Overview

Alix Rubin helps employers and employees resolve disputes efficiently, while minimizing disruption to their businesses and personal lives. A proactive lawyer, Alix is deeply knowledgeable about the most recent employment practices available to companies. She counsels clients on policies and contracts that help prevent lawsuits whenever possible. Should employee misconduct be suspected, she performs internal workplace investigations. And should litigation be necessary, Alix is experienced in representing both employers and employees, resolving disputes related to discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblowing, employee classification, wage and hour, reductions in force, restrictive covenants, family and medical leave and other workplace accommodations. In addition to being a trusted employment counselor and litigator, Alix serves as a mediator, resolving disputes as a neutral party.

Collaborating with other attorneys at PELG, Alix is deeply involved in employment matters related to mergers & acquisitions. When companies are sold, Alix helps C-suite executives and entrepreneurs craft and negotiate their employment and separation agreements to assist in the smooth transition of their roles under new ownership.

Alix’s well-rounded counseling and litigation practice includes:

• Pandemic protection methods in the workplace
• Employment compliance
• Employment contracts of all kinds
• Employee handbooks and policies
• Employment litigation including claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation and other wrongdoing
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and other reasonable accommodations
• Investigations
• Reductions in force
• Restrictive covenants, including non-competes and other agreements

Prior to affiliating with the firm, Alix was a partner with a boutique litigation firm handling a range of disputes related to the employer-employee relationship. She also worked for a workplace investigations company conducting independent, unbiased and factual investigations into employer claims of wrongdoing. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Alix worked in public relations and journalism.

Representative Experience

• Advises employers handling employee relations matters of all kinds.
• Conducts investigations into allegations of workplace discrimination and harassment of all kinds.
• Advises management on employment policies, employee handbooks, severance agreements, employment agreements and non-competition agreements.
• Represents employers in connection with allegations of wrongdoing, wage and hour issues, and claims of wrongful termination.
• Advises employers in connection with reductions in force.

Speaking Engagements

Alix is invited to speak on a range of legal issues. Some of the organizations and platforms she presents before include:

• Commerce & Industry Association of New Jersey
• Leadership Live
• Morris County Chamber of Commerce
• North Essex Chamber of Commerce
• ProLaw CLE
• Outplacement Companies
• Wharton Alumni Club of New Jersey

Community & Professional Involvement

• Volunteer Lawyers for Justice
  • Current volunteer since inception of organization
  • Former member of the Board of Trustees
• Wharton Alumni Club of New Jersey
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Awards & Recognition

• Supreme Court of New Jersey, Appointed Mediator
• New Jersey Super Lawyers ®
• Volunteer Lawyers for Justice Attorney of the Year

Prior Work Experience

• Entwistle & Cappucci
• Lowenstein Sandler
• Hannoch Weisman