Labor and employment
The group at ArentFox Schiff handles trade secret, employee mobility and non-compete cases. Boston-based Linda Jackson represents a diverse array of clients in employment and commercial disputes. Los Angeles-based Allan Anderson‘s key sectors include entertainment, internet, and tech. Washington DC-based Nicholas Nesgos is noted for his expertise in shareholder and partner-related employment disputes. Boston-based Lauren Schaefer has significant litigation experience. Chicago-based Matthew Prewitt and New York-based patent specialist Alexander Spiegler are also key practitioners.
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Lauren provides employment law counseling and advice to executives, managers, human resource professionals, and in-house counsel. She also litigates employment and labor disputes before administrative agencies and in court. Lauren serves as trusted advisor to her clients, providing advice and counseling on employment law issues tracking the life cycle of employees, including hiring, performance management, investigations, wage and hour compliance, navigating leaves of absence and the reasonable accommodation process, and reductions in force. She also drafts employee handbooks, employment agreements, including restrictive covenant agreements, and severance agreements. Her practice includes conducting harassment and discrimination prevention training for companies.
Lauren’s practice involves helping clients to identify and protect their valuable trade secrets, and designing, implementing, and maintaining trade secret policies and protections within the construct of the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, and related state laws.
Lauren is an advocate for clients involved in high-stakes litigation. She regularly represents individuals and businesses involved in a variety of commercial litigation in state and federal court, handling matters at all phases of the litigation process. Lauren also has experience in the areas of employment restrictive covenant and trade secrete disputes, wage and misclassification claims, including class actions, intellectual property litigation, and breach of contract claims.
Memberships
Massachusetts Bar Association
Labor and Employment Section Council Member (2021-current)
Boston Bar Association
Co-Chair of New Lawyers Section (2017-2019)
Co-Chair of IP Basics Committee (2019-2020)
Public Interest Leadership Program (2017-2018)
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Education
Boston University School of Law, JD, 2016
University of Texas, BBA, 2013
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Key clients
- Action Gypsum Supply, LP
- CACI, Inc.
- CDS Moving Equipment
- Congress Wealth Management LLC
- Huang Hui
- Optimal Facility Management Services
- Plibrico Company
- Thompson Pipe Group
- Wismann Group, LLC. and William Wismann
Work highlights
Advising Thompson Pipe Group as a defendant and counterclaimant in a litigation with the technology licensor Amiblu Technology in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, arising from Amiblu’s attempt to terminate what Thompson Pipe contends is a perpetual exclusive license.
Advised Action Gypsum Supply LP in a competitor suit in the California Superior Court alleging the use of wrongful means to recruit its employees, including allegedly confidential employee compensation information.
Advising CACI, Inc. in a civil theft of trade secrets dispute involving a $7bn government contractor and the former director of the contractor’s digital forensics lab subject to non-complete, no poaching, and non-disclosure provisions.