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description: The relationships between a company and its executives are critical to its business and culture.
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Executive Employment Counsel

### The relationships between a company and its owners, directors and executives are critical to their liability, livelihoods, and reputations.

### Those relationships are the exclusive focus of Bertram LLP.

#### We represent employers, owners, directors and executives in their most significant employment matters—the ones that cause the **greatest disruption.**

#### **For executives, directors and owners, **we advise on contractual matters as well as disputes, with all the sophistication and independence of counsel across the table, if not more.

#### **For boards and employers,** we provide a strategic partner deeply experienced in counseling, investigations, litigation, and other sensitive employment matters.

#### **No matter what role we serve, we are driven ****solely by our clients' needs and goals.**

#### We are not burdened by conflicts that can restrict larger firms and make clients question the loyalties of their counsel.

#### We offer instead a partner proven in bringing order to the legal, business, and reputational issues that arise from executive, director and ownership disputes.

# Executive Employment Counsel

### The relationships between a company and its owners, directors and executives are critical to their liability, livelihoods, and reputations.

### Those relationships are the exclusive focus of Bertram LLP.

#### We represent employers, owners, directors and executives in their most significant employment matters—the ones that cause the **greatest disruption.**

#### **For executives, directors and owners, **we advise on contractual matters as well as disputes, with all the sophistication and independence of counsel across the table, if not more.

#### **For boards and employers,** we provide a strategic partner deeply experienced in counseling, investigations, litigation, and other sensitive employment matters.

#### **No matter what role we serve, we are driven ****solely by our clients' needs and goals.**

#### We are not burdened by conflicts that can restrict larger firms and make clients question the loyalties of their counsel.

#### We offer instead a partner proven in bringing order to the legal, business, and reputational issues that arise from executive, director and ownership disputes.

## Meet the Team

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[### Connie Bertram

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[### Dr. Andrew Vogelsang

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[### Kelly Kosmin

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[### Missy Rypkema

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## Awards & Distinctions

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 Chambers USA: District of Columbia: Labor and Employment

#### 2009 - 2022

 “National Litigation Star” and “National Labor & Employment Star,” Benchmark”

#### 2022

 “Top 250 Women in Litigation,” Benchmark Litigation

#### 2019 - 2022

 Washington, DC Super Lawyers

#### 2008 - 2022

 The Legal 500 United States: Labor and Employment

#### 2013 - 2018