About

Efrat Deutsch & Co., Law Firm is a leading boutique law firm that was founded in 2008 by Adv. Efrat Deutsch, which specializes in labor law, with a particular specialization regarding the representation of public companies, international companies, employers in the hi-tech, food, industry, retail, services, and fashion sectors and public benefit organizations. The firm also represents global companies with operations in Israel and is very active in handling labor law class actions.

The boutique firm, which represents mainly employers as it focuses exclusively in labor law, is renowned for its expertise and professional excellence in its field of expertise. The firm provides outstanding legal services while implementing out-of-the-box thinking and remaining constantly abreast of economic and social trends in Israel and abroad that affect the labor law field.

The firm provides a comprehensive array of labor law legal services, including ongoing counsel, accompanying employers in collective and personal labor relations, accompanying collective negotiations, managing legal proceedings in the courts, drafting collective and personal employment agreements, providing legal counsel, preparing legal opinions and more. The firm specializes in accompanying and managing complex organizational change processes and collective processes throughout the entire proceeding, from initial organization stages, through negotiations and up to the drafting of collective agreements.

The firm’s longstanding clients benefit from its unique strength, that stems from the familiarity with accompanying employers in every aspect of negotiations vis-à-vis unions, implementation of the agreements and amendments thereof over the years. The firm includes top lawyers with extensive experience, whose expertise creates a professional synergy that provides added value to its clients.

The firm maintains vast operations vis-à-vis government agencies, including the Ministry of Economy and Commerce, as well as the Supervisor of Work and Rest Hours. The firm is entrusted with filing unique applications, including to the Supervisor of the Women Employment Law, and, due to its expertise, also accompanies employers in handling sexual harassment complaints, in training employees and managers on matters on hiring, termination, hearings, sexual harassments, etc.

Practice Areas

Ongoing Legal Counsel and Assistance to Employers

 Efrat Deutsch & Co. specializes in labor relations, including counsel on hiring processes, employment agreements, labor-related issues and employment termination proceedings, and it practices collective labor relations in matters regarding management of collective negotiations, counsel on issues that arise in the employment relations and counsel about labor disputes and strikes. The firm accompanies employers in processes of reorganization, downsizing and in labor aspects of various transactions, and accompanies employers in complex corporate change processes such as acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations and downsizing, including vis-à-vis external entities such as various government agencies.

Efrat Deutsch & Co. guides and assists employers regarding individual and collective employment termination proceedings, in hearing proceedings, retirement agreements for executives and protection of the employer’s rights and property following work relations termination, as well as regarding equality laws, and provides legal counsel regarding the laws aimed at promoting equality and preventing workplace discrimination.

Efrat Deutsch & Co. specializes in protecting trade secrets and non-compete clauses, counsels its clients on matters of the freedom to choose an occupation, protecting the employer’s intellectual property and trade secrets, drafting agreements, termination of work relations and management of legal proceedings on matters of the freedom to choose an occupation, as well as protection of the corporation’s property.

Negotiations, Contracts and Agreements

The firm provides professional legal services regarding negotiations and agreements and accompanies its clients in their negotiations on work relations and in drafting agreements, including employment agreements, non-disclosure agreements, noncompete agreements and protection of intellectual property, retirement agreements, work termination agreements, collective agreements and more. Efrat Deutsch & Co. also manages contracts with service contractors, HR contractors and outsourcing, and advises its clients on contracts with external contractors such as contracting with service contractors, manpower companies, placement companies, as well as independent external contractors.

Representation In Legal Proceedings and Before Government Ministries

The firm provides its clients with representations in the regional labor courts, the national labor court in Jerusalem, and in Israel’s High Court of Justice, as well as in arbitrations, work councils and mediations. Efrat Deutsch & Co. specializes in advising and representing employers in labor courts when they defend against class actions.

The firm obtains, inter alia, permits from the Ministry of Economy and Commerce and the Ministry of Interior and is entrusted with obtaining special approvals from the Supervisor of Labor Relations in the Ministry of Economy and Commerce, permits for working overtime hours, permits from the Supervision of Women Employment at the Ministry of Economy and Commerce and employment permits for foreign experts from the Ministry of Interior. Moreover, the firm handles administrative and criminal proceedings, represents employers before the enforcement authorities regarding financial sanctions proceedings and represents employers and office holders in criminal proceedings in the labor courts.

Management of Collective Negotiations

The firm provides unrivaled legal services regarding the initial organization and assistance in collective negotiations, accompanies and represents its clients in collective negotiations during the initial stage and towards the signing of a first collective agreement. Efrat Deutsch & Co. continues to provide services to its clients in negotiations on later collective agreements and counsels and guides its clients regarding the proper conduct during the initial stage of the workers’ unionization.

Pro Bono

Efrat Deutsch & Co. Law Firm engages in ongoing and intensive pro bono activity and was recently recognized as a leading firm for its contribution to the community. The firm takes upon itself representation in cases of discriminated populations.