After graduating with a B.A. in English Literature and working as a locally-owned restaurant General Manager for years, Casey Martens pursued her J.D. to both counsel small businesses about their employment practices and litigate individuals’ employment claims. With a decade of small-business restaurant management to draw on, Casey recognizes the realities and challenges that employers and employees face in small business settings. Her tenure in the food, beverage and hospitality industries gives her a uniquely informed view of how to best structure and implement preventative measures such as policies, procedures, and employee manuals. Casey is adept at knowing how to approach social issues, like sexual harassment and racial discrimination, as well as financial issues, like non-payment of wages and overtime. Casey served both as an intern and a paralegal in a wide variety of legal areas — from product liability to probate — from the SC Department of Health and Environment to the US District Court for the District of South Carolina — before joining MHC Law and the Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm.
Employment law counseling and compliance, Employee investigations, Wage and hour disputes, Business disputes and litigation, Contracts, Trademark analysis and registration