Goodwin

Partner

Meg Thering is a partner in Goodwin’s Employment practice. She provides clients with practical advice to help them hire, retain, incentivize, and promote the employees they need for their businesses to thrive.

Meg advises employers on all aspects of the employment relationship, including hiring, background checks, classification, wage and hour compliance, restrictive covenants, protection of trade secrets, global mobility, pay equity, retention, workplace investigations, leaves of absence, performance management, responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, terminations, and reductions in force. She works with clients to develop and create programs and processes that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. She also helps employers prevent - and respond to - harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims.

Meg drafts a multitude of employment-related documents, including offer letters, employment agreements, severance agreements, employee handbooks, global mobility policies, and policies relating to sabbaticals and leaves of absence. She also helps clients implement a variety of HR practices and processes, including those relating to background checks, contingent workers, classification of employees as exempt versus non-exempt, and performance management.

Meg regularly creates and provides engaging, interactive, and effective training to managers, HR professionals, and employees on preventing harassment and discrimination in the workplace, implicit bias, microaggressions, performance management, protecting trade secrets, and managing leaves of absence and reasonable accommodations.

She also counsels clients on employment law matters in corporate transactions, including via employment law due diligence and negotiating purchase agreements and related deal documents. In addition, Meg has experience litigating cases in state and federal courts, arbitral tribunals, and administrative agencies, as well as representing clients in government audits.

JD, 2008

Columbia University School of Law (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)

AB, History, 2005

Dartmouth College (cum laude)