General Employment Litigation

Overview

When it comes to litigation, our primary objectives mirror those of our clients: to quickly and efficiently achieve the best possible result. Our clients and their executives rely on Jackson Lewis attorneys to deliver business insight, legal acumen, and trial skills to navigate employment litigation and develop response strategies. By partnering with Jackson Lewis, our clients are able to remain focused on their day-to-day business goals while our lawyers do the heavy lifting.

Personal and Ongoing Dialogue with Our Clients
We understand that effective communication leads to informed collaboration and efficiency, and have made a conscious deliberate choice to be where our clients operate, work, and live to ensure personal and in-person communication even in the current digital age. Jackson Lewis has litigators in each of our 58 offices throughout the United States, and we are committed to providing opportunities for both formal and informal client feedback and conducting annual planning meetings with each of our clients.

National Workplace Law Knowledge
Jackson Lewis has made a substantial investment to capture and re-use our unique national workplace law knowledge for the benefit of our clients, enhancing the quality of our practice and minimizing the costs of our services. We leverage our breadth of national and regional workplace law knowledge through three approaches: customized automated knowledge management solutions, a dedicated team of professionals maintaining our internal Workplace Law InfoCenter, and designated attorneys who focus their practice on specific areas of employment and electronic discovery law.

Experience

The majority of our attorneys devote their practice solely to defending management in employment-related lawsuits. We are well-equipped to assist you with:

Litigating individual and class action employment cases in state and federal courts, including cases involving discrimination, harassment and retaliation allegations, defamation claims, whistle blower claims, employee privacy issues, medical leave issues, disability accommodations, qui tam actions, and wage and hour violations
Handling administrative charges before state and federal agencies
Handling private arbitration hearings and proceedings, and ensuring that arbitration provisions are enforced and respected
Protecting employers' confidential and proprietary information, trade secrets and business relationships from misuse, interference, and violations of non-compete agreements
Maintaining actions on behalf of employers arising from fraud, theft and other related misconduct
Conducting independent investigations of allegations of inappropriate employee behavior running the gamut of workplace issues including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and improper business practices (such as issues arising under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act)
Handling trials and appeals in state and federal courts, where previous counsel failed to achieve satisfactory results
Training management, human resources professionals, and staff on all aspects of workplace law
Advising management on all aspects of workplace law, including compliance with local, state, and federal statutes, adverse employment actions, terminations, coaching, separation agreements, employee handbooks and related issues

Trials

From high-stakes class actions and multi-jurisdictional cases, to single-plaintiff wrongful discharge and discrimination claims, our deep bench of seasoned trial lawyers have obtained favorable verdicts in hundreds of cases throughout the United States. Our trial lawyers are well-equipped to present any case in a manner persuasive to judges and juries. By way of example, some of our recent trial wins include:

Fortune 500 technology company accused of disability discrimination and fraud
Fortune 500 hotel chain accused of violating employment agreement and the FMLA
Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company accused of gender and pregnancy discrimination
Property management company accused of gender discrimination and retaliation
Technology company accused of wrongful-termination, breach of oral contract, and fraud
College accused of violating Title IX and for breach of contract
Hospital accused of disability discrimination in violation of federal law
Public university accused of improper denial-of-tenure by university professor
Major hospital and medical center accused of race discrimination
Major industrial gas company accused of wage-and-hour violations
Mid-size brewery accused of misclassifying employees, in violation of the FLSA
Major U.S. bank and financial services company accused of race and age discrimination
Large payroll company seeking to enforce an arbitration agreement
Construction company accused of disability discrimination and whistleblower retaliation
Supermarket chain accused of national origin discrimination and retaliation
Casino accused of improperly compensating employees
Auto dealership accused of wrongful termination and defamation

E-Discovery

Jackson Lewis has the expertise and personnel necessary to guide clients through all types of electronic discovery projects, including the most complex. At all times, we are focused on developing bottom-line driven best practices that serve the special discovery needs and burdens of employment litigation. We believe that effective planning, e-discovery budgeting, and management are key components of the discovery process, and we work with clients to estimate and project costs and to develop proactive case strategies. Our goal is to satisfy all document retention and production obligations without imposing an undue burden on our clients.

We are a leader in the outsourcing of traditional internal e-discovery litigation support services and are able to provide clients with extremely competitive pricing and access to the latest software, data processing, hosting, security, forensics, production, and project management services. Our innovative outsourcing program focuses on technology, cybersecurity and the protection of client data.
Our e-discovery team maintains attorney liaisons in every office and has vast experience with best practices in all service areas, including the use of advanced technologies such as predictive coding to improve the quality of large-scale document reviews and contain costs within proportionate limits.
For more information about our e-Discovery team and the many ways in which the team is operating at the forefront of the e-discovery field, please download the e-Discovery brochure.

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