
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 and handle adversarial matters in industries such as energy, manufacturing, education, health care, construction, and natural resources
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