Executive and Professional Advocacy
Shilepsky Hartley Robb attorneys pioneered the area of executive advocacy, a practice that focuses on the unique legal needs of executive level and professional individuals, and offers them a powerful combination of sophisticated transactional services and aggressive trial capabilities.

Shilepsky Hartley Robb brings the experience and savvy needed to handle complex employment matters with finesse. The firm’s attorneys understand the underlying business issues, and often provide behind-the-scenes counsel to help clients obtain preemptive business solutions for what might otherwise become legal problems. 

Shilepsky Hartley Robb provides clients with both a shield and a sword. The firm’s transactional lawyers make the case for how clients’ interests are aligned with shareholders’ interests, while the firm’s seasoned trial lawyers know what it takes to win the legal battle. Having that recourse gives clients an edge in and out of the courtroom. 

This practice area includes:

• Change-of-control and severance protections
• Defense of employment when termination has been threatened, including corporate founders being forced out
• NASD, AAA, JAMS and contract-specific arbitrations
• Protection of incentive compensation arrangements
• Defeat of overbroad non-competes and other career restrictions
• Employment issues of expatriated executives and professionals, domestically and abroad
• Contractual protections for both long-term and newly hired executives
• Age, gender and other forms of bias