Why Use The Roadmap?If you have been offered a severance package, you have a limited time to consider whether you are going to release legal claims in exchange for severance payments. This is a big decision, and one which it is difficult to make without help.
If you are an employer and facing the hard decision about letting someone go, you may be wondering whether severance is appropriate, and if so, how much. This leaves people, too often, making decisions they later regret, decisions that could easily be informed by experienced legal advice. This is why our employment law process is designed to help you make informed decisions at every step from start to finish- whatever "finish" means. The first step is to complete our Solutions Roadmap, which is 100% confidential and 100% free. |
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Here is how it works:
- Fill out and submit the questionnaire in the link below.
- Within one business day, we will provide a response with preliminary feedback about your severance situation.
- If you want to after that, we can set you up for a meeting with a member of our team who can explain your options and what the process looks like moving forward. This meeting is also free.
Some other things you should know:
- The reason our response is not immediate is that this is not an automated marketing process, or something driven by AI. A human member of our team will review your answers and provide you with preliminary feedback.
- Though we cannot establish an attorney-client relationship with you based on an online form submission, all information that you provide is still subject to the attorney-client privilege and will never be shared outside of our firm without your permission.
- We will follow up with you to see if you would like to take the next step of scheduling a consultation- this is how we are best able to help people in situations like yours. But if you decide after receiving our preliminary feedback that you do not want to pursue the matter or discuss it further with us, all you have to do is let us know and we can take you off our follow up list.
Meet Our Employment Lawyers
Emily Smith-Lee is the owner and founder of slnlaw. She is a 1996 graduate of Boston College Law School. She was previously a partner at the Boston office of a large international firm, where she worked for thirteen years before starting the firm that became slnlaw in 2009. She has been recognized as Massachusetts Superlawyer each year since 2013, and in 2018 earned recognition as one of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly's Lawyers of the Year. She has written a book on employment law: Rules of the Road, What You Need to Know About Employment Laws in Massachusetts. Along with the rest of the slnlaw team, she has helped hundreds of clients navigate, negotiate, or defend against the terms of their employment agreements, including non competes, non solicitation agreements, employment contracts with intellectual property provisions and other restrictive covenants, and executive employment agreements.
Rebecca Rogers: Rebecca is a 2006 graduate of Boston College Law School, and has worked with slnlaw since 2013. She previously worked as an intellectual property litigation attorney for Fish & Richardson in Boston, Massachusetts, and clerked for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Rebecca has helped many clients understand and evaluate their non compete agreements and develop strategies for defending against non compete enforcement and negotiating resolution, and understand and navigate other employment contracts.
Jenna Ordway: Jenna is a 2013 graduate of Quinnipiac Law School, and also earned an LLM in Taxation from Boston University in 2015. She has been affiliated with slnlaw since 2011, first as a law clerk and then as an attorney. Jenna has been recognized since 2019 as a "Rising Star" by Massachusetts Superlawyers. Jenna works with employers to develop reasonable and enforceable employee agreements, including non competes, non solicitation agreements, executivev employment agreements and incentive agreements. She has also helped employees understand and evaluate their non compete agreements and develop strategies for defending against non compete and non solicitation enforcement and negotiating resolution.
Elijah Bresley: Eli is a 2014 graduate of Seton Hall Law school, and has worked with slnlaw since 2020. He previously worked for a boutique employment law firm outside of Boston, and then for the Labor and Employment department of a large Boston firm. He also spent a year clerking for the judges of the Superior Court in Hartford, Connecticut. Eli has helped clients both evaluate and negotiate their employment agreements, including non competes, non solicitation agreements, employment contracts with intellectual property provisions and other restrictive covenants, and agreements requiring employee payback of retention bonuses or training expenses. Eli has also defended claims against employees based on employment contracts in state and federal courts.
