Business Law Services
When The Success Of Your Business Depends On Quality Legal Help, Turn To Our FirmWhether you are in the earliest stages of planning for a new business or are a seasoned business owner, you already know one important truth: Positioning a business in California for long-term success and actually realizing success in the business world are seldom easy.
You deserve legal help that appreciates the challenges that confront any business owner, that understands how quickly legal disputes can affect your bottom line and that knows from experience how to help you avoid the types of legal issues that could threaten your success. In the East Bay, countless businesses have turned to the Law Offices of Denise Eaton May for success-driven legal counsel. Grounded in more than three decades of litigation and transactional experience, we can help your business succeed at any stage of its life cycle.
Few places equal the Bay Area when it comes to innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit. We help new businesses translate their business ideas into viable enterprises and help established businesses navigate an increasingly competitive and complex landscape with confidence.
Is Mediation Right For You?Are you searching for a quality law firm to help you resolve disputes and litigation through the mediation process? The Law Offices of Denise Eaton May, in Hayward, California, offers the legal advice and services you need most.
DEM Legal and Consulting Services strongly believe that mediation provides a superior route to resolution than litigation. We will work with you to determine a mediation process that will best suit the parties’ needs. DEM LEGAL AND CONSULTING SERVICES can represent you in mediation and arbitration proceedings or assist by mediating a dispute.
When you are involved in a legal dispute, you may need outside help to resolve it. Sometimes the personal, professional, and financial stakes are just too high to try to fix this on your own.
Fortunately, there is a method of dispute resolution that does not require you to go to court. Mediation is a process by which disputing parties work with a mediator to come to a mutually beneficial agreement. The individual parties may or may not be represented by individual attorneys.
Employment Law For Employers
Guiding Employers In The Bay Area Through Complex Labor Laws
As an employer, navigating the plethora of federal, state and even local employment laws has never been more challenging. From relatively routine matters such as minimum wage laws to the significant changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act, knowing how to remain in compliance with labor laws while still looking out for your bottom line is more difficult than ever.
The Law Offices of Denise Eaton May can guide your business in creating an efficient workplace and addressing disagreements that frequently develop between employers and their workers. Founding attorney Denise Eaton May has an accomplished career spanning three decades; working with the California Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Alameda County Counsel, the Alameda County Employees Retirement Association and having served as the Director of Human Resources for Alameda County, Assistant Director of Human Resources for Contra County, she combines extensive knowledge of labor and employment laws with real-world experience in the human resources field. This is experience you cannot afford to do without as you seek to protect your business’s legal interests while promoting a productive workplace.
By providing general legal consulting in addition to comprehensive litigation, mediation and arbitration counsel, our firm can assist employers whether they are seeking to avoid legal disputes, resolve a discrete legal issue or require extensive litigation services.
Employment Law For Workers
Protecting Employee Rights
You have rights in the workplace. Although everyone knows this is true, many people have no idea what do when they experience harassment, wrongful termination or other forms of discrimination in the workplace. It is important to work with a lawyer who can understand your situation and help you find an equitable outcome.
At Law Offices of Denise Eaton May, we represent clients in a wide range of employment law matters. Denise Eaton May has been handling employment law matters for more than 25 years. If you would like to discuss your case with an attorney, please call us at 510-244-3307.
Areas Of Focus
We represent clients in a wide range of employment law matters:
- Workplace discrimination: The law protects employees from being unfairly treated as a result of age, disability, gender, religion, sexual orientation and other factors.
- Harassment/sexual harassment: You have a right to work in an environment free from hostility or quid pro quo harassment from a superior or another colleague.
- Severance agreements: If you are being let go from your employment, it is important to work with an attorney who can negotiate a severance agreement that will protect your interests and maximize your opportunities.
- Wage and hour violations: In many cases, employers will misclassify employees, force them to work unpaid overtime hours or commit other wage and hour violations.
- Wrongful termination: Although not every employment termination is unlawful, employees enjoy protection from wrongful termination based on discrimination or other unlawful policies.
