Our recognized bench strength and experience helps real estate-related employers and stakeholders effectively manage the workforce challenges built into their industry such as the following:

• Counseling on disability, leave, health management and accommodation issues, including, among other things, emotional support, service animal and similar accommodation requests.
• Advising on how to comply with ADA Title III public access regulations, including areas such as conducting surveys of existing facilities and reviewing plans for new construction and/or renovations.
• Designing remote and hybrid workplace policies and procedures. 

• Formulating employee benefit programs.
• Providing full-service counseling on employee benefits issues, including, but not limited to, issues arising out of multi-employer pension plans.

• Advising and counseling the entire range of employment law, workplace safety, data breach, privacy, cybersecurity, social media, and other compliance issues.
• Providing custom trainings and best practices for workplace and employment law, effective workplace investigations, workplace respect, implicit bias, DEI and various other topics tailored to the real estate industry.

• Addressing classification issues and claims of misclassification relating to independent contractor status, overtime exempt status and the full gamut of wage + hour audit, litigation and other claims.
• Advising on workforce restructuring, reductions-in-force and WARN Act compliance issues.
• Advising on labor relations issues for both union-free and unionized employers, including areas like compliance with NLRB rulings and guidance applicable to all employers and negotiations with unions such as the SEIU.

• Drafting a wide breadth of contracts and agreements, including, employment contracts, restrictive covenant agreements, independent contractor agreements, commission agreements and other contracts.
• Assisting with employment law due diligence and related issues associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and other transactions.