Employment Law

Employment laws can raise some of the most troublesome issues for your business. McLane's Employment Law Group has the expertise and commitment to help you manage your workplace. Our risk management approach and client-focused responsiveness help you to ensure compliance with state and federal laws and prevent personnel problems before they arise. When lawsuits occur, our experienced employment litigators bring a wealth of knowledge and skills to defend your organization, resolving disputes successfully and within your budget.

Partnerships with our Clients
Each client's needs are unique. We are committed to knowing your organization and delivering services that fit your specialized business strategy and financial objectives. Through experience-based counseling and clear communication, we develop lasting partnerships with our clients. We are your personnel partners™.

Managing Workplace Issues
We partner with our clients to design and implement problem-avoidance measures tailored to each client's business needs. The techniques we use include focused workplace audits, company-specific policy development and maintenance, strategic workforce training, timely workplace investigations, targeted employment agreements, and day-to-day responsive consultation services. Our risk management approach also minimizes your legal costs by addressing critical and sensitive personnel matters promptly and effectively. In short, we represent your organization by understanding your workforce and business, implementing measures to avoid problems, and promptly resolving issues that do arise.

Our experienced employment lawyers handle complicated employment law compliance matters for a wide variety of manufacturing, service, educational and technology businesses. We have substantial experience with discrimination, harassment, disability, family and medical leave, military leave, drug testing, federal and state regulatory compliance, OSHA, wage and hour, reductions in force, immigration, non-compete and employment agreements ERISA, COBRA, data security, records management, and other benefits and personnel-related laws.

No matter what your business, our goal is to protect your organization through proactive risk management counseling.  We also utilize the diversity of talent from other departments in the firm to offer comprehensive representation for businesses.

Defending your Company
Employment lawsuits happen no matter how vigilantly you manage risk. Our team has both the depth and breadth to resolve these disputes. McLane has one of the largest and most sophisticated business litigation practices in northern New England. Our firm has the distinction of being selected as the best litigation group in New Hampshire by the international Chambers publication. We are unique in our ability to provide services in many complex areas of employment litigation throughout New England.

Experience is what we offer you. Our attorneys already possess the know-how necessary to handle the problem, whether a lawsuit involves discrimination, harassment, wage and hour, wrongful termination, ERISA, non-competition and employment agreements, or other workplace issues. Our strengths include the energy and drive we bring to your case, while at the same time providing you with core management skills, a mature perspective on employment litigation and advice that comes only from experience in trial. The Employment Law Group regularly participates in seminars and trainings to management, in-house counsel, and human resource individuals. Our philosophy is to first understand your business, then add our expertise and perspective specific to complex employment litigation, and finally bring enthusiastic dedication to all litigation matters. Our trial attorneys are also very experienced in mediation, arbitration and related alternative dispute resolutions.

We are a leading firm in handling electronic discovery using trial presentation software, and sophisticated core management techniques.

Employment Law Services

For further information, contact one of our Employment Law Attorneys at (603) 625-6464 or (781) 904-2700.

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