Employment & Incentives
Every hire, policy, agreement, and equity grant. Handled correctly the first time, in every state where your people work.
- Signed agreements for every employee and contractor
- Handbook and policies current in every state
- Workers classified correctly
- Equity and incentive grants properly papered
Legal Health Dashboard™ · Employment & Incentives
Callister, Inc.
Workforce Documentation
- Offer letter or agreement signed for every employeeGood
- Confidentiality & IP assignment signed by every employeeSignificant concerns
- Contractor agreements with IP assignment in placeSome concerns
Classification & Wage Compliance
- Employee vs. contractor classification analyzedSome concerns
- Exempt / non-exempt classifications correctQualified approval
- Multi-state pay and leave compliance currentIn progress
Compensation & Equity
- Executive compensation arrangements documentedGood
- Equity grants approved and paperedClient action required
- Separation agreements enforceable as usedGood
Your team is your biggest investment, and your biggest legal surface.
Employment claims are the most common legal problem growing companies face, and the rules change every time you hire in a new state. Getting this right is cheaper than defending it.
(01)
Own what your people build
Without signed confidentiality and IP assignment agreements, the work your employees and contractors create may not belong to your company, a gap that surfaces in every acquisition and financing. We make sure every person who builds for you has assigned what they build.
(02)
Stay compliant in every state
Wage and hour rules, leave laws, required policies, and restrictive covenant limits vary state by state, and remote work has quietly turned most companies multi-state. We track where your people are and keep your practices compliant where they actually sit.
(03)
Hire, reward, and part ways cleanly
Offers that say what you mean, incentive programs that motivate without creating tax surprises, and terminations handled with enforceable releases and correct final pay. The full employment lifecycle, papered properly at each step.
Everything an in-house legal team would handle.
From the first offer letter to executive compensation: the full lifecycle of your workforce.
Hiring & onboarding documents
Offer letters, employment agreements, confidentiality and IP assignment agreements, and compliant background check and new-hire processes.
Contractors & classification
Independent contractor agreements with IP assignment, classification analysis under federal and state tests, and clean conversion when a contractor should become an employee.
Handbook & workplace policies
An employee handbook kept current for every state where you have people: anti-harassment, leave, accommodation, remote work, and the policies each state requires.
Wage & hour compliance
Exempt and non-exempt classification, overtime and minimum wage compliance, required notices and postings, and pay practices that hold up state by state.
Equity & incentive programs
Equity incentive plans, option grants, profits interests, phantom equity, bonus and commission plans. Designed, approved, and papered grant by grant.
Separations & executive matters
Terminations with correct final pay and enforceable releases, severance and change-in-control arrangements, executive employment agreements, and workplace investigations handled under privilege.
Services are custom scoped to your business and provided in accordance with your Legal Improvement Plan and Custom Managed Legal Services Plan.
Assess, improve, and maintain, applied to employment & incentives.
Employment compliance isn't a one-time project. It changes with every hire, every state, and every year.
- (01)
Assess
We review your workforce documentation, classifications, policies, pay practices, and incentive arrangements, then rate each item on your Legal Health Dashboard™ in plain color.
- (02)
Improve
Your Legal Improvement Plan closes the gaps in priority order: missing IP assignments, misclassifications, an out-of-date handbook, unpapered equity grants.
- (03)
Maintain
Every new hire, new state, policy update, grant, and separation runs through your SuperCounsel team, handled correctly as your team grows and the law changes.
Legal Project Pipeline
Employment & Incentives projects
- Internal review
Handbook refresh · 4 states
CA and NY supplements drafted
- In progress
Contractor classification audit
12 of 18 roles reviewed
- Out for signature
Senior engineer offer + equity grant
Board consent executed
- Drafting
Executive severance framework
Benchmarking complete
- Client action
PIIA catch-up · engineering team
5 signatures outstanding
Employment attorneys who have lived inside growing teams.
Your employment work is handled by attorneys who have advised on hiring, compensation, and separations at top firms and inside operating companies, across the states where your people actually work.
Top-firm trained
Employment practice
Attorneys who counseled employers on wage and hour, leave, and workforce compliance at leading firms before bringing the work in-house.
In-house operators
Operating experience
Attorneys who have run employment legal inside real companies, sitting with HR and leadership through hiring pushes, reorganizations, and hard conversations.
Compensation-fluent
Equity & incentives
Attorneys who design and paper equity and incentive programs. They know where the tax and securities tripwires are.
- First hire through full HR build-out
- Equity-comp fluent
- Multi-state compliant
Your team is matched to your business, industry, and stage at kickoff.
Proven workflows, forms, and policies, tailored to your business.
You don't just get a top legal team. You get a top legal system, so your business never has to reinvent the wheel.
Employment workflows
Repeatable processes for hiring, onboarding, granting equity, and separating, so each one follows the same compliant path every time.
Forms & templates
A current library of offers, agreements, policies, and grant paperwork, tailored to your states, your roles, and your stage.
The compliance calendar
Policy review cycles, training requirements, reporting deadlines, and state law changes tracked on your dashboard and handled before they bite.
Every business deserves adequate legal coverage.
Within six weeks, every person who works for you will be properly papered, classified, and covered, and you'll see it on your dashboard.
Our SuperCounsel Promise
Within six weeks of engaging SuperCounsel, you will have more confidence, peace of mind, and insight into the legal side of your business than ever before.
31-Day Continual Money-Back Guarantee
If at any point you are unsatisfied with your service and decide to cancel, we will refund the entirety of your last month's subscription fee, no questions asked.
No complicated conditions · No long-term commitments · No unnecessary risk
Questions, answered
Get a free Employment & Incentives assessment
We'll review your workforce documentation, classifications, policies, and incentive arrangements, then show you exactly where you're exposed and how to fix it.
Find out exactly where your business stands. No obligation.