Employment Litigation & Counseling

Coviello Weber & Dahill LLP attorneys represent employers and employees on a host of employment-related issues and disputes. Practice includes the representation of highly-compensated professionals and executives in negotiating employment and compensation agreements and related disputes. Practice also includes representation of clients with offices and facilities nationwide, including defending claims brought for various forms of alleged discrimination, including gender, sexual harassment, sexual preference, religion, age, national origins, and disability.

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Coviello Weber & Dahill LLP brings together a team of employment litigation attorneys representing employers and employees on a host of employment-related issues and disputes. Practice includes the representation of highly-compensated professionals and executives in the negotiation of employment and compensation agreements and related disputes. Practice also includes employment counseling services and the representation of clients with offices and facilities nationwide, including defending claims brought for various forms of alleged discrimination, including gender, sexual harassment, sexual preference, religion, age, national origins, and disability. Fora include federal and state courts, state human rights commissions, and arbitration. Practice also includes advice on terminations, force reductions, enforcing restrictive covenants, and claims asserting breaches of restrictive covenants. Representative matters are summarized below.*    

  • Successfully defeated an effort to enforce restrictive covenants against very highly compensated investment bankers.

  • Successfully enforced restrictive covenants preventing the use of misappropriated proprietary and confidential information.

  • Representation of Michael Page International in multiple matters, including matters successfully enforcing non-competes in which injunctive relief has been obtained and payments made by adversaries.

  • Dismissal of claims alleging discrimination due to disability filed in Connecticut Human Rights and Opportunities commission.

  • Obtained arbitration award dismissing claims against the company for gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation.

  • Representation of Mankraft Corp. in a successful bench trial of alleged discrimination claims in Pennsylvania State Court, Philadelphia. Obtained favorable settlement on behalf of the company after two days of arbitration of a claim for religion and national origin discrimination.

  • Successful negotiations with the New York Attorney General’s office concerning claims alleging violations of disability laws.

  • Successful negotiation with New York City Department of Consumer Affairs concerning alleged violations of Sick Leave Law.

  • Representation of a major supermarket chain in connection with claims asserted by the Department of Labor under the Fair Labor Standards Act for the alleged failure to pay overtime wages.

  • Representation of technology start-up with respect to “for cause” termination of the executive.

  • Representation of Title VII plaintiff in federal court appellate proceedings against United States Postal Service.

*List of representative matters includes those handled by our lawyers prior to the launch of Coviello Weber & Dahill LLP.

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