Sutin, Thayer & Browne offers a full range of legal services on employment and labor issues in litigation and non-litigation contexts to our both public and private clients. We draft employee handbooks, policies and procedures, navigate employee benefits, consult on reductions in force and other terminations, provide training sessions on sexual harassment and discrimination, and defend lawsuits based on employment claims. We advise clients regarding day-to-day operating issues as well as provide longer-range strategic planning services. We offer a comprehensive approach to meet the needs of our business and government clients. The firm is known for its preventive legal work: its willingness and ability to avoid employment litigation on the front end for clients through mediation and dispute resolution.

  • We represent private entities on employment matters by providing general employment guidance and in contested administrative and litigation employment matters.

    • We represent public employers in all matters related to collective bargaining and matters arising from executed collective bargaining agreements.

    • We represent a majority of the employment work in the state’s largest universities and colleges.

    • We represent clients in employments matters before the EEOC and Human Rights Board (HRB), as well as those that proceed to litigation. We have had success in obtaining Non-determination Letters from both the EEOC and HRB.We handle significant defense contractor work, including issues related to mutable workplace issues and security clearances.

    • We represent national laboratories with respect to tax implications of employment benefits and compensation.

    • We defended a communications utility company in an employment class action suit resulting from a major reduction in force.

    • We represent public employers in defense of civil rights, whistleblower, discrimination and breach of contract lawsuits brought in state and federal courts.We represent a farm credit bank in the restructuring of real estate secured and working capital loans. Our work includes reviewing loan files, preparing reports to the lender, identifying deficiencies in the loan documents and collateral position and suggesting ways to address the deficiencies; issuing opinions as to the priority of the lender’s security interests; and preparing and negotiating restructuring agreements and other loan documents.

    • We represented a lender in evaluating development rights and water rights in light of possible foreclosure on real estate assets securing a $946 million line of credit. Specifically, we evaluated what development rights, contractual rights with governmental agencies, and water rights it could foreclose on, what consents might be needed, and what to expect in public or governmental approval processes.