The Law Office of Sally L. Adams provides high-quality and effective representation at reasonable rates, with flexible billing arrangements (including an hourly, flat-fee or retainer basis).

Employment Counseling

Busy professionals need prompt and practical advice to achieve business objectives while managing legal risk.  The goal is to ensure best workplace practices and policies that comply with the many and ever-changing federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations affecting employment relationships.  Comprehensive employment law counseling, advice, and training includes:

• Preventing discrimination, harassment, and retaliation
• Hiring, performance management, discipline and discharge
• Reductions in force, and mass layoffs and plant closings under the WARN and "mini-WARN" Acts
• Preparing and reviewing employment agreements, personnel policies and employee handbooks
• Conducting workplace investigations
• Compliance with the federal and state Family and Medical Leave laws, maternity and parental leave laws, and other leave requirements
• Accommodating disabilities
• Wage and hour audits and compliance
• Privacy and technology in the workplace
• Disputes involving non-compete agreements and other employment agreements
• Union and unionization issues
• Massachusetts data security compliance
• ...and a variety of other workplace issues

Employment Litigation

The goal is to be proactive to avoid litigation, but there are times when litigation becomes necessary.  My law office has a proven record managing all phases of complex disputes that may arise out of employment relationships, including claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour violations, wrongful termination, invasion of privacy and other tort claims, and violation of non-competition and other protective covenants.  Representation covers a variety of settings, including:

• State and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels
• Administrative agencies including the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Fair Labor Division, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor
• Mediations, arbitrations and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings

• Before administrative agencies such as the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission and the National Labor Relations Commission
• In collective bargaining, unfair practice claims, mediations, arbitrations and other proceedings