Employment & Business Counsel for Companies and Executives
From day-to-day workplace counseling to executive negotiations and high-stakes disputes, Lewis Law advises companies, founders, executives, and professionals across the employment relationship. The firm also counsels growing businesses on contracts, formation, and other operational legal needs, with flexible support available for discrete projects and ongoing outside-counsel relationships.
Employment Agreements & Separations
Offer letters, employment agreements, and consultant and contractor agreements. Separation and severance agreements, reductions in force, and WARN Act compliance.
Restrictive Covenants & Trade Secrets
Non-compete, non-solicitation, confidentiality, and invention assignment agreements, drafted for the states where you have employees. Enforcement and defense when a departure goes wrong.
Handbooks, Policies & Compliance
Employee handbooks and state- and locality-specific addenda, along with leave, accommodation, and other workplace policies. Wage-and-hour compliance audits covering classification, timekeeping, overtime, and pay practices.
Workplace Counseling & Investigations
Day-to-day guidance on hiring, discipline, performance management, accommodations, leave, and terminations. Workplace investigations involving harassment, discrimination, retaliation, executive misconduct, and other sensitive employee concerns.
Employment Litigation & Disputes
Defense of discrimination, retaliation, and wage-and-hour claims in court, in arbitration, and before the EEOC and state agencies. Demand letters, agency charges, and mediation.
Executive Representation
Offer, employment, and separation agreements reviewed and negotiated for executives and senior professionals, including non-compete and non-solicitation obligations in connection with a new role or departure.
Business & Commercial
Entity formation and operating agreements, commercial contracts, and the business disputes that come with running a company.
Selected matters are described on the About page.
View Representative ExperienceFractional Counsel
Ongoing employment counsel under an agreed monthly scope and fee, for companies that need legal support without an in-house hire.
Project Engagements
A handbook, an agreement, an investigation, or a single dispute, scoped before the work starts.
Overflow for In-House Teams
Additional capacity for in-house legal teams handling employment questions, projects, and disputes.
Founders & Early-Stage Companies
First hires, employee and contractor classification, offer letters, entity formation, and the policies worth putting in place before the headcount grows.
Growth-Stage Companies
Multistate handbooks, executive hiring, restrictive covenants, reductions in force, and the compliance that arrives with a bigger team.
In-House Legal & HR Teams
Overflow support, workplace investigations, and second opinions on sensitive employment matters.
Executives & Senior Professionals
Offer letters, employment agreements, separations, and non-competes at the turning points of a career.