The best employment advice often comes before a workplace issue becomes a dispute. Peck Baxter serves as trusted employment counsel to businesses, executives, managers, and human resources professionals, providing practical guidance on the legal and operational issues that arise throughout the employment relationship.

Our attorneys advise on hiring and onboarding, compensation, employee classification, performance management, discipline and termination, leaves and accommodations, wage and hour compliance, discrimination and harassment, workplace investigations, reductions in force, executive employment matters, restrictive covenants, and other sensitive personnel decisions. We also assist employers with employment agreements, handbooks, workplace policies, internal procedures, and compliance initiatives.

As businesses grow and workplaces evolve, we help clients anticipate emerging risks associated with remote and hybrid work, artificial intelligence and workplace technology, multistate workforces, organizational restructuring, and changing employment laws. We work closely with leadership and human resources teams to develop practical solutions that satisfy legal requirements without losing sight of business realities.

Peck Baxter’s advisory practice is informed by our experience litigating employment disputes. We understand how workplace decisions, communications, policies, and documentation may later be scrutinized, allowing us to help employers address issues thoughtfully, reduce risk, and build sound employment practices before problems develop into litigation.

When workplace issues develop into disputes, employers need counsel who understand both the employment relationship and the realities of litigation. Peck Baxter represents businesses, executives, and other clients in contentious employment matters, from sensitive internal disputes and administrative proceedings through complex litigation, arbitration, and trial.

Our attorneys handle matters involving discrimination, retaliation, unlawful harassment, wrongful termination, wage and compensation disputes, employment agreements, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, executive departures, whistleblower allegations, and other employment-related claims. We also represent clients before administrative agencies and in disputes requiring emergency or injunctive relief.

Peck Baxter approaches employment disputes strategically from the outset. We evaluate the underlying facts, potential exposure, business and reputational considerations, and opportunities for early resolution while preparing each significant matter with litigation and trial in mind.

Drawing on our broader experience in complex commercial litigation and trial advocacy, we provide employers with sophisticated representation when workplace disputes become adversarial—whether the best outcome is achieved through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, dispositive motion practice, or trial.

Employment considerations are an important part of many significant business transactions and executive relationships. Peck Baxter advises businesses, executives, investors, and management teams on the employment aspects of corporate transactions and on structuring sophisticated employment arrangements that align legal protections with broader business objectives.

Our attorneys prepare and negotiate executive and employee agreements, compensation and incentive arrangements, equity-based compensation, confidentiality and intellectual property agreements, restrictive covenants, independent contractor arrangements, separation and severance agreements, retention and change-in-control arrangements, and other employment-related contracts.

We also advise on employment matters arising in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, financings, restructurings, business sales, and other strategic transactions. This includes employment-related due diligence, executive and workforce transitions, assumption or modification of existing agreements, retention arrangements, restrictive covenants, employee liabilities, and post-closing integration considerations.

By combining employment law experience with our broader corporate, M&A, private capital, and intellectual property practices, Peck Baxter approaches employment transactions as part of the larger business relationship—helping clients structure arrangements that protect valuable interests, allocate risk appropriately, and support long-term business objectives.