About Strategic Counseling & Employment Practices
Blank Rome’s employment, benefits and labor lawyers assist clients in developing strategic responses to the many challenges which arise in this area of the law.
Our lawyers are frequently called upon to help clients navigate extremely sensitive issues which pose significant risk to their organizations or which require a comprehensive strategic solution.
What We Do
- Advise boards of directors, audit committees, general counsel, and executive management on strategic options to avoid or mitigate legal risk and reputational harm.
- Construct policy and preventative solutions to legal challenges in the workplace.
- Anticipate legal, legislative and policy changes to inform high-level decision making.
- Represent clients in high-profile, high-risk engagements such as corporate campaigns, internal investigations, and government inquiries.
What Sets Us Apart
- We understand our client’s business and can see “the big picture.”
- We focus on pragmatic solutions to complex problems in alignment with client objectives.
- We are able to draw on the firm’s unique resources, including the firm’s government relations and public relations professionals, to manage complex issues.
Experience
- Represented the Board of Directors of a large U.S. public company to investigate employee actions in several countries around the world.
- Advised the audit committee of several public companies in connection with allegations of impropriety and illegal activity against senior executives and managers which had widespread implications for the companies involved.
- Advised clients in the context of mergers and acquisitions on comprehensive solutions to employee and labor relations challenges facing the acquiring or selling entities.
- Advised clients on designing and implementing corporate reductions in force impacting employees nationwide and around the world.
- Assisted clients in connection with corporate campaigns by labor unions, by providing a range of strategic and practical advice.
News & Views
Blog Post / Publications
DOL Proposes New Joint Employer Rule Under the FLSA, FMLA, and MSPAApril 24, 2024
News / Press Release
Blank Rome Welcomes New Associates Caitlin M. Murphey and Terence Liao in Orange CountyFebruary 19, 2026
Blog Post / Publications
California’s AB 692 Reins in “Stay or Pay” Provisions in California Employment AgreementsJanuary 20, 2026
Honor / Honors & Awards
Allison N. Powers Recognized as a Women in Law – Leaders Leaning In HonoreeDecember 8, 2025
News / Press Release
Blank Rome Welcomes New Labor & Employment Associate Raymond Arroyo in ChicagoNovember 11, 2025
Blog Post / Publications
New Jersey Steps Into Fray, Bans Mandatory Employee MeetingsSeptember 17, 2025
Alert / Publications
What the New Tax Treatment of Overtime Pay and Tips Means to EmployersJuly 17, 2025






















