Profile
One of 200 lawyers to be recognized by Human Resource Executive magazine as the Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys, John counsels and represents employers on labor and employment issues helping them achieve and maintain legal compliance, while improving employee engagement and workplace productivity.
With years of experience advising credit unions, banks and other financial institutions, John provides his clients practical, real-world advice, mindful of the need to balance the legal “ideal” with a client’s operational reality. He focuses on:
- Preventative counseling concerning compliance with federal and state employment laws, including wage and hour, EEO, leaves and other reasonable accommodation concerns, and corrective actions and terminations
- Administrative proceedings before the EEOC, Division of Human Rights, NLRB, and federal and state departments of labor
- Training for executives, board members, supervisors and employees on a wide variety of topics including sexual and other workplace harassment, wage and hour compliance, performance management, progressive discipline and terminations, recruiting, hiring and retention, reasonable accommodations, drug and alcohol concerns and other ADA and FMLA issues, social media, technology and privacy
- Personnel policies and procedures and employee handbooks
- Workplace investigations relating to discrimination, harassment, retaliation, ethics violations and other workplace misconduct
- Contracts/agreements including employment agreements, retention agreements, executive contracts, confidentiality, nonsolicitation and noncompetition agreements, and severance agreements
- Business transitions, such as mergers, acquisitions and reductions in force
