Practice Areas
George Reardon is a career corporate general counsel and private practice lawyer who focuses his practice on staffing, franchising, benefits, contracting, and employment-related areas.
Mr. Reardon provides to his clients what an in-house general counsel provides. Some specific issues and services in this practice area are:
Business, Operational, and Legal Problems of the Staffing Business
- Customer staffing agreements
- Staff and temporary employee agreements and compensation plans
- Staff and assigned personnel manuals
- Independent contractor evaluation, contracting, and qualification programs
- Employee separation agreements
- Offensive or defensive workforce transfers (“tempnapping”)
- Offensive and defensive management of employees' restrictive covenant issues (“non-competes”)
- Wage& hour issues
- Counseling customers on assignment limits (“temp tenure”)
- Corporate governance
Litigation Management
- Selection of litigation counsel
- Negotiation of rates
- Development and installation of law firm billing guidelines
- Independent review of pleadings and briefs
- Invoice review and cost control
Educational Presentations
- Train staffing firm staff on customer contract negotiation
- Train customers on the management of contingent personnel
- Affordable Care Act compliance and cost strategies
- Independent contractor law, risk, and management
- Employment law topics generally
Franchising
- Development of new staffing franchise systems
- Modification of staffing franchises to achieve ACA cost minimization