After the Federal Trade Commission’s proposal earlier this year to eradicate most noncompetition agreements, the National Labor Relations Board has doubled down on efforts to eliminate these restrictive covenants. For years, Eric has counseled clients on using compliant noncompetition agreements and other effective complements and alternatives, such as non-solicitation agreements and nondisclosure agreements, to protect trade secrets and other confidential information. Eric has further established himself as a zealous advocate in the courtroom, whether to enforce or defend restrictive covenant litigation.

On other human resources compliance matters, Eric offers day-to-day employment counseling, workplace/wage-and-hour audits and investigations, and other prophylactic measures to keep your workplace working while you focus on running your business.

For example, while the COVID-19 pandemic may be waning, companies continue to constantly turn to Eric (at all hours of the day) to resolve accommodation, leave-of-absence, remote work, and other issues magnified by this once-in-a-lifetime workplace disruption.

When training is at the top of most employers’ lists, they also regularly contact Eric for help. Eric has testified before 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 five 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, and will return to present in 2023. Eric is also a frequent presenter on the local and national HR circuit, including the SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition.

Contact me if you’d like more information about booking Eric to conduct bespoke training for your workforce.

Eric’s multi-faceted practice involves helping parties get to “yes” through alternative dispute resolution.

For over a decade, Eric has mediated 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.

Additionally, Eric has designed a continuing legal education program to improve attorneys’ performance when representing their clients at employment law mediations. Contact Eric if you’d like to book a presentation on this training module.

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. In 2021, he was the employment partner on a global multi-practice team that facilitated 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 nuance to facilitate an educated business decision.

Unfortunately, employment can end abruptly. Often it’s not amicable. 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 sitting in Easton, PA. Eric has also prevailed in labor grievance arbitration.

In case you are wondering, Eric does sleep. Just not much.