Bala Cynwyd is a Lower Merion Township community directly across City Line Avenue from Philadelphia, with a concentrated office corridor along that boundary. Plenty of people working in those offices live in the city, cross a single street to get to work, and reasonably assume their employment situation is a Philadelphia matter. It is not. The address governs, and an office on the Bala Cynwyd side sits in Montgomery County. That distinction only becomes important when something goes wrong, but then it becomes important immediately. Office corridor employment tends to produce disputes over documented terminations, severance terms presented with pressure to sign quickly, and treatment that changed after someone reported discrimination or harassment. If you are looking at a separation agreement or a sudden shift in how you are managed, it is worth understanding your position before responding.
Because Bala Cynwyd is part of Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County, employment matters arising here proceed in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas in Norristown rather than at Philadelphia's City Hall, however short the walk across City Line Avenue may be. Federal claims are filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which covers both sides of that line. Employees who assumed otherwise sometimes lose time correcting course, and the administrative route through the EEOC or the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission usually comes first in any event. Getting the jurisdiction right at the outset is simply part of doing the thing properly.
The corridor's concentration of office employment gives its disputes a particular shape. Roles here are salaried and professional, exits are papered, and the reason offered for a departure is drafted carefully rather than blurted out. That care leaves a record, and records can be compared against each other. A performance concern that appears for the first time weeks after an internal complaint, an improvement plan issued to one employee and not to comparable colleagues, or a severance offer that arrives with unusual urgency all tell you something. None of them is conclusive alone. Together they often describe a decision that was made first and justified afterward.
For Bala Cynwyd clients specifically, our employment work most often covers: Workplace Discrimination Lawyers, Workplace Sexual Harassment Lawyers, Wrongful Termination Attorneys, Hostile Work Environment Attorneys, Racial Discrimination Lawyers, Religious Discrimination Attorneys, Workplace Retaliation Lawyers, Sexual Orientation Discrimination Lawyers and Whistle Blower Protection Lawyers. Whichever of these brings you to us, the same firm-wide approach applies: you work directly with our attorneys and paralegals, the initial case review is free and confidential, and we prepare from day one as if the matter is going to trial.
