Keesal, Young & Logan’s employment attorneys take pride in their ability to
litigate a broad range of employment matters, while never losing sight of our clients’
overall business and employee-relations goals. Our attorneys work closely with clients
to minimize risks of litigation, provide practical and creative human resources
advice, and defend claims relating to every aspect of state and federal employment
law.
The firm has tried and/or arbitrated claims for wrongful termination, age discrimination,
sex discrimination, disability discrimination, national origin discrimination, racial
discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, religious discrimination, retaliation,
wage and hour
violations, ERISA violations, sexual harassment, breach of contract, defamation,
violation of family leave laws and many other claims.
The firm routinely defends
clients before federal, state and local administrative agencies on claims relating
to discrimination, unemployment, workers' compensation,
and wage and hour matters.
In addition, the firm has defended and obtained favorable resolutions of multiple
wage and hour class actions, including claims for overtime misclassification, rest
period and meal break violations and related claims. The firm also frequently
represents employers in claims relating to trade secret violations, non-competition
and non-solicitation issues, and other Unfair Business Practices
claims.
Among the recent results obtained by our employment attorneys are the following:
- Defense judgment and partial attorneys’ fees awarded to our client in a $6 million
constructive termination, disability discrimination, FMLA, invasion of privacy and
defamation case.
- Summary judgment in a race discrimination, fraud, promissory estoppel, unfair competition
and unpaid wages case.
- Defense judgment in a million-dollar sexual harassment, assault and battery and
emotional distress case.
- Summary adjudication of age discrimination and retaliation claims brought in multi-plaintiff
action.
- Defense verdict in a million-dollar disability discrimination and retaliation case
after a three-week jury trial.
Finally, because Keesal, Young & Logan finds that a little "preventive medicine"
can often avoid potentially troublesome matters resulting in litigation, the firm's
attorneys frequently provide counsel to clients on a wide variety of employment
issues, including hiring and selection procedures, discipline and termination, harassment
and discrimination investigations, wage and hour matters, drug testing, polygraph
testing, COBRA, occupational safety and health matters, unfair competition, employee
indemnification, and many other issues. The firm's attorneys also prepare employment
applications, employee handbooks, binding arbitration agreements, at-will
agreements, employment contracts, independent contractor agreements and a variety
of other agreements.
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