About
Provided by Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP
HSW has a first-tier national employment practice, and is best known for representing individual founders, partners, C-suite executives, top producers, and practice leaders. In addition, the firm has a meaningful roster of company clients. Four of our Employment Partners are Chambers ranked.
Our practice includes litigation and arbitration, negotiation of employment agreements and separations, discreetly handling internal investigations, co-founder disputes, restrictive covenant disputes, and employment counseling. HSW is also known for its high-profile successes in FINRA arbitrations, having secured two of the six largest-ever FINRA awards.
We advise clients on hundreds of millions of dollars of agreements, separations and disputes annually, and represent individuals, teams and employers across a broad range of industries (including financial services, technology, real estate, media, health, travel, fashion, law, and entertainment).
Our Employment Practice has several unique strengths:
- a top-tier trial practice
- a premier combination of legal sophistication and industry knowledge in the financial services sector, and with respect to advising start-up founders
- synergy with our Chambers Ranked White Collar group, enabling us to effectively represent clients in matters where employment disputes and internal, regulatory or criminal investigations run parallel
- an in-house clinical forensic psychologist to assist our clients in preparing for interviews, negotiations and trial
