Casner & Edwards is a Boston-based law firm that represents clients across the U.S. and around the world, providing the wide range of legal services they value and require to succeed. Our clients include privately held, privately financed businesses, as well as the individuals and families that found, own and run them. The firm is also well-known for its representation of nonprofit organizations, from small foundations to industry-leading institutions.

The firm combines contemporary knowledge, personal service and accessibility to help clients achieve their goals. We consider it an important measure of our success that many of our clients have been with us for decades, and that both our clients and peers consider us to be a respected counselor, staunch ally and resolute advocate.

Casner’s Employment Law Group represents management across the full spectrum of matters involving the employer-employee relationship. We provide employers, HR professionals and in-house counsel with day-to-day compliance advice and handle employment contracts, state and federal compliance, employee terminations and employee claims of every kind. In addition, we advise on the development of personnel policies and procedures. Our team also assists on issues relating to our firm’s general corporate representations as well as independent investigations.

With substantial employment litigation experience, we represent clients before state and federal courts, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We have significant experience with the myriad laws that govern the workplace, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the WARN Act and many other federal and state laws. Our workplace dispute experience includes matters involving protection of trade secrets and confidential business information, and restrictive covenants not to compete.

Backed by Casner & Edwards’ full range of business counseling and litigation expertise, our Employment Law practice includes: