Businesses in the hospitality industry contend with an ever-changing legal landscape at the federal, state and local level, including recent developments impacting a wide range of workplace law issues, violations, transactional matters and safety mandates.

Technological innovations such as artificial intelligence and mobile applications have substantially expanded the menu of offerings that hospitality businesses can provide to their customers. Despite these burgeoning advancements, changes in immigration policy, labor shortages, complex wage and hour laws, and other workplace issues can create operational and legal challenges for hospitality businesses. At the same time, the hospitality industry remains vulnerable to external threats like political instability, fluctuations in market demand, and environmental change.

With experience advising restaurant corporations, hotels, casinos, gaming and other resort destinations, gyms, cruise lines, caterers and liquor stores across the country, we understand the competitive demands on hospitality businesses and provide solutions that help our clients best serve consumers. In addition to our firm-wide hospitality practice and national hospitality industry association involvement, several of our offices have formed relationships with their local hospitality industry associations.

Our hospitality team encompasses both labor and employment law practitioners and attorneys firm-wide with extensive knowledge of federal, state, and local laws and regulatory concerns that impact hospitality business operations. We also leverage our international capabilities to further our knowledge of the global environment in which our clients manage their operations.