Employment

We represent employees.

Our employment practice represents individuals against the organizations that employ them. Workers facing harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. Executives and professionals navigating investigations, separations, and disputes where a career and a reputation are on the line.

Who We Represent

  • Employees facing sexual harassment or a hostile work environment

  • Workers denied a reasonable accommodation, or retaliated against for requesting one

  • Employees terminated after reporting misconduct, taking leave, or raising a complaint

  • Executives, partners, and professionals facing separation, severance negotiation, or an internal investigation where they are the subject

  • Workers owed unpaid wages or overtime, or misclassified as exempt or as independent contractors

  • Employees bound by non-competes and restrictive covenants that limit where they can work next

What We Handle:

  • Sexual harassment and hostile work environment claims

  • Discrimination and retaliation claims under Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA, Section 1981, and Georgia law

  • Failure to accommodate under the ADA, and FMLA interference and retaliation

  • Wrongful and retaliatory termination

  • Whistleblower and protected activity claims

  • EEOC and DOL charges, from intake through right to sue

  • Unpaid wages, overtime, and misclassification under the FLSA

  • Severance and separation agreement review and negotiation

  • Representation of employees who are the subject of a workplace investigation

  • Defending employees against non-compete, non-solicit, and trade secret claims

Why Clients Hire Us for Employment Work

Most employment matters never become lawsuits. The ones that do almost always follow a pattern: an early signal that was missed, minimized, or handled in isolation. As a prosecutor, I learned how institutions bury those signals. On the other side of these cases, I learned exactly how employers build a defense, what their counsel will argue, and where the record is weaker than it looks. That is what our clients get now. Not a guess at what the company will do, but knowledge of it.