Britt-Marie Cole-Johnson is a partner in Robinson+Cole's Labor and Employment group, focusing her practice on private sector employment law. She counsels boards of directors, senior management, and human resources professionals in all areas of employment law, with a focus on sensitive, high-risk personnel issues and investigations as well as compliance and training.As a former board chair of a multi-million dollar organization and a counselor to the boards of significantly larger organizations, Ms. Cole-Johnson is well-versed in the key collective and individual responsibilities of directors and the critical need for boards to seek governance, risk, and strategy guidance. When there is an employment-related or board member-related opportunity, challenge, or crisis (or some combination thereof), she is called upon to provide sound, strategic counsel. She regularly counsels board chairs, chief executive officers and other C-Suite executives, and nominating, governance, and audit committees, on a variety of matters, including C-Suite and director transitions, the executive search and selection process, workplace investigations, and board and committee training.Ms. Cole-Johnson regularly advises clients regarding personnel policies, affirmative action compliance, pay equity, discipline and terminations, wage and hour issues, disability and reasonable accommodations, leaves of absence, employment contracts, unemployment, severance and separation agreements, individual terminations and reductions in force, and workplace health and safety issues. She also represents employers across various industries in litigation involving discrimination, wrongful termination, workers’ compensation retaliation, and other employment claims before state and federal administrative agencies and courts.