Severance Lawyers in NY, NJ and MA
Severance Negotiations: Don't wait for checkmate
Every person who contacts our firm seeking assistance in a severance negotiation and who has a severance agreement "in hand" (or on it's way) will be scheduled for a free initial screening call with a lawyer. In the call, we will explain our standard fee arrangement for severance negotiations: our law firm will only get paid if you get more severance pay - if you don't get more severance pay, you don't owe us anything.
Severance Negotiations Are A Game Of Chess
If your company offers you a severance agreement and severance pay, they will ask you to sign the agreement without explaining that many, if not most, severance offers are negotiable. This is because a signed severance agreement is very valuable for a company. All severance agreements contain standard terms: payment in exchange for an employee's agreement not to sue and to leave quietly. You are offering something of value to your employer: the security of knowing that you will not stir up trouble on your way of the door, or shortly thereafter, by filling a lawsuit, sabotaging the workplace, or contacting the press and airing your grievances publicly.
Think of it this way: what if the value of agreeing to leave peacefully and not bring a lawsuit is much more than what you have been offered in the proposed severance agreement? In our experience, it almost always is.
You Are A Pawn In The Severance Game
Employers know that employees often don’t know when they have legal claims against their employer. Often, an employer will provide a severance agreement with a “release of claims” and an offer of severance pay that does not reflect the true value of the legal claims you are agreeing to forgo.
If You Hire A Lawyer In The Severance Game, Your Pawn Becomes A Queen
Most companies know the gig is up when an employee hires an employment lawyer to negotiate severance pay. This is because lawyers know if you have legal claims, and can send a “demand letter” explaining this to your former employer demanding that you be paid more severance.
We turn the severance game around so the pawn becomes the powerful queen – you are the one in control of the severance negotiation.
We Only Get Paid If You Get More
In our experience, most people who call us with severance agreements have leverage to get more. We offer attractive fee agreements because we are willing to bet on you, and on our firm's track record of success. If you have a severance agreement and leverage to negotiate, we will agreed to only get paid if you get more. If you don’t get more, we get nothing.
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