Parker Thoeni

Practice Areas

Employment Law

Leaves of Absence/Reasonable Accommodation

Traditional Labor Relations

Wage and Hour

Workplace Investigations and Organizational Assessments

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

Maryland State Bar Association

Hearing Committee for the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility

Board of the Conflict Resolution Center of Baltimore County

Publications

Co-author, Chambers Global Practice Guide – Employment – U.S. Trends and Developments and Lexology’s Employment: North America Digital Edition - USA – Maryland.

Personal

American University Washington College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2008; Franklin and Marshall College, B.A., 2005

Career

VCF

Parker Thoeni represents management in employment litigation in federal and state courts and in administrative proceedings before federal, state, and local administrative bodies. He also provides advice and counsel to employers regarding personnel matters. Parker represents employers in various industries, including healthcare, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, construction, professional services, and food services.

Parker litigates a broad range of labor and employment disputes, focusing on litigation involving employee mobility (common law tortious interference and non-competition and non-solicitation agreements), confidentiality agreements, and trade secrets, as well as wage and hour class and collective actions.

Parker advises clients on all aspects of the employment relationship, including reasonable accommodations, employee leave, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, restrictive covenants, executive employment agreements, misappropriation of confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information, and development of personnel policies.