ClarkDeragon Law PLLC

ClarkDeragon Law, a premier, boutique employment law firm dedicated exclusively to serving businesses in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire is committed to offering value beyond traditional legal services. Founded by Lori Clark and Beth Deragon with a combined 40+ years of employment law experience, ClarkDeragon Law offers high-level, strategic, and value-driven legal services to enable organizations to navigate complex employment law challenges while achieving their business goals and operational realities. The firm identifies and addresses employment legal risks before they escalate into costly disputes or compliance issues, customizes legal services to align with each client’s industry, workforce, and unique challenges, and creates solutions that not only resolve immediate legal issues but also contribute to sustainable business growth and stability.

ClarkDeragon Law specializes in partnering with employers to create legally sound workplaces that foster productivity, equity, and compliance. The firm offers a wide range of services designed to meet the evolving needs of today’s employers:

• Legal Compliance: Advising on federal, state, and local employment laws, handbooks, policies and procedures, wage and hour audits, compensation structures, I-9 compliance, worker classification, independent contractors, and employment agreements and restrictive covenants.

• Employee Relations and Dispute Management: Providing guidance on hiring practices and onboarding, performance management, discipline, and termination, restructuring and layoffs, and severance agreements and separation packages.

• Investigations: Providing investigation services to workplaces and educational institutions into Title VII and Title IX complaints.

• Employment Litigation Defense: Defending businesses in disputes related to discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, wage and hour claims, and other employment matters, with a focus on minimizing disruption and cost.

• Workplace Training and Development: Delivering customized training programs on harassment prevention, anti-discrimination, anti-bullying, civility, and the ethical use of AI in the workplace.

• ADR: Providing mediation services in all areas of the law: employment law, family and divorce matters, business and contract disputes, malpractice, personal injury, and commercial litigation.