The Launch of MLC Employment: Helping Nonprofits and Social Enterprises be Better Employers
Today, I not only get to announce the arrival of another great attorney to join our growing team in Daniel Lac, I also get to announce the arrival of a whole new line of service for the firm: MLC Employment.
MLC Employment will be the vehicle through which our firm goes beyond just the specialized tax, corporate, and outside general counsel services we provide to nonprofits, and provides specialized labor, employment, and human resources legal advice to nonprofits, social enterprises, cooperatives, and other organizations committed to maintaining positive and compliance relations with their employees. Daniel Lac will be the leader of this effort, applying his 10+ years of employment law experience at major law firms for a wide variety of complex organizations to create an employment law practice that caters primarily to the needs of nonprofit organizations.
We are so lucky to be able to take such invaluable experience and offer it on an affordable basis to our nonprofit clients and other mission-aligned organizations. There are so many situations that arise in the course of operating an organization that benefit from the input of an employment law expert: governance, compensation, hiring, termination, restructuring, expansion, and day-to-day human resources challenges. I believe our clients will appreciate the new breadth of our services, and I look forward to seeing the way this firm supports its clients grow over time.
Why employment law for the first expansion for our services? Well.. because it’s so important, both to our clients and to our mission. Whether organizations succeed vs. fail, uphold their values vs. betray them, create value for their community vs. extract value from it... so much of that turns chiefly on the relationship between management and labor. And if we are going to have a positive impact as a firm in terms of supporting structures that empower labor and support worker-directed structures, it is going to take real expertise on the legal framework that governs those relationships. I have always been passionate about these from a mission perspective, but am too far down the road of being a tax and corporate law specialist.. Having an employment law expert will let us get even more creative with the many organizations that want to restructure these relationships.
With that in mind, and on behalf of the full team here, I want to welcome Daniel Lac to the firm. Daniel is based in San Diego, but like all of our attorneys, is available to support all of our clients wherever and however we can.
