Carla provides advice to employers in various industries, including health care, maritime, financial services, and real estate and development, on matters concerning hiring, wage-and-hour issues, disciplinary action, due diligence reviews, family and medical leave laws, disability accommodation laws, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, termination, competition, privacy, and other business-related torts.
She has successfully defended numerous clients in business and employment-related suits before state and federal courts, as well as administrative agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Maryland Commission on Civil Rights.
Carla provides management training and offers litigation avoidance advice to employers, encouraging the development of employment policies and agreements, which includes employee handbooks, arbitration agreements, non-competition and trade secret agreements, employment contracts, and separation and severance agreements.
Carla also applies her experience from presiding over disciplinary and post-termination cases in her role as a former part-time hearing officer for the Baltimore City Civil Service Commission to effectively represent her clients in alternative dispute resolution and litigation matters.
In addition to assisting her clients with employment advice and litigation, Carla quite literally wrote the book on Maryland employment law in the Maryland Employment Law Forms and Practice Manual, which offers a practical focus on the wide range of day-to-day legal issues relating to the employee/employer relationship.
Carla also serves as a trusted advisor to her clients by frequently speaking and writing about current employment law and litigation trends.