As an employee advocate while helping businesses understand the strategic benefits of helping their employees navigate the workplace, our employment practice can be divided into two parts. First, by focusing on replacing symptomatic responses with equity, inclusion and collaborative principles, we assist the employer to improve its workplace. From an employer’s perspective, we help create, review, and revise employee policies, guidelines, handbooks, non-compete agreements, severance agreements and executive compensation agreements.
We assist the employer with creating a workplace culture that supports employees and the employer’s business model. Being MD-110 Certified, Attorney Edwards can assist employers with performing workplace investigations. We consider ourselves an HR and legal partner as we leverage our business experience for the employee and the employer on employment issues to reduce workplace litigation, workplace risk and preservation of a company’s anti-retaliatory and anti-discriminatory culture.
Second, as it relates to employment law claims, we primarily represent the employee. From an individual, employee’s perspective, we represent individuals who have been wronged in the workplace whether because of their race, color, religion, gender, sex, national origin or other protected category that rises to the level of a violation of the law.