Labor & Employment Attorneys
Our Labor & Employment attorneys advise employers across a broad spectrum of employment matters. We work proactively with business executives, in-house counsel, and human resources managers to address workplace issues before they develop into litigation. When litigation is necessary, we have the experience and resources needed to zealously represent employers in court while driving cost-effective resolutions of employment disputes. We also represent employers in a wide range of employment transactions, and regularly advise them on workplace policies and procedures.
We work with employers in virtually every industry, including health care, real estate, banking, insurance, hospitality, retail, restaurant, construction, and nonprofit. As the largest, Northern Virginia-based, business law firm, we have particularly deep experience in the government contracting and technology sectors.
Our practice areas include:
- Employment discrimination, including Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, USERRA, and state and local human rights acts
- Employment termination, including furloughs, layoffs, and WARN
- Noncompetition, nonsolicitation, nondisclosure, and other employment-based restrictive covenants
- Wage and hour, including FLSA, Service Contract Labor Standards, and state and local wage and hour laws
- Employment agreements, incentive compensation agreements, separation agreements, and commission plans
- Stock options, stock acquisition rights, phantom stock, restricted stock, 409A, Section 457, and other incentive and deferred compensation plans
- Employee handbooks, policies, and related training
- Employment litigation involving discrimination; termination; noncompetition, nonsolicitation, nondisclosure, and other employment-based restrictive covenants; trade secrets; tortious interference, business conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty, and other employment torts; unpaid wages, commissions, and other compensation; overtime; whistleblower; and other employment disputes
Representative Matters
- Defending an 8,000-employee, global logistics company against an Iraq-based, employee defection lawsuit involving multiple noncompetition, tortious interference, and other related claims in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Defending a 65,000-employee, national insurance and financial services company against multiple discrimination and other employment lawsuits in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, and Maryland and Virginia state court
- Defending a New York Stock Exchange-listed, national home builder against multiple discrimination, contract, and other employment lawsuits in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and Maryland state court, and in arbitration
- Defending a NASDAQ-listed, national retail company against multiple discrimination, contract, and other employment lawsuits in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Superior Court of the District of Columbia
- Defending a Northern Virginia-based information technology company against a USERRA lawsuit, including obtaining a defense verdict in a jury trial, in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- Defending a Northern Virginia-based government contractor against a former employee’s FLSA and False Claims Act lawsuit, including obtaining a defense verdict in a multi-day jury trial, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Obtaining summary judgment for a Northern Virginia-based construction company against an FLSA lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Obtaining summary judgment for a Northern Virginia-based construction company against a Title VII lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Defending a Northern Virginia-based government contractor against an employee defection lawsuit involving multiple tortious interference, trade secret, and other related claims in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Defending a Northern Virginia-based restaurant against an FLSA lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Defending a Northern Virginia-based professional services company in a wrongful discharge and breach of contract arbitration
- Representing a Northern Virginia-based software company in a noncompetition, trade secret, tortious interference, and business conspiracy lawsuit against its former chief technology officer and other former employees in Virginia state court
- Representing a New York Stock Exchange-listed, national payment processing company on the employment aspects of its acquisition of a New York-based payroll processing company
- Representing a Northern Virginia-based airport security company in a Service Contract Labor Standards audit by the United States Department of Labor
- Representing a Northern Virginia-based restaurant group in a wage and hour audit by the United States Department of Labor
- Representing a mid-Atlantic-based healthcare company in an affirmative action and equal employment opportunity practices audit by the United States Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
