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Employment Litigation

The Employment Litigation Practice Group represents employers in all aspects of employment, labor, employee benefits, and occupational injury law. Group lawyers routinely work with clients’ management teams to craft forward-thinking solutions to management issues as well as handle adversarial matters in industries such as manufacturing, education, health care, construction, and natural resources.

Representative Experience

  • Litigated several multi-million dollar discrimination lawsuits involving known government contractor
  • Represented major hotel before the WV Supreme Court of Appeals and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on issues relating to wrongful discharge and federal labor relations
  • Represented numerous clients in actions before the West Virginia Human Rights Commission, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and other state human rights commissions on behalf of employers
  • Negotiated pre-suit settlements for clients in sensitive employment matters
  • Defended numerous charges before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, West Virginia Human Rights Commission and Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, alleging race, age, sex, sexual preference, disability and national origin discrimination.
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The firm's broad-based employment litigation practice includes the following:
  • Employment-related counseling 
  • Litigating employment-related disputes in state and federal court 
  • Handling wrongful discharge cases before state and federal agencies 
  • Handling both representation and unfair labor practice proceedings before the NLRB 
  • Negotiating collective bargaining agreements 
  • Arbitrating contractual disputes 
  • Providing employee benefits advice and litigation services

Our litigators have particular experience dealing with the following:

  • Employment discrimination
  • Retaliatory discharge
  • Breach of contract
  • Sexual harassment
  • Covenants not to compete
  • Employee benefits
  • FLSA
  • Challenging and defending arbitration awards
  • Tort theories 
  • FMLA 
  • Injunctions under state and federal law
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