It is a good idea to have any severance agreement reviewed by an experienced employment attorney before agreeing to it without requesting changes. In most cases, signing a severance agreement means waiving your rights to pursue any legal action against your former employer. Our employment law firm has years of experience in reviewing and negotiating severance agreements. We can help review and negotiate your severance documents to protect your rights.

Generally, we suggest that our clients use the specific changes that we provide them as part of the flat-fee review and negotiate for these changes on their own. However, if we believe that we could increase the amount of the severance payment and the types of benefits and that our services would add value, we may suggest that you retain us to negotiate the agreement for you. Typically, we have the greatest amount of leverage to negotiate for an increased severance payment in situations when the employee is terminated based upon discriminatory or unethical circumstances.

We would be happy to discuss with you the various options in retaining our firm to negotiate your severance. Typically, severance agreement negotiation is done on a flat-fee basis.