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Hospitality & Services Industry Lawyers

Rogoway’s extensive and multifaceted transactional, brand and intellectual property, labor and employment, real estate, and dispute experience is applied to counsel businesses in the hospitality, beverage, food, service and restaurant industries where our attorneys represent hotels, bars, restaurants, clubs, property management companies, and other similar businesses who face a range of legal and business issues. Our hospitality industry attorneys are here to help you foresee and mitigate challenges and risks of liabilities so that you can focus on running a successful business for your employees and customers.

Our multidisciplinary approach allows us to assist our hospitality, service, and leisure clients with the following practice areas:

Labor and Employment

We assist our clients in onboarding (offer letters and employment and consulting agreements), compensation and benefits matters, disciplinary matters, terminations and separations, operational and control matters, management and governance, employee handbooks, legally required policies, standard operating procedures, and best practices, discrimination and retaliation complaints, labor commissioner investigations and hearings, labor peace agreements, unionization and collective bargaining, wage, and hour law, lay-offs, OSHA compliance, and other risk management.

Litigation

We represent our clients in commercial, consumer, and employment lawsuits, pre-litigation, and other disputes regarding employment, partnerships, lease or landlord matters, actions involving investors, contract disputes, and intellectual property matters.

We have a proven track record of success across matters from pre-litigation negotiation to mediation, arbitration, ongoing litigation, appeals, or a combination of the above.

Corporate and Transactional

Rogoway’s corporate attorneys work with our clients on a wide spectrum of matters including formation, financings, various transactions, commercial agreements (including vendor, supplier, marketing, manufacturing, and partnership agreements), business sales and acquisitions (mergers and acquisitions, and asset sales and purchases), acqui-hiring matters (acquiring employee workforces through acquisition) and intellectual property (IP), brand protection and IP licensing.

Intellectual Property

We are experts in the enforcement of brand protection strategies, trademark clearance, registration, and prosecution, trade secrets, trade dress, copyright protection, proprietary matters, terms of use, and website privacy and terms of use and data policies.

We can help ensure businesses in the hospitality industry have appropriate protections in place, including in their employee policies and handbooks and confidentiality agreements, as well as non-disclosure agreements between businesses and vendors.

Regulatory

Our regulatory attorneys are experts in a variety of areas, from food and beverage to general regulatory compliance and OSHA, cannabis, hemp, and workforce regulations, where we assist our clients through strategic advising, crisis management, business permitting and licensure, audit matters, regulatory inspections, trainings, illness and injury prevention, operating procedures and best practices.

Real Estate

Rogoway attorneys represent our clients in commercial leases and commercial property acquisitions and sales, land use and zoning matters, construction matters and development agreements, and CEQA and other environmental-related, business-related and regulatory-related matters.

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* Rogoway Law Group, P.C. and Rogoway Law N.W. P.C. are part of the Rogoway Group, a Swiss Verein.