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Don’t Sign the Severance Until You’ve Checked These Things
After a layoff or firing, a separation package arrives with money, a release, ongoing obligations, and a clock. Here’s what to check—including an honest present-value look at any claims—before you negotiate, sign, or fight, and how Cloud Counsel helps.
How to Get Offered Contingent-Fee Representation
We take contingency-fee employment cases in Virginia and nationally for federal claims. Here is how to build a Cloud Counsel case file, apply in-app, and show the good-faith claim and damages underwriting needs — without buying a yes.
You’re Out—No Severance. Then the Letter Hits.
Laid off with little or no severance, then a new offer — then a cease-and-desist. How Virginians facing restrictive covenants can use Cloud Counsel to get J. Madison PLC counsel involved quickly.
Retaliation Isn’t Always a Firing
Workplace retaliation often starts with exclusion, lost projects, and sudden “performance” paper — not a termination letter. Watch the comic reel, then see Virginia statutes that protect workers who speak up, and how to document the pattern in a free Cloud Counsel case file.
Virginia’s 2026 Noncompete Rules: What Leaving a Job Means for You
As of July 1, 2026, Virginia’s SB 170 can make a noncompete unenforceable after a without-cause firing if disclosed severance was not paid—and SB 128 largely bans new noncompetes for covered health care professionals. Here’s what to check before you turn down the next job.
The VHRA's Two-Year Window and Five-Employee Threshold
Effective July 1, 2026, SB 637 extends the Virginia Human Rights Act complaint deadline from 300 days to two years and lowers the covered-employer threshold from 15 employees to five. Here is what that means for harassment and discrimination claims — and the federal deadline trap you still cannot ignore.