Virginia employment law · Federal claims

McLean & Tysons, Virginia·Northern Virginia

McLean & Tysons Employment Lawyer

Since 2014, J. Madison PLC has represented Northern Virginia employees from our office at 1750 Tysons Boulevard — in McLean, at the center of Tysons. If you work anywhere along this corridor — a tower program office, a corporate headquarters, a wealth-management or professional firm, a cleared workplace — and discrimination, retaliation, a denied accommodation, unpaid overtime, or a rushed severance has put your career at risk, we can help. We litigate in Fairfax Circuit Court and the Eastern District of Virginia.

J. Madison PLC is licensed in Virginia. We handle Virginia employment matters statewide and evaluate federal civil-rights and whistleblower claims nationwide. Pure other-state law claims may require local counsel, which you may be able to find through our affiliate network.

How we can help people who work in McLean & Tysons

These are common examples, not a complete list. If what is happening to you looks different, tell us anyway — we will help you figure out whether you have a case.

Executive severance or a contract you should not sign cold

HQ and program-office exits often pack OWBPA deadlines, tax allocation traps, and overbroad releases. We negotiate and draft so the paperwork protects you — not only the employer.

Executive contracts & severance

Whistleblower pressure on a federal contract

Reporting fraud, safety issues, or contract non-compliance should not end a cleared career. We evaluate VWPL, § 2409, and False Claims Act retaliation paths.

Whistleblower practice

Disability accommodation blocked by “policy”

Blanket telework bans and contractor blame-shifting are not the end of the story. We force individualized assessments under the ADA and Virginia law.

Reasonable accommodation

Pregnancy, FMLA, or caregiver leave used against you

Probation extensions, sudden “performance” reviews, and replacement hiring after a leave request are familiar patterns. We map Title VII, FMLA, and PWFA theories early.

Pregnancy discrimination

Misclassified as exempt / unpaid overtime

Dense Tysons workplaces still generate FLSA and Virginia wage claims when titles outrun actual duties. We evaluate collective and individual wage paths.

Wage & hour

Race discrimination or a fabricated pretext

We challenge shifting explanations, selective discipline, and hostile environments with forensic discovery — including digital HR audit trails when employers rewrite the file.

Race discrimination

Something else — start a conflict check and describe it in your own words.

Common workplaces in McLean & Tysons

Defense & government contracting program offices
Corporate headquarters & shared services in the towers
Cybersecurity & cleared workplaces
Wealth management & professional services

Prime and subcontractor teams along the McLean–Tysons corridor
Corporate HQ and shared-services campuses in the skyline
Financial and advisory employers serving the D.C. metro

One office for McLean and Tysons

Principal Attorney Jacob M. Small has practiced employee-side employment and civil-rights litigation from 1750 Tysons Boulevard for more than a decade — the same office whether you call the neighborhood McLean or Tysons. Fairfax Circuit Court, EDVA Alexandria Division (the Rocket Docket), EEOC charge practice, and federal-sector pathways when your workplace is a contractor or agency mission. You can start intake online, and in-person meetings are available at the office.

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Courts and forums McLean and Tysons employees actually use

Disputes from McLean and Tysons workplaces commonly land in Fairfax Circuit Court or the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division. Federal employees and contractors may also face MSPB, OSC, or federal-sector EEO deadlines that private-sector counsel miss. We concentrate on discrimination, retaliatory hostile environments, wrongful termination, whistleblower, wage, accommodation, and federal-employee pathways — not generic HR advice.

MSPB appeals EEOC practice

Clearance-adjacent and contractor workplaces

Many matters here involve security reporting, program offices, and employers tied to federal missions. Those facts often pull in EEOC charges, MSPB routes for civil servants, or contractor whistleblower statutes such as 10 U.S.C. § 2409 — even when the desk sits in Virginia. And when primes and subs each claim someone else “owns” an accommodation or retaliation decision, we apply joint-employer and gatekeeper theories so circular blame does not end the case. We map which statute and which deadline control before the employer's narrative hardens.

Whistleblower & retaliation USERRA

Severance and executive exits at the towers

We negotiate executive and senior-IC separations with the same rigor we bring to litigation: conditional releases, whistleblower carve-outs, neutral references, and tax-aware payment structures. A rushed signature can waive claims you have not yet evaluated.

How to start today

Start a conflict check. If cleared, we create your account so you can begin organizing a privileged chronology in Cloud Counsel before representation is underwritten. Acceptance for contingent-fee or hourly engagement is not guaranteed.

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Why people in McLean & Tysons hire us

For more than a decade, we have protected Northern Virginia employees — never defended employers — from our McLean office. That includes high-stakes litigation against well-resourced institutions and professionals who use money, process, and power to silence workers.

In Burke v. Mattis (E.D. Va. Alexandria Division), a federal jury found a retaliatory hostile work environment after a gender-discrimination complaint, followed by structural injunctive relief and a published fee award. In Keller v. Event Staging (E.D. Va. Norfolk Division), we secured a court-approved wage-and-hour and retaliation resolution built through Cloud Counsel. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes.

We also regularly handle pregnancy and FMLA disputes involving public and private employers, ADA telework and joint-employer contractor fights, race and hostile-environment cases, and complex executive severance and contract negotiations across Fairfax County and the broader NoVA corridor.

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Frequently asked questions

Where is your office?

1750 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 1500, McLean, Virginia 22102 — in the heart of Tysons. We serve clients across Northern Virginia and statewide, and evaluate federal claims nationwide.

How quickly should I act on a severance offer?

OWBPA and other statutes may give you a consideration period — use it. Contact us before you sign a release that extinguishes claims you have not evaluated.

How do I start if I need help this week?

Start a conflict check from this site. If cleared, you can begin building a privileged Cloud Counsel file immediately while we evaluate contingent-fee or hourly representation.

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Start a conflict check. If cleared, we create your account so you can begin building your file.