Megan Eckel

Megan C. Eckel focuses her practice on the labor and employment aspects of corporate transactions, as well as providing strategic advice and counsel to employers on a wide range of workplace issues. She regularly advises clients on employment matters arising in mergers, acquisitions, financings, restructurings, and other business transactions, including workforce-related risk assessments, employee classification, restrictive covenants, reductions in force, employee separations, compensation arrangements, and compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws. Ms. Eckel works closely with both buyers and sellers to identify, assess, and allocate employment-related risks and liabilities. Her practice also includes counseling employers on day-to-day personnel matters, workplace investigations, policy development and implementation, employee discipline and performance management, disability and leave accommodations, wage and hour compliance, employee relations issues, and management strategies. She regularly assists clients in negotiating employment agreements, separation and release agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, and the resolution of employment disputes, helping employers pursue practical and business-oriented outcomes while seeking to minimize legal risk.

In addition to her transactional and counseling practice, Ms. Eckel represents employers in litigation, administrative proceedings, and pre-litigation disputes involving claims of race, sex, color, disability, and age discrimination and harassment; wrongful termination; retaliation; wage and hour violations; and restrictive covenant enforcement. Her practice encompasses both state and federal law across a variety of industries. Ms. Eckel also advises employers through government agency investigations and charges, including matters before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.