Employment Law Attorneys in Metro Washington, D.C.
For experienced and aggressive representation in a friendly and attentive client service atmosphere, contact the Thatcher Law Firm in
Greenbelt, Maryland. By limiting our practice to employment law and civil rights issues for a limited number of clients at any given time, our lawyers can provide highly knowledgeable and resourceful advocacy that integrates a thorough understanding of your rights and options with a flexible and supportive approach to resolving your problem.
Our clients can expect to receive candid advice and skillful handling of a wide variety of claims and problems that can arise on the job. If the law does not support your claim, we will let you know right away and do the best we can to help you understand why. If we can resolve your claim through negotiations or a lawsuit, we will work closely with you from the beginning to the end so that you always have the information you need about your rights, your legal options, and the best practical ways to protect your career.
We represent clients on such employment and civil rights claims as the following:
- Employment discrimination on the basis of race, age, sex, religion, sexual orientation or other prohibited grounds
- Glass ceiling claims on behalf of professional women whose career advancement has gone so far but no further
- Hostile environment and quid pro quo sexual harassment claims
- Retaliatory termination claims on behalf of whistleblowers or others asserting legally protected rights
- FMLA claims on behalf of those whose rights to pregnancy leave, parenting leave or medical leave have been violated
- Problems concerning disabilities and workplace accommodations for disabilities on the job
- Negotiating and documenting severance agreements
- Civil rights claims related to unlawful discrimination in public accommodations
- Civil mediation, either as advocates for either party engaged in actions referred for alternative dispute resolution, or as the neutral mediator in civil litigation.
Maryland employment law attorney Linda Hitt Thatcher also advises employers about workplace rights issues on matters ranging from the preparation of employee manuals to the investigation of discrimination or harassment complaints, to employee training seminars. Additionally, she is a certified mediator who can help parties to business and employment litigation find a cost-effective route to the settlement of civil disputes.
To learn more about your employment law rights in private and public sector settings in Maryland, Northern Virginia, or the Washington metro area, contact the Thatcher Law Firm in Greenbelt.
