- Wrongful TerminationThe Law Offices of Paul H. Merry cover all aspects of employment law and offers representation in negotiation, mediation, and litigation through appeal in all federal and state courts and agencies. The office concentrates on race, age, disability, sex, religion, and national origin discrimination claims. Representation is also offered in wrongful termination suits, sexual harassment, employment torts, contracts, covenants not to compete and separation agreements.
- Employment LitigationThe office has also used innovative approaches to resolve workplace problems, including negotiating terms for workplace practices and conduct that address and resolve the root causes of employment issues without the expense and delay frequently encountered in formal process. The focus has been on careful analysis of the core issue presented, and an open-minded approach to choosing the response most likely to yield the most beneficial result for the client in the least amount of time and least amount of expense.
- Sexual Harassment
- Disability DiscriminationSince 1990 the Law Offices of Paul H. Merry, Esq., have represented individual employees with relation to their employment, ranging from custodial workers to top level chief executive officers to accomplished professionals in medicine, education, finance, the law and other fields. New legislation increasing employee rights has been passed almost annually since the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Using legal remedies arising from contract and tort law, to anti-discrimination and other statutes, to constitutional rights, the office has secured significant financial and legal relief, ranging up to values of seven figures. Significant victories have been won in race and disability discrimination cases as well as in sex and sexual orientation discrimination situations. In the majority of cases the office has been able to achieve substantial results without litigation, however, using mediation or direct inter-party negotiation to produce satisfactory outcomes for its clients more quickly than through formal legal process. Many clients are employed by public schools or other governmental entities.