Labor & Employment: Mainly Plaintiffs

Sherin and Lodgen's Employment Law Department represents executives, professionals and business clients across a range of industries, providing counseling, negotiation, and complex litigation services.

Our transactional employment practice provides advice and representation to executive and professionals in matters such as:

• Executive and professional employment agreements
• Short- and long-term incentive arrangements including deferred and equity compensation
• Non-competition, non-solicitation and non-disclosure agreements
• Termination and severance protection, including “Good Cause” and “Good Reason” strategies
• Change in control provisions
• Post-employment consulting agreements
• Expatriation agreements

When disputes arise, clients turn to our litigation attorneys for assistance in high-level, complex litigation work. We have significant experience representing clients in state and federal courts and before state and federal administrative agencies in Massachusetts and other states including the MCAD and EEOC.

Our representation includes pursuing and defending clients in matters concerning:

• Non-competition and restrictive covenants
• Trade secret disputes
• Executive and professional termination disputes, including those in arbitration
• Disputes between partners and shareholders in closely held corporations
• Discrimination, sexual harassment, disability and leave issues, including those under Family Medical Leave Act
• Wrongful termination and retaliation claims
• Whistleblower disputes