Today’s employment law landscape has become increasingly challenging and complex for business owners and employees alike.  The stakes have never been higher - with ever-changing regulatory requirements, market forces and an evolving workplace environment, the advice of an experienced employment attorney is invaluable in protecting the best interests of your business or career.  Our team constantly monitors developments in the law as well as labor and employment practices to provide our clients with a comprehensive analysis of their options and guide them to the best strategies to avoid risk and achieve their goals.

AMM attorneys offer timely, knowledgeable, and creative advice and solutions resulting in productive, cost-effective business outcomes for employers in the Greater Philadelphia area including Bucks County and Montgomery County.

We represent clients in connection with a variety of labor and employment matters from both a management and employee perspective:

Representation from a Management Perspective

AMM has decades of practice experience assisting business owners and managers across a wide range of corporate legal needs.  Our attorneys have the sophistication to understand current risks and market forces, and understand the risks inherent in employment relationships.   We regularly guide clients through the maze of regulations to assure compliance with Federal, State and Local employment laws to keep protect their business and minimize risk.

Representation from an Employee Perspective

Our employee clients need to protect their interests should they experience discrimination, harassment, or termination issues.  We can help them negotiate a fair resolution that safeguards their compensation and future earning capacity, including, for example, equity and retirement benefits, in the event of a termination.  Likewise, they must assure themselves that they can find new employment without the impediments of poor references and restrictive covenants.  We assist our clients by negotiating these terms as part of a severance agreement.  As part of this analysis, we work with our employee clients to evaluate any available claims. 

Executive and Professional Services Employment Agreements

AMM has a practice emphasis and extensive experience in representation of complex and nuanced legal needs of C-Suite executives and professional service providers.   Executive and Professional compensation agreements are highly complex, and require the assistance of an experienced legal review to ensure your contract is fair and  in line with industry standards to that you are equipped to enter — and later exit — the company as smoothly as possible.

We assist clients by representing them in litigation, creating employment manuals, developing employment policies and procedures, and negotiating and preparing employment contracts. Our clients benefit from our extensive experience with difficult employment law problems. We provide sound advice and comprehensive legal services across a wide variety of areas in this complicated field of law, including:

• Restrictive Covenants, Covenants Not to Compete and Non-Solicitation Agreement
• Trade Secrets and Confidential Information
• Wage and Hour Law Compliance and Violations
• Drafting and Negotiating Employment and Severance Agreements
• Employment Litigation
• Employee Handbooks, Policies and Procedures
• Hiring, Discipline and Termination
• Employment Discrimination and Workplace Investigations
• Federal and State Family and Medical Leave Statutes
• Compensation Strategies, Employee Benefits and Equity Based Compensation Plans
• Risk Management Training Guidance for Employers
• Human Resources policies and advice Independent Contractor and Employee Classification
• Exempt and nonexempt employees
• Independent contractor/employee classification

Services to employers related to Policy Manuals and Procedures include:

• Drafting, implementation and annual review of important business policy manuals and procedures
• Compliance policies
• Compensation packages
• Benefits policies
• Human resources practices
• Hiring and termination
• Employee discipline procedures

Employer respresentation services to protect the interests of individual corporate officers and directors:

• Representation addressing harassment claims
• Guidance regarding risk assessment and prevention
• Assistance to employers in developing and implementing fair employment practices
• Compliance with state, federal and local laws and ordinances to insulate against exposure to employee claims and lawsuits

Our Estates & Trusts Group offers a wide array of experience and assistance in the areas of estate planning, estate and trust administration, and charitable giving. Our Estates & Trusts Group is one of the largest and most sophisticated of its kind in our area.

We work with our clients to develop estate plans that seek to maximize the preservation of wealth both during life and upon death, and that also seek to minimize the potential for future conflicts among heirs and other future stakeholders. This planning often includes advice on how to protect clients’ assets from erosion by death taxes, long-term care costs, and other future claims. While our planning is focused on individual wealth, much of our planning work is with entrepreneurs and investors, where we work with our Business & Finance Group to meld private wealth planning with business planning.

Our Group also spends a great deal of time assisting our client’s personal representatives (i.e., Executors, Trustees, Guardians, etc.) in the management of wealth transfer, helping them to administer decedents’ estates, trusts, and guardianships of minors or incapacitated persons.

This Group’s services include assistance for clients in the following areas:

• Asset Protection Planning
• Charitable Giving
• Elder Law & Medicaid Planning
• Estate Planning & Family Wealth Preservation
• Estate Planning for Non-Citizens and Expatriates
• Estate & Trust Administration
• Guardianships
• Planning for Individuals with Disabilities and Special Needs Trusts
• Planning for IRAs and Other Retirement Benefits
• Probate, Estate and Fiduciary Litigation

Our Estates and Trust practice area has a broad geographic range, representing clients in the Greater Philadelphia area and Bucks County and Montgomery County, and throughout Central Pennsylvania, Eastern Pennsylvania, Central New Jersey and South Jersey.

Guardianship services include:

• Representation of family members in proceedings seeking guardians of adult incapacitated persons

Core Estate Planning Services include:

• Wills, and if appropriate, Revocable Trusts
• Powers of Attorney and Living Wills
• Beneficiary Designations for Life Insurance and Retirement Plans

 More complex estate planning may involve the strategies using:

• Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
• Funded Revocable Trusts
• Transfers of business interests and certain investment assets via Family Limited Partnerships (FLPs) and Family Limited Liability Companies (FLLCs)
• Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs), Grantor Retained Unitrusts (GRUTs), and Grantor Retained Income Trusts (GRITs)
• Charitable Remainder Trusts and Charitable Lead Trusts
• Private Foundations
• Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPRTs)
• Sales and gifts to Irrevocable Grantor Trusts
• Domestic Asset Protection Trusts
• Limited Liability Companies and similar entities for family asset protection
• Qualified Domestic Trusts (QDOTs) for non-citizen spouses