With one of the largest and most sophisticated employment practices in the West, Davis Wright Tremaine partners with its clients to meet the challenges of managing employees. We understand that an organization must skillfully address harassment complaints, ensure equal employment opportunity, implement safety compliance, handle family and medical leaves, manage performance and terminations, and train managers to deal with all of this, while staying on top of the law’s changes.
We help employers implement the necessary human resources practices and decisions to keep their organizations moving forward and minimize risk and distraction. We ensure legal compliance, help implement performance improvement plans and minimize liability with terminations. We advise employers through corporate restructuring and reductions in force, including WARN Act compliance. We advise on wage and hour issues, disability accommodation and handbook development. We manage workplace investigations and serve as outside investigators. We help employers develop effective corporate diversity programs.
We also offer customized training programs for our clients, providing specific and customized education to your internal staff. These programs are:
- Highly interactive
- Conducted by experienced facilitators
- Based on legal expertise
- Tailored to your operations policies, work culture and time constraints
We supplement our counsel and training programs with seminars, electronic alerts on emerging issues and developments, and employment law deskbooks for California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
Beyond our team’s depth and experience, clients appreciate our work style. Rather than simply providing generic counsel, we get to know our clients’ business, culture and objectives. We then give them straightforward, practical advice to help them make well-informed decisions that manage risk appropriately and help achieve their goals.
We look for opportunities to use alternative fee arrangements to align incentives with our clients or provide greater cost certainty. Based on our clients’ needs and goals, we can offer retainer packages and blended rates for counseling and training programs. |