Seyfarth Shaw LLP‘s employment team demonstrates a niche focus on compliance solutions for employers outside the litigation context. The team is able to handle a complex range of matters due to a number of dedicated teams covering international employment, and equal pay and pay transparency. The employment practice assists employers with major organizational change, designing compliance systems, and workplace crisis response and investigations related to discrimination and harassment. Practice head David Baffa leads the team from Chicago, assisting clients with business restructuring and workplace restructurings. He is joined by Gary Friedman, who assists clients in reputational risk matters, and William Perkins, who represents clients before federal and state administrative agencies and mediators. Both are based in New York. Boston-based Lisa Damon specializes in diversity, equality, and inclusion matters. Larry Lorber focuses on compensation and pay equality in Washington, DC, and Camille Olson, based in Chicago, defends clients in matters related to discrimination, harassment, wage and hour disputes, and independent contractor issues. Ellen McLaughlin, also based in Chicago, specializes in transgender and gender identity counseling and litigation matters.
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- 'Seyfarth Shaw establishes deep, meaningful relationships with its clients so that it can help with every need as they arise in a timely, relevant manner. They are thought partners as much as they are counsel.' 'Seyfarth Shaw is a go-to firm for our legal department. They are very practical and customer-focused and can cover us across multiple jurisdictions.'
- Seyfarth goes above and beyond to establish deep, meaningful relationships with its clients so that it can help with every need as they arise in a timely, relevant manner. It is a thought partner as much as it is counsel.
Key clients
- BNP Paribas
- New York Life Insurance Company
- Thomson Reuters
- Lyft
- Halliburton
- 7-Eleven
- Ulta Beauty
Work highlights
Advising SHRM, an HR organization, on modernizing worker relationships globally in the interests of workers and the business community.
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Next Generation Partners
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Practice head
David Baffa
Other key lawyers
Gary Friedman; William Perkins; Lisa Damon; Larry Lorber; Camille Olson; Ellen McLaughlin