Practice Leader: Deborah P. Kelly
Dickstein Shapiro’s Employment Practice provides practical answers to business questions and defends employers—including national law firms, Wall Street firms, and multistate and international companies—in all aspects of employment law.
Dickstein Shapiro attorneys represent clients on employment issues including sensitive internal investigations, wage-hour compliance and litigation, hiring procedures, employment contracts, immigration, restrictive covenants, policy manuals, personnel decisions, compliance with Executive Order 11246 and its affirmative action requirements, and compliance with all relevant federal statutes. The firm also devotes itself to helping companies keep up with changing federal and state rules and regulations and conducts trainings, seminars, and audits of current personnel policies in efforts to prevent litigation and minimize liability, should litigation ensue.
To help multistate employers monitor and comply with ever-changing state and federal employment laws and regulations, Dickstein Shapiro has developed PolicyPartner® services, which provide clients with a one-stop, web-enabled desktop portal for personnel matters and employment law, tailored to each company’s policies and procedures. PolicyPartner® helps human resources and employment law departments to be more efficient and cost-effective and aids multistate companies in keeping their divisions in compliance with myriad state and federal laws. Dickstein Shapiro regularly updates the PolicyPartner® service portal to ensure client policies are in compliance with applicable laws. In addition, firm attorneys prevent employment claims by conducting seminars for management and other employees in all areas of Equal Employment Opportunity compliance, from interviewing applicants and structuring annual performance reviews to documenting performance deficiencies and handling termination through drafting severance and release agreements.