Founded in 1912, Smith Anderson has grown to become the largest business and litigation law firm headquartered in the Research Triangle region and one of the largest in North Carolina. We provide a full range of legal services to a diverse and dynamic group of regional, national and international companies. Over one hundred years of practicing law has grounded our Firm's culture, informed our perspective and provided us the insight necessary to help our clients succeed. Over time, our core principles have remained unchanged. We remain personally dedicated to the success, prosperity and betterment of our clients, our friends and the communities we serve.

Our experience with a wide range of employment, labor and human resources issues enables us to work with our clients to assist them in building and maintaining an employer-of-choice reputation. We do this while minimizing the burden of regulatory requirements and the distractions of regulatory investigations and audits, employee disputes and union organizing. In addition to compliance and risk-management counseling, we develop and conduct training programs for human resources professionals and line managers, offering a range of complementary compliance-support services. We host an educational client conference, The Employment Law Update, which attracts more than 300 attendees each year, and we keep our clients informed of changes in the law with our regularly published e-Trends newsletters.

When employers encounter litigation relating to employment discrimination, wrongful discharge or other employment-related issues, and when complaint investigations and compliance audits arise, we represent them with early risk assessment, dispute resolution services and trial advocacy. We have extensive employment litigation experience in state and federal courts throughout the Southeast and across the country.

We also offer significant depth of experience in trade secrets protection, non-disclosure agreements, covenants not to compete, and other legal methods of protecting confidential information and business relationships. On the front end, we help clients draft, review and revise core agreements, adopt key human resources policies and manage risk. When litigation is necessary, we have extensive experience and are prepared to pursue time-sensitive injunctive relief when that is required.

We operate as an employment and labor law boutique within a robust, full-service law firm. This affords us ready access to colleagues who focus their practice in such related areas as Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation; OSHA; Government Contracts; Data Use, Privacy & Security; Tax; Corporate Governance; Non-Compete and Trade Secrets; and Intellectual Property.