Including a comprehensive legal plan in your business is essential to maximizing the effectiveness and profitability of your business and limiting legal liability. Thaler Liebeler LLP has been providing businesses of all sizes with cutting edge strategic legal advice since its beginning in 1996.
The firm acts as outside general counsel for a myriad of businesses, handling issues from contract review and negotiation to developing employee handbooks and drafting confidentiality agreements and non-competes to protect company assets.
Protecting valuable company resources, from ideas to key personnel, must be a part of every company’s business model and informed legal advice is a critical part of that process.
Thaler Liebeler LLP provides counseling and advice on a wide variety of critical business operating topics: employee handbooks; sexual harassment prevention training; wage and hour compliance; contract preparation and review; non-compete analysis; non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements; hiring and termination; B2B contract negotiations; teaming and joint venture agreements; AIA construction contracts; commercial lease negotiations.
Litigation of complex commercial issues is our bread and butter. If litigation prevention or negotiation does not solve an important legal issue, Thaler Liebeler LLP will take your case to trial and prosecute it with skill and determination.
The firm acts as outside general counsel for a myriad of businesses, handling issues from contract review and negotiation to developing employee handbooks and drafting confidentiality agreements and non-competes to protect company assets.
Do you remember the Fram oil filter commercial from the 1980s?
The owner of an auto repair shop standing in a garage encourages car owners to change their oil regularly and use a Fram oil filter to avoid an expensive major engine overall. With his chief mechanic rebuilding an engine in the background, the owner holds up the signature orange colored four dollar oil filter, gestures to his mechanic and says “you can pay me now, or pay him later.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq3wL8ZXjBU
Companies that conduct a periodic legal review of employment contracts, non-competes, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, sexual harassment policies, and employee handbooks are more likely to avoid expensive major litigation later.
If litigation is unavoidable, however, Thaler Liebeler LLP provides aggressive and effective legal representation from the trial or arbitration level all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Case Study:
An advertising company with representatives throughout the mid-Atlantic region retained Thaler Liebeler LLP to review its contracts with its sales representatives. The firm conducted a comprehensive analysis of current IRS regulations governing the classification of independent contractors and employees. Based on Thaler Liebeler LLP’s advice, the client modified its contracts and compensation structure for its sales force to insure “safe harbor” status under IRS regulations.
Case Study:
A government contracting consulting company came to Thaler Liebeler LLP with question. Could the company hire a new consultant and not run afoul of the consultant’s non-compete agreement with his prior employer. The firm’s lawyers analyzed the structure and scope of the non-compete under the laws of the jurisdictions affected. The firm concluded that portions of the non-compete were unenforceable and assisted the client in negotiating an arrangement with the former employer to limit the non-compete and allow the consultant to begin work for the company.
Thaler Liebeler LLP attorneys provide strategic legal advice as an integral part of a client’s overall business strategy.Case Study:
A high level employee left a Thaler Liebeler LLP business client and attempted to divert web traffic from the company’s web site by claiming ownership of the company domain name. Thaler Liebeler LLP immediately filed a complaint for emergency injunctive relief in the U.S. District Court and obtained a temporary restraining order requiring the former employee to release the domain name.
Case Study:
A well-known non-profit organization in the Washington metro area with extensive property holdings conducted a financial viability study of its operations including a provisional plan to close several facilities. A local government responded to the study by threatening an eminent domain proceeding to take certain property from the organization at below market rates. Thaler Liebeler LLP was retained to provide advice and legal review of the governmental threat. Based on Thaler Liebeler LLP’s advice, the non-profit entered into negotiations with government officials with full knowledge of its Constitutional rights to just compensation under the Fifth Amendment.
Protecting valuable company resources, from ideas to key personnel, must be a part of every company’s business model and informed legal advice is a critical part of that process.
Thaler Liebeler LLP provides counseling and advice on a wide variety of critical business operating topics: employee handbooks; sexual harassment prevention training; wage and hour compliance; contract preparation and review; non-compete analysis; non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements; hiring and termination; B2B contract negotiations; teaming and joint venture agreements; AIA construction contracts; commercial lease negotiations.
Litigation of complex commercial issues is our bread and butter. If litigation prevention or negotiation does not solve an important legal issue, Thaler Liebeler LLP will take your case to trial and prosecute it with skill and determination.
