Jennifer Storm Case Summary

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This firm has been retained by Jennifer Storms (“Storms”) in relation to her dispute with M & M Home Contractors, Inc. (“M&M Contractors”), we received your letter dated July 11, 2017, we have also spoken via phone about the issues in dispute. We are writing in hopes of identifying a fair and swift resolution for all parties involved.

FACTS

M&M Contractors hired Storms in 2012 as an employee for five and a half years her responsibilities included providing design, consultation to clients, project management and administrative assistance.

During that time Storms sought to increase her work life balance and provided M&M Contractors with notice on June 28, 2017 of her intent to leave the company.

On June 30, 2017, Storms last day Mike _______ …show more content…

Following her separation from M&M Contractors Storms started her own business, however, former clients became extremely upset and concerned about the status of their construction projects when they were notified that Storms had left the company. Some of these former clients contacted Storms and expressed their desire to only work with her to complete their home projects. These individuals are Liz Gustafson and Amy Teis. Amy agreed to help these individuals complete the design work on their homes. One particular event occurred when Gustafson reached out to Storms about the stairs and flooring in her garage. At that time, none of the details related to the stairs or flooring has been finalized, there were no orders pending at Galaxy flooring. Storms picked out two flooring options and sent them to Liz to approve. Liz made her selection but Storms relayed to her that she would have to go to Galaxy Flooring to obtain information related to pricing and other matters because the extent of her involvement was limited to recommending flooring …show more content…

It is not Storms desire to interfere with M&M Contractors’ contract with Gustafson. Instead, she merely sought to help a friend make design choices. Storms in no way changed any orders with Galaxy Flooring or any other subcontractor. Storms relied upon the request of Ms. Gustafson that she continue to help her complete her home. I believe that there are aligned interest in allowing Storms to continue to providing design consulting services to Gustafson until the project is completed later next week. The client clearly desires to work with Storms. M&M Contractors would benefit from satisfying their clients desire to finish the project with the designer that they have come to trust. M&M Contractors has never disputed the quality of Storms work, should M&M Contractors allow Storms to continue to advise Gustafson that arrangement would terminate upon completion of the

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