Crisis Management

 

When clients experience an unexpected crisis, employee-related emergency or receive a sudden and unexpected employee complaint, our attorneys take immediate action to manage the situation. We help our clients minimize the consequences of a crisis, and implement preventative protocols.

This includes crafting a communication plan to effectively manage the situation, conducting an investigation, advising executives and boards of directors on how to deal with a crisis on an internal and external basis, and managing third party providers including public relations, private investigation, forensic IT and forensic accounting specialists. Our attorneys are seasoned in reacting to all types of crises. We have seen and dealt with various situations including surprise allegations by whistleblowers, employee fraud, the threat or occurrence of workplace violence, sexual harassment or assault and employee illness, injury or tragedy that affects the company and all of its employees.

Facing a crisis or an employee complaint? Please contact one of our attorneys.

Crisis Management

Representative Matters

Obtained temporary restraining order on behalf of a multistate wholesale insurance broker against its former employees and their new employer, a national retail and wholesale insurance brokerage firm.
Counseled employers across the U.S. in industries such as manufacturing, retail, and insurance brokerage regarding reductions in force, including preparing severance agreements and releases, Older Workers Benefits Protection Act disclosure statements, termination scripts, and other reduction-in-force documents. Also conducted adverse impact analyses, advised on federal and state WARN Act issues and prepared WARN notices.
Argued and won a temporary restraining order against 14 former employees of a U.K.-based publishing company, related to theft of trade secrets and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Obtained temporary restraining order against former brokers of a national insurance brokerage firm, restricting brokers from servicing and soliciting their former employer’s clients based on their restrictive covenants.
Conducted executive-level employee investigation for New York-based financial institution following internal claim of gender and age discrimination by a high-level executive; advised employer on effective course of executive and management training.