Hixson Nagatani LLP is a boutique employment law firm for employers.
Hixson Nagatani LLP is a boutique employment law firm that delivers the best of both worlds to employers: big firm quality, with small firm personal service and affordability.
Big Firm Quality: The firm is comprised solely of lawyers who had successful careers in some of California's largest elite law firms, including at the partner level. We continue to provide the same top quality level of representation we did when we were with the big firms.
Small Firm Personal Service and Affordability: Our small firm platform allows us to provide more personal service at more affordable rates. All clients are eligible for high volume discounts, and flat fee arrangements are available for certain projects.
Technology Companies: The firm’s lawyers have advised and represented many hundreds of technology companies, including mobile technology, social media, software, semi-conductor, bio-tech, and clean tech companies.
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Hixson Nagatani LLP is a full-service employment law firm for employers. We provide businesses with ongoing compliance support, and also defend employers in litigation.
Our firm’s “bread and butter” is providing employment law compliance support to our clients. By contrast, most employment lawyers focus the vast majority of their time on litigation — with big firms often focused on large cases such as class actions. We spend most of our time supporting our client’s Human Resources professionals, in-house counsel, and others with employment law compliance responsibilities. Our clients benefit from access to immense “off the shelf” resources we have developed over many years to support them in their employment law compliance efforts.
Our compliance services include:
Compliance Trainings: Including California’s mandatory sexual harassment prevention training, management “employment law 101″ type training, training managers on hiring/termination dos and don’ts, and performance management training.
Employee Handbooks: Review, updating, and/or set up.
New Hire Forms: Review and/or setup of employment applications, offer letters, executive employment agreements, confidentiality/invention assignment agreements, commission plans, bonus plans, and arbitration agreements.
Performance Improvement Plans: Templates, advice on specific cases.
Leave of Absence & Disability Accommodation: California and federal leave letter templates for CFRA/FMLA, ADA, PDL (and other forms of leave), leave policies, strategies for combating leave abuse, integration of attendance-leave policies, and managing disability accommodation issues.
Terminations: Risk assessment, risk lowering recommendations, termination talking points, termination letters, and separation agreements.
Wage & Hour: Review of exempt classifications, advice on non-exempt employee compliance requirements, including with respect to meal/rest breaks, wage notices, minimum wage, overtime, piece rates, and record keeping.
Contractor Status: Contractor vs. employee classification review, and review/setup of independent contractor agreements.
Investigations: Advice on conducting investigations and investigation templates. Our attorneys may be retained to conduct investigations directly in appropriate cases.
Hiring: Background check issues, non-competes, non-solicitation clauses, and rescinding offers.
Layoffs: Adverse impact analysis, employee layoff selection documentation, separation agreements, Older Worker Benefits Protection Act requirements/disclosures, communications guidance, and WARN Act.
