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Employment Law Representative Experience Examples of our
employment law experience include:
- Drafting employee handbooks for companies with as few as several
employees to as many as thousands of employees
- Establishing drug-testing policies for public and private employers
- Performing extensive investigations for companies with employees
accused of harassment, misconduct or conflict of interest
- Negotiating and drafting employment agreements, deferred compensation agreements,
and severance agreements for businesses with senior-level executives
- Counseling companies on compliance with the American with Disabilities
Act
Employment Litigation Representative Experience
Examples of our recent employment litigation experience include:
- Serving as trial counsel, representing private and public employers
in defense of employment litigation including claims for sexual harassment,
wrongful termination in violation of public policy, retaliation, breach
of employment contract, fraud, defamation and various claims of discrimination.
- Successfully defending employers in state and federal court on the
"reasonable accommodation" of disabled workers and compliance
with state and federal access law.
- Successfully defending a university in federal court on the accommodation
of learning disabled medical students, setting national precedent.
- Representing employers in state and national wage and hour class
action claims for unpaid overtime.
- Serving as lead counsel to obtain a Temporary Restraining Order
and Preliminary Injunction against former employees of client who
misappropriated property and trade secrets.
- Serving as lead counsel in the defense against a malicious prosecution
claim related to employee termination and subsequent prosecution.
- Representing employer in action against former employee for breach
of contract regarding misappropriation of trade secrets, property
and improper solicitation of employees.
- Serving as lead counsel to defend an employer from Employment Development
Department tax assessment based upon claimed improper classification
of employees as independent contractors.
- Defending employers before the Labor Commissioner, the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commissioner, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing,
the U.S. Attorney General, the U.S. Department of Education and other
agencies.
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