Susan Llewellyn Deniker
Member, Executive Committee
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
