Employment & Labor Law

D&W Law represents individuals and companies concerning age, race, sex, and disability discrimination charges and prosecutes and defends discrimination charges with the U S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), the correlated state agencies, and in federal and state courts.

D&W Law routinely litigates cases arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

D&W Law also provides individuals and companies with advice and counseling on reduction in force and reorganization matters, as well as collective actions, wage and hour, overtime, and time shaving disputes under the FLSA, and hiring and discharge of personnel under federal, state, and city laws.

Additionally, D&W Law provides compliance trainings to employees and managers (e.g., dispute resolution, diversity and inclusion, and workplace discrimination), conducts in house harassment investigations, drafts and updates personnel policies and employment handbooks, and drafts and negotiates employee contracts and separation agreements.

Business law

D&W Law views our business clients as partners. You understand how to build the business of your dreams; we understand the law and its practical implications for your business, as well as what is needed in order to thrive in today’s complex and ever-changing economic and regulatory environment.

Our clients’ success is our top priority. We serve as trusted advisors — getting to know our clients, their businesses and goals, to proactively identify and resolve legal challenges and mitigate future risk.

We have broad-based experience counseling clients across the full range of business law services, including mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, real estate, financings, hiring, reductions in force, and other disciplines necessary for a full-service, multidisciplinary, approach to legal challenges.

Whether your company is a startup, a medium-sized business or a Fortune 500 company, D&W Law’s business attorneys provide creative and strategic solutions to help your business flourish.

Commercial Transactions Law

D&W Law provides legal services to assist our clients with developing their products and services, negotiate and draft contracts, protect their intellectual property, and achieve your business objectives.

We have experience and expertise in the technology, hospitality, trucking, construction, and medical sectors. Our services includes the development and negotiation of employment contracts (e.g., W-2 and/or 1099), operating agreements, contracts for sales, contracts for services, partnership agreements, and more!

From negotiations to final review, we understand that each stage of contract development is critical to our achievement of our clients’ business goals. Whether our clients desire business contracts, employment contracts, or individual agreements, we have the professional know-how and experience to help you effectively and efficiently close on your transactions. To us, the success of our clients’ business is our success.

Estate Planning

D&W Law crafts estate plans (e.g., wills, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, etc.) to protect our client’s assets from creditors, minimize federal and state estate tax, and maximize income tax opportunities available to our clients. Using sophisticated wealth transfer and preservation strategies, we help our clients maximize the enjoyment of our client’s property during their lifetime, while also facilitating appropriate lifetime gifting strategies and providing for an orderly and efficient transfer of property to beneficiaries upon your death.

Our services may include an estate and gift tax analysis including projections of potential estate tax savings achieved through specific planning strategies and an income tax and cash flow analysis in conjunction with proposed wealth transfer strategies.

Through the strategic use of irrevocable trusts, D&W Law can help protect your assets from financial abuse, lawsuits, divorce, spendthrift heirs, and other risks. Our wealth transfer planning professionals analyze federal and state laws to identify creative solutions that best address your wealth preservation and transfer goals.

Business/ Nonprofit consulting

D&W Law assists clients with the development, evaluation, and execution of their mission-driven goals through strategic consulting that centers on solution building. Our mission is to help for-profit and non-profit companies maximize their impact.

Whether devising policy-driven communications and engagement strategies, or working with an organization to restructure internal operations to align on their core values, D&W Law is committed to delivering excellent, cost-conscious client services that bring the objectives, goals, and dreams of our clients to fruition.

In our fast-evolving world, business leaders need to be nimble and have the ability to address serious problems with thoughtful solutions. We utilize our relationships and know-how to advance our clients interests and enhance their ability to meet the needs of the constituencies they serve.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

D&W Law’s professionals are well-equipped to handle contentious controversies that can negatively impact individual and business growth.

When commercial disputes arise, D&W Law’s cutting-edge approach to dispute resolution services provide a reliable means of resolving them as efficiently and economically as possible. We offer thoughtful and cost-conscious alternatives to litigation for resolving disputes of all types (e.g., employment, contract, community, family, business partner disputes, and more).

What’s more, our professionals are trained to serve as professional neutrals and are available to provide services to parties experiencing disputes that are available to anyone: from individuals, to small businesses, to private sector enterprises, to governmental entities.

Construction Litigation

D&W Law’s attorneys are experienced in handling construction defect lawsuits. We routinely assist client with obtaining the approved plans and other key development records from local municipalities and/or developers, identify and pursue all potentially responsible parties, engage in discovery involving hundreds of thousands of documents and scores of parties and witnesses, as well as extensive mediation, arbitration, and negotiation.

Whether a newly-constructed condominium and homeowners’ association or renovated and rehabilitated conversion, defects in the design and construction are common. Too often, community association boards spend substantial time, effort, and expense negotiating with developers to remedy such defects or are required to pay the association the necessary funds to make the necessary repairs. Our approach is to seek out meaningful resolution for such construction defect disputes, without incurring the significant time and expense of suing the developer and other responsible parties.

At D&W Law, our paramount goal is to resolve such claims without resorting to litigation. Even so, when litigation is unavoidable in order to protect our clients’ interests, we will act aggressively to safeguard our clients’ rights and pursue our clients’ claims through litigation. 

Commercial Litigation

D&W Law’s attorneys possess years of experience litigating and managing corporate disputes. Our attorneys have successfully handled fraud claims, partnership disputes, oppressed minority shareholder disputes, trade secret claims, contract claims, real estate claims, and myriad other complex and challenging commercial disputes. Our litigation clients include startup companies to large corporations, as well as privately held companies and nonprofit foundations. We also serve as outside general counsel for our clients that are closely-held or family-held businesses that have no in-house legal capabilities.

We offer a realistic assessment of the costs and benefits of litigation. We take pride in our ability to learn, understand, and be additive to our clients and their business, and we provide daily advice and counsel on how best to avoid the need for litigation before it arises.

Importantly, when the need for litigation arises, we work with our clients to take the steps necessary to protect them and their business. Our attorneys view our clients’ business as if it were our own and work closely with clients to ensure our litigation strategy is in alignment with our clients’ core values and desired outcomes.