Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Support
  Jessica regularly advises clients in all aspects of health and welfare plan compliance. She partners with employers to design and implement comprehensive benefit programs that meet the company’s goals while being compliant with relevant laws. Jessica routinely answers questions related to the Affordable Care Act, HIPAA, and COBRA—both in the context of proactive compliance and in response to participant and government inquiries. In addition, Jessica assists plan administrators with routine plan administration, including evaluating qualified medical child support orders, running annual HIPAA trainings, and assisting with Affordable Care Act reporting.
• Adoption
• Child Abuse

Criminal Law

• Fraud
  Mike Holm is a veteran trial lawyer who represents businesses in bet-the-company cases involving corporate governance issues and other unfair business practices. As lead counsel, Mike has tried over 40 cases involving derivative claims of breach of fiduciary duty, theft of corporate opportunity, business conspiracy, partnership and corporate dissolutions and accounting claims, minority stockholder oppression, interference with contract, conversion of corporate assets, trade secret misappropriation, construction delay claims, environmental regulatory issues, securities fraud, breach of contract, torts and other business related matters. Numerous other litigation matters have included pre-merger shareholder actions, post-merger disputes, civil RICO, federal constitutional claims, federal and state environmental regulations, covenants not to compete, trademark and copyright infringement, and the defense of cases involving violations of the False Claims Act. Most of his cases have been in federal courts, particularly the Eastern District of Virginia or “Rocket Docket” as it is well known.
• Theft
• Assault

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Prior to joining the firm in 2012, Vi practiced for seven years at Hogan Lovells US LLP in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in employee benefits and executive compensation, as well as corporate & securities.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  What Every Seasoned Transactional Health Care Lawyer Should Know about Key Regulatory Elements o fa Health Care Transaction, Part III: Mergers and Acquisitions - Employee Benefits Issues to Consider
• Business Disputes
  Alison focuses her practice on the defense of business and employment claims, as well as providing strategic and legal counseling to both public and private employers. She has experience litigating a variety of employment matters, including claims arising under the Family and Medical Leave Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. While she focuses her practice on discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination claims, Alison also litigates complex contract disputes, business torts, and other civil litigation matters in federal and state courts throughout the United States. She also practices before various administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Labor, and the Virginia Employment Commission. In addition to her litigation practice, Alison regularly drafts and reviews employee handbooks and policies, employment agreements, severance agreements, and settlement agreements.
• Business Transactions
  Andrea regularly advises clients on a broad spectrum of employee benefits matters, including retirement plans, health and welfare plans, equity programs, and executive compensation arrangements. She designs and drafts plan documents, summary plan descriptions, legally-required notices and policies, open enrollment materials, and other employee communications that are key to the successful implementation of these benefit plans under ERISA, the Affordable Care Act, and other relevant laws. In addition, Andrea provides technical compliance assistance for benefit plans on a wide variety of matters; handles government filings, inquiries, and audits for her clients’ benefit programs; and implements remedial actions under the government’s numerous voluntary corrective action programs for plan errors. Andrea also provides support to her business clients by coordinating benefit claims disputes; assessing and negotiating the employee benefit implications of business transactions (including reductions in force, asset and stock sales, mergers and acquisitions), and negotiating vendor contracts for the support of benefit plan administration.
• Limited Liability Companies
  In addition to his litigation practice, Mike has conducted internal corporate investigations and has represented clients in matters involving the valuation and buyout of minority interests in closely-held corporations and limited liability companies.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
• Unfair Competition
  A past president of the Fairfax Bar Association (1994-95) and the Fairfax Law Foundation (2004-5), Mark is a frequent lecturer and author of written materials on employment law subjects. He is an editor of Employment Law in Virginia, the acknowledged “bible” of sources for the law of the workplace in Virginia, and he is the author of the book’s chapter on Unfair Competition, which deals with covenants not to compete, disloyalty, and theft of trade secrets.

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  Eric’s practice includes general advice and counseling in employment matters, NLRB proceedings, collective bargaining negotiations, and grievance arbitrations. as well as the defense of employment discrimination and sexual harassment suits, ADA and FMLA litigation, wrongful discharge suits, and wage and hour cases. He has particular expertise in public sector labor relations, representing local governments in Maryland and Virginia in collective bargaining negotiations and the drafting of enabling legislation.
• Employment Discrimination
  We are pleased to announce that D. Paul Holdsworth has joined the Firm as an Associate in September 2018. Paul’s practice includes all aspects of employment counseling and litigation, including advising and litigating matters arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act, as well as other employment matters arising under state or common law. Prior to joining Isler Dare, Paul practiced with a mid-sized civil litigation firm in Roanoke, Virginia. Paul graduated from the University of Richmond School of Law in 2015, where he served as Editor-In-Chief of the University of Richmond Law Review, and is admitted to practice in Virginia.
• Employment Contract
  Micah’s practice is primarily focused on the defense of businesses in the litigation of employment and commercial disputes. Micah routinely litigates cases arising under the federal employment statutes, including Title VII, the FMLA, the ADA, the EPA, the ADEA, and the FLSA, as well as cases arising under state law including actions for breach of contract, defamation, duty of loyalty, trade secrets, and enforcement of noncompetition agreements. In addition to employment cases, Micah also litigates cases on behalf of financial institutions including those arising under the UCC, the FCRA, the EFTA, and the FCBA. Micah represents clients in federal and state courts, as well as before administrative agencies such as the EEOC, the Department of Labor, the Virginia Employment Commission, and local human rights commissions. In addition to his litigation practice, Micah provides advice and legal counsel to employers, including the review and drafting of employment policies, noncompetition agreements, separation agreements, and executive employment agreements.
• Employment Litigation
  International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution’s Employment Disputes Panel, and has been mediating with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for over 20 years, where he has the highest success rate of any pro bono mediator in the Commission’s Baltimore Office (click
• Non-compete Agreement
  Founded in 1997 and located in Tysons Corner and Richmond, IslerDare PC is the premier Virginia management labor, employment, and employee benefits boutique firm. Our labor and employment lawyers advise management regarding employment policies, counseling and disciplining employees, and training HR professionals and managers. We represent employers in federal and state court, and in responding to discrimination and harassment claims before the EEOC. We also provide guidance on wage-hour issues (FLSA and SCA), and draft and litigate issues related to non-compete agreements. Our experienced employee benefits attorneys guide companies in all aspects of the laws governing 401(k)s and employee retirement plans, as well as health and welfare plans. Before establishing or joining the firm, most of our partners practiced law with some of the nation’s largest law firms, and we are committed to providing the same quality representation at a reasonable cost.
• Severance Agreement
  24th Annual Employment Law Update: The End of the Road: Current Issues with Severance Agreements, Settlements, and Offers of Judgment
• Sexual Harassment
  The firm’s standard training program for managers consists of a five-hour course, which includes an overview of the current workplace, breakout sessions with a practical hypothetical (“Difficult George”), a summary review of applicable discrimination laws, an introduction to the ADA and FMLA, a review of sexual harassment principles and procedures, and the firm’s Top 10 Rules for Managing and Counseling Employees.

Property Law

• Construction Litigation
• Easement
• Land Use and Zoning

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law
  Vi counsels publicly-traded and private company clients in areas of employee benefits and executive compensation for compliance with ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code. She has extensive experience with tax-qualified retirement plans, health and welfare plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, and equity compensation plans, including employee stock purchase plans, stock option plans, stock appreciation rights, and synthetic (phantom) equity arrangements. Vi prepares executive employment agreements, separation agreements, change in control agreements, severance plans and consulting agreements. She also has expertise with employee benefits matters arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions, including the negotiation and drafting of stock and asset purchase agreements and golden parachute tax issues.