LIFE SCIENCES: CUTTING-EDGE EMPLOYMENT LAW COUNSEL
Life sciences organizations have special, critical concerns in the area of employment law. Like other employers, they must always be attentive to the myriad of statutory and administrative obligations that affect wages, benefits, hiring and firing. In addition, the lifeblood of a life sciences organization is its intellectual property and know-how. Therefore, employees’ knowledge of confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets must be protected from competitors to the fullest extent possible. Savvy life sciences employers rely on attorneys with focused expertise to provide assistance with their personnel policies and issues. The lawyers at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (DWT) can help you stay on the safe track in employment matters while you’re keeping your research and development on the fast track.
DWT’s employment attorneys have the knowledge and experience to handle your employment law and employee benefits issues–and to prevent others from developing. Members of our group are nationally recognized for their expertise in both day-to-day employment questions and the complex situations that arise in highly specialized work environments. We have a long and successful record of providing cost-effective counsel to a broad array of organizations: companies and institutions that are nearly as complex as the science they are advancing.
Our key services include:
Employment counseling
- Employee handbooks/personnel policiesand procedures
- Executive employment contracts
- FLSA/state wage and hour laws
- FMLA/compliance with state leave laws
- Managing problem employees
- OSHA/state occupational/safety & health compliance
- Performance reviews/counseling
- Prevention of discrimination/harassment claims
- State and federal labor standards requirements
- Supervisor/manager training
- Transitioning difficult employees
- Intellectual property risk management upon hiring or terminating employees
Intellectual property protection
- Confidentiality/proprietary rights agreements
- Customer/co-worker non-solicitation agreements
- Non-competition agreements
- Trade secret protection planning
Employment litigation
- Non-compete violation claims, misappropriation of trade secrets and employee raiding
- Defense against discrimination and harassment claims
- ERISA litigation
- Immigration appeals and litigation
- Wage and hour claims
- Alternative dispute resolution
Employee benefits
- 401(k) and retirement plans
- 403(b) plans
- 457(b) plans
- Cafeteria plans
- COBRA compliance
- Early retirement incentive programs
- Executive deferred compensation plans
- Executive long-term incentive plans
- Executive supplemental retirement plans
- HIPAA compliance
- Severance pay plans
- Stock-based plans, including ESOPs
- Tax and ERISA fiduciary advice
The DWT advantage
Davis Wright Tremaine is a full-service law firm with a dynamic life sciences practice. Our attorneys deliver comprehensive, integrated services, drawing on the firm’s multiple specialties as needed for our clients’ benefit. In addition to employment-related matters, our work includes intellectual property, patent, FDA, corporate/organizational finance and securities, research compliance, HIPAA, third-party coverage and reimbursement, real estate, taxation and corporate law.
We would be pleased to talk with you about your company or organization and how Davis Wright Tremaine can contribute to its scientific success—in employment matters and any other area of legal need.
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