Labor & Employment

When a client must litigate work-related lawsuits or administrative claims, our team is ready to facilitate internal investigation of the legal issues, formulate a strategy to proceed, and aggressively fight for the best possible result. We have successfully handled claims involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, breach of contract, FMLA/FLSA violations (e.g., overtime), and other employment matters.

We routinely assist clients through DOL wage and hour investigations and represent clients before the EEOC. We also counsel and work with clients on complex disability and reasonable accommodation issues under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

We help clients with allegations of taking trade secrets and enforcing non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements. We have vast experience in handling claims for injunctions in these matters. Our attorneys frequently present and author publications on employment law issues.

Examples of our experience include:

• A jury verdict in Harris County, Texas, ruled in favor of the client, a large oil and gas company, against a business broker seeking a fee.
• The jury verdict in Harris County, Texas, ruled in favor of a chemical company on an age discrimination claim.
• The jury verdict in Billings, Montana, favored the client on a wrongful termination claim.
• We assisted in directing the verdict in Jackson, Mississippi, in favor of the client on a wrongful termination claim.
• The jury verdict in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida ruled in favor of the client construction company on a claim of race discrimination and retaliatory discharge.
• The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the jury verdict against a third-party administrator who mishandled COBRA coverage benefits for corporate clients.
• A summary judgment of $722,938.64 was ruled in favor of the firm’s client for the breach of an executive employment agreement in Harris County, Texas.
• We helped establish a new law under the WARN Act in favor of a client company.
• We helped a Texas-based large staffing company obtain indemnification from a third party in the FLSA overtime suit.
• We facilitated numerous favorable EEOC and related state-agency findings on complex claims of alleged employer discrimination, sexual harassment, ADA violation, and other employment-related claims across the United States.