Practice Areas
— Employment Counseling and Litigation
CGR’s employment expertise is unmatched, including decades of experience at trial, arbitration, seeking and opposing applications for emergency injunctions, and counseling. Our matters include negotiating employment contracts, resolving termination disputes, litigating and arbitrating post-employment restrictive covenants, and litigating allegations of harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. Our practice includes employer- and employee-side representation of clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups to individuals. CGR thus offers a unique perspective of the mindset on “both sides of the v”–informing our advice and strategy.
Representative matters include:
Represented large U.S. investment bank in arbitration defending against allegations that it improperly raided a competitor’s technology investment banking group in violation of the individual bankers’ non-solicitation restrictive covenants; negotiated an advantageous settlement.
Represented coach of top-ten female tennis player in dispute with the Women’s Tennis Association; conducted trial and persuaded arbitrator to overturn WTA’s suspension decision, in a high-profile victory for the tennis player and her coach.
Represented one of the world’s largest banks in defending and winning a successful arbitration award in a race discrimination and retaliation dispute brought by a senior banker.
Regularly represent C-suite executives negotiating incoming contracts or termination agreements.
Regularly and successfully defend and prosecute wrongful termination and discrimination suits, and restrictive covenant/separation disputes.
Represented a nationwide trucking logistics company against a competitor and two former employees for theft of trade secrets and violation of restrictive covenants; negotiated a successful settlement.
Represented the Chief Technology Officer of a major corporation post-termination; negotiated a highly remunerated settlement.