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Managing organizational assets includes what is generally your largest asset — your workforce. Schwartz Kelly, LLC provides the tools and services you need to lead your business and employees to new levels of productivity and profitability.
Plan Ahead to Avoid Obstacles
Schwartz Kelly, LLC works with executives, corporate counsel, and human resources to develop employee practices and policies that will protect your business from risk and keep you on the path toward your business goals. Our attorneys will work one-on-one to:
- Ensure compliance with national and state employment laws
- Protect confidential information, assets and key personnel
- Implement strategies for attracting and retaining talented employees
Know the Terrain
Our attorneys have experience across a wide range of industries, including professional services, manufacturing, construction, banking, healthcare, and software development. We understand the industry-specific issues affecting your business, and customize our services accordingly:
- Non-compete and confidentiality agreements
- Strategies to protect intangible assets
- Audits of employment practices
- Employment contracts
- Termination disputes
- Employee handbooks
- Compensation issues
- Policies and practices relating to employee leaves
- Manager and employee training on compliance issues, diversity, anti-harassment and discrimination
- Leadership and ethical decision-making training
- Performance evaluation processes
- Reductions in force or organizational restructuring
Litigation is sometimes unavoidable. Schwartz Kelly, LLC will be there to defend any claim involving you or your business, including wrongful discharge, discrimination or harassment, violation of federal or state employment laws, breach of contract, public accommodations, or public policy claims. And when it comes to protecting your assets, we have extensive experience in restrictive covenants or protection of trade secrets, customers or key employees.
Representative Matters
Health Care Systems United States District Court, District of New Jersey. We represented a hospital against claims for failure to accommodate a disabled patient.
Professional Services We have successfully negotiated settlements between our clients and their competitors involving restrictive covenants and solicitation of customers.
Manufacturer We developed strategies with agreements to protect confidential and proprietary information and reduce unfair trade practices by competitors.
General Surgical Practice We represented a surgeon in defense of claims that he violated New Jersey’s whistle blower statute. We tried the case to a unanimous no cause jury verdict after six days of trial and two hours of jury deliberation.
Pharmacy United States District Court, District of New Jersey. We represented a pharmacy and its owners in a complex fraud, trade secret, employee piracy, and RICO case.
Staffing Agency Department of Labor and Workforce Development. In addition to on-going counseling, we successfully represented the employer before the Wage and Hour Division against claims of unpaid commissions, receiving a No Cause Determination.
Trades and Services Contractor We created the employer’s human resource function with guidelines and implementing forms for hiring, employee discipline and performance evaluation, safety, workers compensation, fleet vehicles, substance abuse, termination, confidentiality, and more for a contractor whose growth had expanded beyond its internal human resources capacity.