Why Us?

At Ascent Employment Law, we bring intelligent, practical employment law solutions to your HR challenges. With more than 50 combined years of employment law expertise from large law firms, our attorneys tailor their day-to-day advice and litigation strategies to meet your organization’s unique culture and workforce needs. Ascent’s top priority is to offer exceptional, cost-effective legal services so that our clients can focus on their businesses.

What Sets Us Apart

Ascent Employment Law is a women-owned law firm, and we aren’t afraid to get our hands dirty. Our approach with each client is to learn and understand their business operations and goals, as that specific, in-depth knowledge is essential to our ability to serve them. With many clients in highly regulated fields, the Ascent team is more than “office lawyers.” We spend time “in the field” wearing hard hats, steel toe boots and reflective gear, developing knowledge of clients’ operations, and building trust. We know what terms like an assay, muck, and tailings mean. We understand the importance of smart water planning and protection. We appreciate the significance of data security and proper customer communication to our clients in the service industries. We recognize that state-mandated wage and leave of absence requirements may create inconsistencies for multi-state employers. Our decades of experience allows us to provide practical, efficient, and results-oriented legal advice to businesses of all industries and sizes.

Our Service Model

Our service model focuses on three main guiding principles: Flexibility, Teamwork, and Collaboration.

Our mission is goal alignment with our clients to create a partnership, which allows us to be proactive, not just reactive. Our attorneys collaborate to provide the best expertise for the task at hand which, at the firm’s reasonable rates, leads to efficiency in time spent and related cost. We explore options and alternate solutions to each employment scenario so that you have choices about how we proceed. While some issues require a “bet the company” approach, many do not, and we are committed to offering flexible, goal-driven tactics to address our clients’ labor and employment needs.

When you work with one of us, you work with all of us. Because extraordinary client service is paramount, we rely on each other to ensure clients’ needs are timely and appropriately met. We view all of our team members as colleagues and value their contributions. We are “all hands on deck” when necessary. Because we strive to provide each client with exceptional cost-effective service, the firm takes a measured approach to growth to ensure that the firm’s mission is never compromised.
We solicit and welcome questions and thoughts from both colleagues and clients because we are constantly in search for a better way. We enjoy and appreciate the day-to-day interactions and personal relationships with our clients. We are not siloed, like larger law firms. Instead, we collaborate with each other and our clients to reach the most appropriate solution for each employment law challenge.
Our attorneys have successfully litigated employment law cases and arbitrations in jurisdictions across the United States. We pride ourselves on professionalism in tribunals and in our relationships with opposing counsel and believe the best argument is the winning argument under the facts and law. Our team proactively assists our clients with navigating the ever-shifting landscape of employment law compliance in the states where they operate. During our careers, we’ve helped hundreds of companies avoid costly litigation and trained client representatives to spot and address employment law issues before they arise. Minimizing risk and liability for our employer clients underpins all that we do.