Eric helps employers navigate high-stakes workplace decisions without clean answers – discipline, accommodations, investigations, executive exits, and wage-and-hour issues. His advice is practical, fast, and grounded in how cases actually get litigated, not how policies look on paper.

Clients call Eric when they need a fast answer, a defensible decision, and someone who will still be standing there if it turns into a lawsuit.

He is also the author of The Employer Handbook, an award-winning employment law blog read by thousands of HR professionals, in-house lawyers, and business leaders. He breaks down real cases and real workplace risks into plain-English takeaways employers can actually use.

Clients often find Eric through his writing. They stay because the advice sounds exactly like the blog.

Training That Doesn’t Put People to Sleep

Eric is an EEOC-approved trainer who works with everyone from frontline employees to the C-suite. His training is practical, current, and designed to change behavior – not just satisfy a compliance requirement.

He has testified before the Philadelphia City Council and the Pennsylvania House Labor Committee on workplace harassment issues and has presented multiple times at the EEOC’s national EXCEL Conference. His style is direct, realistic, and occasionally sarcastic — which keeps people actually paying attention.

Executive Counseling, Restrictive Covenants, and Business Transitions

Eric advises executives and employers on hiring, separation, severance, and leadership transitions – particularly where restrictive covenants, competitive risk, and post-employment disputes are in play.

He regularly drafts, negotiates, and enforces non-compete, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements, and just as often pokes holes in them – helping employers understand what will hold up, what won’t, and when enforcement makes business sense. His guidance is shaped by how these agreements are litigated in the real world, not just how they read on paper.

Eric performs employment due diligence on large M&A transactions, helping deal teams identify workforce-related risks, legacy compliance issues, and post-closing exposure early in the process. He has served as lead employment counsel on complex transactions, including the $250 million sale of PFSweb’s LiveArea business.

DEI, Workplace Culture, and Risk Management

Eric advises employers on DEI-related policies and workplace culture issues as part of broader employment risk management – not as slogans or standalone initiatives.

He helps employers draft, evaluate, and recalibrate DEI-related policies, training, and practices with an eye toward legal compliance, internal consistency, and defensibility.

The Modern Workplace: AI, Policies, and Guardrails

As AI and workplace technology move from interesting to unavoidable, Eric helps employers put clear rules in place before technology creates confusion or risk.

He works with employers to draft, update, and pressure-test workplace policies governing AI use, employee monitoring, data handling, and decision-making authority – alongside existing employment policies – with an eye toward consistency, accountability, and defensibility.

Mediator, Arbitrator, Problem-Solver

Eric serves as an arbitrator in employment law disputes and mediates exclusively employment law matters. He is a go-to neutral with real-world experience, including service as a mediator for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and as a court-appointed mediator in the federal court system. Parties rely on Eric for his efficiency, credibility, and ability to cut through posturing and get deals done. You can download Eric’s mediator CV here.

And Yes, He Litigates

When cases can’t be talked down, Eric defends employers in all flavors of employment litigation – ADA, ADEA, CEPA, FMLA, FLSA, NJLAD, PHRA, Title VII, USERRA, and more. He’s trial-tested and earned the first defense verdict in more than a decade from a federal civil jury in Easton, Pennsylvania – in any case, employment or otherwise.

Eric does sleep.

Just not much.