I help employers meet workplace challenges by providing practical advice to enable them to: - Prevent employee problems from arising, - Anticipate, evaluate & manage risk, - Comply with ever-changing employment laws & regulations, - Craft employment, non-compete, & independent contractor agreements, - Draft & implement employment policies, - Adapt to new technologies & work arrangements, and - Resolve employee disputes.I defend employers in trials and appeals in state and federal courts, administrative proceedings before the EEOC and other governmental agencies, and in arbitration when disputes with employees erupt into claims of: - Wrongful discharge, - Unlawful discrimination, harassment, or retaliation, - Trade secret theft or improper use of data or information, - Violations of whistleblower protections, - Defamation or business disparagement, and - Violation of wage & hour laws.I also represent closely-held businesses and executives in: - Disputes between partners, members, or shareholders; - Negotiations of employment contracts, noncompete agreements, separation, and severance agreements; - Disputes over noncompete, nonsolicitation, and nondisclosure agreements, trade secrets, and business torts, and - “Business divorces." I also provide alternative dispute resolution services in the areas of employment law: - Mediation - Arbitration - Early Neutral Case EvaluationAfter growing up on the plains of northeastern Colorado, I went east to college and law school and then returned to serve as a law clerk to federal trial judge Alfred A. Arraj. I spent nearly two decades in private practice as a counselor to and litigator for employers in a broad variety of industries. Before co-founding the Leh Law Group, LLC, I returned to public service as a prosecutor, assisting with investigations, presenting testimony in hearings, and trying dozens of cases to jury verdict. Before I co-founded Leh Law Group, I was Of Counsel to the largest employer-side law firm in the world. As a result, I serve my clients with a full range of skills as a counselor, advocate, and trial attorney.