silverman Thompson attorneys have provided sound, practical, and timely advice on a range of employment issues for years to:

• Employers who may be the target of baseless litigation or are seeking to enforce their contractual rights
• Executives and other high-level employees to recover withheld compensation or otherwise negotiate new positions or departures from old positions
• Employees who have been the victims of discrimination or unfair or unreasonable employment practices
• Employers who seek to defend claims brought against them under federal or state anti-discrimination laws
  

We prefer counseling and alternatives to litigation because, often, employment-related issues are simply business transactions gone awry, but we are well-heeled courtroom advocates who prepare every case for trial and relish the opportunity to present our client’s case to judge and jury.

Our lawyers have deep familiarity with federal and state wage and hour laws, discrimination laws, and other employment-related law and, in particular, the shifting burdens and procedural requirements associated with federal discrimination laws, having prosecuted and defended numerous employment actions in federal and state courts over the years.

We have successfully obtained or defended against TROs and preliminary injunctions in federal and state court in employment-related matters on many occasions and recognize how important that success can be for employment matter.

Over the past decade, we have increasingly been asked to defend putative wage and hour class action matters, both in Maryland and in California’s federal and state courts, as well as complex litigation involving restrictive covenants. To date, we have enjoyed great success in these matters.  

On the counseling and transaction side, we have developed employee handbooks and negotiated non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, and severance packages. We also counsel employers facing potential liability as the result of their employees’ actions or omissions.

We have particular expertise in the lending industry, having served as outside general counsel to numerous regional lending companies on employment issues for over a decade.

For additional information on Silverman Thompson’s labor and employment practice, please contact Partner Bill Sinclair at 410.385.9116 or at bsinclair@silvermanthompson.com.

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