Employment Counseling
The firm counsels employers — it does not run a plaintiff’s-side employment practice — on the documentation and decisions that keep workforce issues from becoming disputes: employment and executive agreements, contractor classification and agreements, confidentiality and restrictive covenants calibrated to Texas enforceability standards, workplace policies, and clean separations. For growing companies, this work usually arrives as part of the broader legal-infrastructure build.
Services
SEVEN ITEMS- Employment, executive, and offer documentation
- Independent contractor agreements and classification counsel
- Confidentiality, non-solicitation, and non-competition provisions under Texas standards
- Physician and practitioner non-compete counsel — drafting, review, and exit negotiation under Texas’s practitioner-specific statutory limits
- Handbooks and workplace policies, right-sized
- Separation agreements and releases
- Workforce documentation audits for growth-stage companies
Representative Experience
TWO MATTERSDeveloped employment documentation, contractor agreements, and commercial policies as part of complete legal infrastructures for growth-stage and technology companies.
Drafted executive agreements with compensation and equity components (see Executive Compensation & Equity Incentives).
Representative matters. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Process
FOUR STEPSWorkforce review
Who works for you, on what paper, with what exposure.
Documentation set
Agreements and policies drafted for your actual practices.
Rollout
Implementation sequencing, including for existing personnel.
Standing support
Classification questions, separations, and updates as law shifts.
FAQs
THREE QUESTIONSAre non-competes enforceable in Texas?
Yes, within statutory limits — if drafted to them. Most fail on scope or consideration, which is a drafting problem the firm solves in advance.
Contractor or employee?
The tests look at control and economics, not the label on the agreement. Misclassification is expensive; the review is not.
Do you defend employment lawsuits?
Employment counseling here is preventive and transactional; disputes are assessed case-by-case with the Litigation practice or referred to dedicated defense counsel where that serves you better.