John Marshall is an expert in all aspects of employment and partnership law - both contentious and non-contentious. Acting only for individuals, he often handles complex multimillion-pound deals and employment litigation across several legal jurisdictions. During his career he has dealt with executive contract negotiation and drafting and devised and rolled out global employment policies and procedures, providing training on implementation. John’s practice includes High Court litigation concerning the enforcement of restrictive covenants, interpretation of contractual terms, implied terms, penalty clauses, and the assessment of damages. He also handles a number of employment tribunal claims, many involving whistleblowing and discrimination.
Kim Boreham regularly advises employees on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters including employment contracts, termination disputes and entitlements, structuring and negotiation of exit packages, entitlements under bonus and share option schemes, and discrimination claims. She has represented clients in High Court actions involving enforcement of restrictive covenants and claims for injunctive relief in Hong Kong.
Cristiano Cominotto is a Founding Partner of AL - Assistenza Leglae. His practice focuses on advising executives, managers, and employees on a range of employment and labour matters including: the drafting and negotiation of employment contracts, executive benefits, mobbing, discrimination, health & safety, pensions, private health insurance, severance packages, unfair dismissals, and work permits for foreign nationals working in Italy.
Wendi Lazar is a partner at Outten & Golden LLP in New York where she co-heads the firm’s Individual Practice and the Executives and Professionals Practice Group. Ms. Lazar practices in many areas of employment law with a focus on executive agreements, including retention, expatriate, non-competition, talent, severance, and compensation arrangements. She also represents teams of executives, founders, and partners transitioning during a sale, merger and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. Ms. Lazar’s practice is international in scope, and she advises clients and attorneys in the U.S. and abroad on employment, contract, and often related equity agreements. She also represents law partners and associates, accounting professionals, doctors and medical practitioners in all transactional matters.
Ms. Lazar writes and regularly lectures on employment issues to bar associations and industry groups and has had numerous legal articles and book chapters published. She actively serves as an executive member of the NYSBA Labor & Employment Section, the ABA Commission on Women, and the Labor & Employment Section’s International Committee.
Martindale-Hubbell recognizes Ms. Lazar as an AV “Preeminent” rated attorney. She has been listed by Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and Lawdragon 500. Ms. Lazar was elected as a Fellow to the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers. She is also a Board Member of Work Life Law, UC Hastings College of the Law.
Outten & Golden focuses on a global scale on advising and representing individuals in employment, partnership, and related workplace matters. The firm counsels individuals on employment and severance agreements; handles complex compensation and benefits issues, and advises professional partners (including accountants, doctors, and lawyers) with contractual and ethical issues. It also represents employees with a wide variety of claims, including discrimination and harassment based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, race, disability, national origin, religion, and age, as well as retaliation, whistleblower, and contract claims.
Outten & Golden is also at the forefront of family leave issues and veterans’ workplace rights. The firm handles some of the largest class action and impact litigations in the United States involving a wide range of employment issues, including economic exploitation, gender- and race-based harassment and discrimination, wage-and-hour violations, violations of the WARN Act, and other systemic workers' rights issues.
The firm is dedicated to representing employees and other individuals (including executives, partners, and talent), not employers, in all industries, all professions, and at all employment levels. As advocates for workplace fairness, the firm’s mission is to help advance the goals of employees and protect their rights against injustices in the workplace.
Outten & Golden’s attorneys advise and represent clients in matters involving former employers, current employers, and potential future employers. We also represent groups of employees collectively, as well as executive teams in transition. The firm’s international practice reaches across borders to represent and protect multinational employees.
Jim McDonald is a no-nonsense labour lawyer, representing employees in a wide variety of employment law matters. This includes advising managers and other employees on negotiating employment contracts and dealing with their particular and unique workplace problems. He counsels individuals whose employment has been terminated about their severance entitlements regardless of how complicated or straightforward those entitlements might be, and he is not reluctant to litigate with employers when his clients aren’t satisfied with what the employer is prepared to offer.
