Vanessa C. Krumbein

Vanessa C. Krumbein focuses her practice on providing compliance-related and strategic advice to corporate clients of all sizes on all aspects of employment law. Vanessa is a go-to point of contact for advice on a wide range of workplace issues, including employee performance and discipline, mitigating risk associated with employee terminations, compliance with wage and hour and disability accommodation laws, reorganizations and reductions in force, pay transparency, background checks, paid time off issues, workplace complaints, and a variety of other employment matters. Vanessa also works closely with clients to draft and implement employee handbooks and other personnel policies with the goal of making them easy to understand by employees, provides training on maintaining discrimination and harassment-free workplaces, and conducts investigations to address employee complaints of unfair treatment. Vanessa also has experience working on employment issues unique to clients in the media and entertainment sector.

Vanessa is also a go-to source for creating employment documents of all types (such as employment and independent contractor agreements, arbitration agreements, non-competes, confidential information, and IP protection agreements, commission and bonus agreements, and severance packages), and is regularly engaged to conduct audits of workplace wage and hour practices. Vanessa also handles employment-related issues and diligence in M&A transactions and counsels on post-merger employee integration matters. Vanessa regularly partners with clients and colleagues across the globe.