Labor and Employment
Our team is highly experienced in providing employment and labor-related dispute and investigative services for our clients. Our experts provide support throughout the litigation and investigation lifecycle, including discovery and data collection; complex data analysis; analysis of mitigation; calculating economic damages including commissions, benefits, pensions, and stock options; providing sound economic analysis consistent with the facts; conducting statistical and econometric analysis; providing expert reports, testimony, and assistance with mediation or settlement in individual, collective and class action cases or investigations involving labor or employment issues including:
- Wrongful termination and constructive discharge
- Whistleblower and retaliation claims
- Breach of non-competition or non-solicitation agreements
- Breach of employment contract
- Opposition to class certification
- Wage and Hour (e.g., misclassification as exempt or as independent contractors, unpaid overtime, rest and meal break violations, tipping violations, improper deductions, inappropriate clock rounding, off-the-clock work such as donning and doffing, minimum wage violations, time shaving, and improper regular rate calculations)
- Sexual or Racial harassment
- Title VII and equivalent state law claims
- Disparate treatment and disparate impact
- Equal Pay
- FCRA claims
- FMLA and other leave claims
- ERISA and employee benefit claims
- Embezzlement and fraud
- Unfair competition and trade secret misappropriation
- Golden Parachute disputes
- Breach of fiduciary duty