Employment Law
Built for the Business
You’re Building
Tavola is a boutique employment law firm serving mid-market businesses and C-suite executives who are building the future of their industries. Sophisticated counsel. Bespoke engagements. No templates.
À Tavola
In Italy, an invitation to the table is both simple and absolute. À Tavola. Come to the one I have prepared for you.
At Tavola, that phrase carries a specific weight.
It is not about waiting to be invited. It is about building the table yourself, on your terms, with the legal and strategic foundation that makes it last.
The leaders we serve are already doing that. They are not asking for permission to reimagine their industries. They are doing it. What they need is a law firm that can move with them: one that understands the legal terrain of the future they are building, not just the compliance requirements of the past.
Tavola was built to be that firm.
This Firm Was Built for You
You are a C-suite executive, a founder, or a mid-market business owner who has already done the hard work of building something real. Your business is established, funded, and operating at a level where the legal decisions you make carry genuine consequences.
You are not interested in the way professional services has always been done. You have watched industries get disrupted, and in many cases, you are the one disrupting them. You understand that the best legal counsel is not a cost center. It is a competitive advantage.
You are also clear-eyed enough to know that the employment infrastructure beneath your business needs to be as sophisticated as the vision above it. Compliance is not optional. Risk is not theoretical. The employment law decisions you make today will either support or constrain what you are building tomorrow.
Tavola works with the leaders who understand all of that. If that is you, you are in the right place.
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Mid-Market Services
Your business is moving fast. Your employment law infrastructure needs to move with it. Tavola advises mid-market businesses on compliance, workforce strategy, classification, RIF planning, and the full arc of employment risk. We know how large organizations operate because we have worked inside them. That knowledge is what we bring to the businesses building toward that scale.
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Enterprise Services
Large organizations carry large employment law exposure. Tavola works with enterprise clients that need outside counsel with the clarity to see what internal teams cannot: an attorney-led perspective unencumbered by organizational politics, grounded in nearly two decades of experience working inside and alongside large organizations.
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For Executives
When your exit, your separation, or your next chapter is at stake, the counsel you retain changes everything. Tavola advises senior executives navigating involuntary separations and strategic exits with the legal precision and quiet confidence that these moments demand.
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For Creatives
Tavola represents serious, successful creatives who are navigating the legal dimensions of a business at scale: brand partnerships, long-term sponsorships, industry-bending collaborations, and the complex, multi-layered agreements that define what the next chapter of your work looks like and who profits from it.
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Business Consulting
You see revenue opportunities that do not exist yet. Tavola’s consulting practice helps you design, structure, and launch them with the rigor of a legal strategist and the creativity of someone who has helped forward-thinking businesses reimagine what they are worth. No templates. No recycled frameworks.
How Tavola Works
Every engagement is bespoke: built from scratch around your specific situation, objectives, and risk profile.
We do not begin with a template and adjust it for you. We begin with you.
Before any work begins, you will know exactly what the engagement covers and what to expect on investment. Tavola provides an honest, experience-based range at the outset. As your matter develops, you will hear from us proactively, not reactively.
Featured Offering
Employment Practices Audit
For established mid-market businesses that have built employment systems and know those systems carry risk.
The Employment Practices Audit is a comprehensive, attorney-led review of your employment framework: compliance, classification, policy, wage and hour exposure, and the gaps that grow quietly when a business scales faster than its infrastructure.
This is not remediation. It is strategy. The businesses that commission this work are the ones that want to know where they stand before they have to.
Transparent by Design
You have built something real, and you know that the counsel protecting it needs to be equally serious.
Tavola works on a structured engagement model: every matter is scoped before work begins, investment is discussed openly and honestly at the outset, and you will always know where you stand.
If your matter is evolving in a direction that affects scope or investment, you will hear about it from us before it becomes a question. This is what it looks like to work with a firm that respects both your time and your intelligence.
Frequently
Asked Questions
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Tavola is a boutique employment law firm and strategic consultancy. The practice is built for mid-market businesses and senior executives who need sophisticated employment law counsel alongside the strategic intelligence to deploy it well. Employment law is what we do, and we do it at the level that forward-thinking businesses require.
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Employment law, in full. Compliance and classification, workforce scaling, reductions in force, executive separations, employment agreements, wage and hour, handbook development, and employment practices audits. Tavola also offers business consulting for clients who need strategic counsel alongside their legal work. The practice brings nearly twenty years of experience on both sides of the employment relationship: inside large organizations and across from them.
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Yes. Ongoing retainer engagements are available for clients whose businesses require consistent legal counsel. The scope and structure of those arrangements are defined at the outset and revisited as your needs evolve.
In Their Words
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“What I appreciate most is that the time is taken to truly learn about you: your vision, your values, and what genuinely excites you about your work.”
— Cheryl Norris | Food Blogger and Photographer, Bakes by Brown Sugar
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“The guidance provided has had a lasting impact on my business. I am still drawing on what we built together, and I continue to seek that counsel.”
— Oby Otti | Owner, The Cake Lady
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“She has a rare ability to turn complex employment issues into opportunities for clarity and alignment.”
— Martin Shepherd | Attorney, Mavacy PLLC
Contact us
Your Table Is Waiting
Every Tavola engagement begins with a single conversation. Tell us about your business and what you are navigating. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right firm for it.