Bespoke Employment Counseling

This year, federal agencies are laser-focused on eliminating non-competition agreements. However, Eric has proactively advised employer clients on other effective restrictive covenants to protect their businesses and goodwill. Eric has further established himself as a zealous advocate in the courtroom, whether to enforce or defend restrictive covenant litigation.

On other workplace matters, Eric offers prophylactic solutions through his day-to-day employment counseling, thoughtful policies and procedures, and on-demand workplace investigations.

Remote work issues may confound some employers, but not Eric’s. Employers, especially those transitioning employees back to the office, have access to Eric (often at all hours) to provide employee accommodations that facilitate a return to the workplace.

Next-Level Employee/Supervisor Training

When training is at the top of most employers’ lists, they contact Eric for help. Eric has testified before the Philadelphia City Council and the Pennsylvania House Labor and Industry Committee to address harassment and sexual misconduct in the workplace. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has approved Eric to train your workforce from rank-and-file to the C-Suite. He has presented six times at the EEOC’s EXCEL conference, the premier national training conference for federal and private sector EEO managers, supervisors, practitioners, HR professionals, attorneys, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) specialists. Eric is also a frequent local and national HR circuit presenter, including the SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition.

Contact Eric if you’d like more information about booking him to train for your workforce.

Alternative Dispute Resolution (Mediation and Arbitration)

Eric serves as an arbitrator for employment law disputes. Additionally, Eric mediates nothing but employment law matters as a go-to neutral for both employee-rights and management-side attorneys to resolve disputes for their clients. Eric is a volunteer mediator for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a court-appointed mediator in the federal court system. However, Eric is ready, willing, and able to resolve matters for parties that contact him directly. You can download a copy of Eric’s mediator CV by clicking here.

Serving the C-Suite

Eric helps corporations and C-Suite Executives with mergers, acquisitions, onboarding, and offboarding.

When companies are bought and sold, Eric advises them on all employment facets of the deal, like when he was the lead employment partner on a global multi-practice team facilitating the $250 Million sale of PFSweb’s LiveArea business to Merkle.

Eric also applies his M&A know-how to negotiate sophisticated employment agreements for senior leaders. Eric bargains hard and carefully explains to clients the substantive “legalese” and other nuances to facilitate an educated business decision.

Unfortunately, employment can end abruptly. Often, it’s not amicable, and sometimes, the termination reasons seem pretextual. Eric leverages his experience representing employers and resolving employment disputes to help provide a longer financial runway for individuals after employment ends. His creative fee agreements with clients offer peace of mind during this stressful time and help them maximize their return on their investment in Eric.

But can Eric litigate, too? Is water wet?

Eric excels in the courtroom as a zealous advocate for businesses of all sizes. Eric is a trial-tested, experienced litigator representing companies of all sizes in a veritable alphabet soup of employment law claims, such as the ADA, ADEA, CEPA, FMLA, FLSA, NJLAD, PHRA, Title VII, and USERRA. Among other successes, Eric obtained the first defense verdict in over a decade (in an employment case or otherwise) from a federal civil jury in Easton, PA. Eric has also prevailed in labor grievance arbitration.

In case you are wondering, Eric does sleep.

Just not much.