Employment law information from laws firm in the Essential package plus these additional law firms...
About the author: Employee Benefits – An Employer's Guide
Ogletree Deakins is one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management in all types of employment-related legal matters. The firm has more than 650 lawyers located in 44 offices across the United States and in Europe. For more than three decades, Ogletree Deakins has offered clients representation in every aspect of labor and employment laws, including business immigration, employee benefits, and workplace safety and health law as well as employment litigation and traditional labor law. The firm represents a diverse range of clients, including more than half of the Fortune 50 corporations in the United States.
Ogletree Deakins was named “Law Firm of the Year” in both the Litigation – Labor & Employment and the Employment Law – Management categories in the 2013 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” list. The firm is proud to have lawyers who are Fellows in the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, and “Leaders in their Field” in Chambers USA. Many of our lawyers are widely published in legal journals, newsletters, trade magazines, and continuing legal education materials, and frequently are asked to speak at seminars and programs throughout the country.
About the author: An Employer’s Guide to FMLA and ADA
About Ford & Harrison LLP
Today organizations must operate in a highly regulated, litigious business climate. However, employers are able to minimize the legal risks involved in making employment decisions without compromising business needs.
Founded in Atlanta in 1978, Ford & Harrison has built a national practice in all aspects of labor and employment law with 18 offices across the country. More than 190 labor and employment lawyers at the firm strive to provide clients with sound legal advice, practical counseling and excellent client service.
Ford & Harrison is committed to providing assistance to employers to allow their management teams to successfully deal with increased litigation, government agency investigations, collective bargaining, or union organizing drives by helping to provide the necessary knowledge and insight to deal with these issues.
We concentrate our practice on all areas related to labor and employment law – including employment litigation and class actions, business immigration and employee benefits – so our clients gain from in-depth legal experience in all facets of these issues. We provide current, relevant information to our clients through a variety of resources, such as our SourceBook, newsletters, seminars and briefings. These resources provide valuable preventive maintenance tools to help clients understand the numerous state and federal labor and employment laws.
About the author: Employment Verification: Immigration, Form I-9, and E-Verify
THE CAVANAGH LAW FIRM was founded in September of 1999 by a core group of attorneys who had been practicing with the 40-year old law firm of O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Killingsworth and Beshears. This select group of attorneys from a number of practice areas shared a vision of forming a firm that would continue to abide by the principles of hard work, quality, integrity and superior client service espoused by the Firm's namesake, Harry Cavanagh. As a group, the attorneys possess a wealth of experience and expertise in their chosen areas of practice. They include bar certified specialists in a variety of practice areas, and a number of firm attorneys have received an AV rating by Martindale Hubbell, the highest such rating available to any individual lawyer, and have been named to Chambers USA, Southwest Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America.
THE CAVANAGH LAW FIRM is committed to excellence in a number of complementary practice areas. These include:
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- ERISA and employee benefits
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- Real estate, including foreclosures and workouts
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- Tax planning and litigation.
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The employment practice of the Cavanagh Law Firm helps clients achieve their business objectives in compliance with the law, thereby avoiding employment claims. In addition to handling all forms of agency and court proceedings, as well as EEOC, ICE, DOL, and OSHA investigations, Cavanagh's employment lawyers team with their clients to draft handbooks and policies, conduct investigations, perform employment audits, and provide counseling and training for managers, supervisors, human resources personnel, and employees on a variety of issues, and provide assistance with I-9 and immigration compliance, E-Verify, anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, diversity, constructive counseling, performance management, terminations, employee leaves, drug and alcohol testing, safety and other aspects of employment law. The Cavanagh Law Firm provides OSHA services nationwide to help companies comply with standards and defend OSHA inspections and citations. We emphasize client service and responsiveness to resolve matters efficiently and effectively and to provide a successful and cost-effective defense to claims.
THE CAVANAGH LAW FIRM serves clients locally and nationally. Attorneys within the firm litigate cases in the state and federal courts on all levels including the Supreme Court of the United States. We represent clients before a variety of administrative authorities at the city, county and state levels. Several of our attorneys are also admitted to practice in states other than Arizona, enabling the Firm to represent clients in a number of venues.
The Firm is a long-time participating member in The Harmonie Group, a national association of insurance risk defense lawyers.
About the author:
Workplace Safety and Health Compliance Manual
Established in 1948, FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP is one of the country’s oldest and largest firms devoted exclusively to representing employers in labor, employment, wage-hour, workplace safety and health, employee benefits, and business immigration law. Our depth and breadth of experience in these niche areas are unsurpassed.
Our practice includes counseling and defending employers under all major federal and state labor, employment, employee benefits, workplace safety and health, and business immigration laws and regulations including, among others: The Age Discrimination in Employment Act, The Americans With Disabilities Act, The Civil Rights Act, Title VII, The Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act, The Employee Polygraph Protection Act, The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, The Equal Pay Act, The Fair Credit Reporting Act, The Fair Labor Standards Act, The Family and Medical Leave Act, The Immigration Reform and Control Act, The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, The National Labor Relations Act, The Railway Labor Act, and The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
Our lawyers practice in federal and state courts throughout the United States and are admitted to the bars of most states. In addition to representing employers in traditional litigation, we also represent employers in federal, state and local administrative proceedings, mediation and arbitration, collective bargaining and administration of collective bargaining agreements, and informally in resolving threatened claims prior to the institution of formal proceedings.
As a result of our representation of employers in traditional litigation and formal claims proceedings, we have acquired considerable expertise in developing and implementing policies, practices, and procedures to help employers minimize or avoid the occurrence of employment-related claims, the risk of liability from such claims, or other forces that may interfere with employer rights.
We represent small, medium and large clients in a wide variety of industries. Our clients range from sole proprietorships to multi-national conglomerates. They are located throughout the United States, with concentrations of clients located around each of our offices.
Our thirty-one offices are located in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbia, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Ft. Lauderdale, Gulfport, Houston, Irvine, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles Louisville, Memphis, New Jersey, New Orleans, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland (ME), Portland (OR), San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Tampa, and Washington, D.C.
