Labor and Employment Law
Our Labor Law and Employment Litigation Practice Group is racially, ethnically and gender diverse, and we serve an equally diverse range of employment clients in the pharmacy, healthcare, financial, insurance, legal, real estate, communications, hospitality, engineering, industrial and retail sectors, among others.
Below is a list of some of our representative cases and administrative matters:
- Mississippi: Successfully tried to verdict a class-action lawsuit alleging claims of racial discrimination in hiring, promotion and termination.
- Georgia: Won a seminal decision from the Georgia Court of Appeals involving libel and slander claims in the private sector.
- Georgia, Florida, Nevada: Successfully obtained injunctions in both enforcing and prohibiting the enforcement of non-competition clauses in employment agreements.
- Kentucky: Successfully defended a national pharmacy chain in a wage-hour dispute concerning whether pharmacists are exempt from overtime compensation requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
- Federal Courts of Appeals: Successful arguments before the Eleventh and Sixth Circuits Courts of Appeal in lawsuits alleging violations of Title VII, the ADEA, the FLSA, and the ADA.
- NLRB: Successfully petitioned this agency over whether registered nurses are supervisors for purposes of the National Labor Relations Act.
- Successful in obtaining summary judgment in over seventy-five (75) employment-discrimination lawsuits throughout the United States.
The firm's extensive experience includes counseling and litigation in virtually every aspect of the employer/employee relationship, including Title VII, Section 1981, Section 1983, the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and numerous other federal enactments regarding workers rights and employer obligations.
Our practice has particularly been successful in the representation of employers in the state courts of Georgia under various state law theories of recovery for wrongful termination, defamation, misappropriation of trade secrets, violations of restrictive covenants, and other misconduct.
The WWHGD Labor Law & Employment Litigation Practice Group also represents employers in matters under the National Labor Relations Act, including union organizing efforts, elections, collective bargaining, unfair labor practice trials, and arbitrations. In fact, our section leader was recently successful in petitioning the NLRB to review whether certain nurses in the healthcare industry are supervisors under the NLRA and thus ineligible to join a union.
Workplace Consulting:
One of the most critical functions of our labor and employment practice is to provide advice on routine and complicated issues that arise daily in the workplace. In that respect, we formulate employee handbooks, policies and procedures including those pertaining to drug testing, sexual harassment, the FMLA, and immigration laws. We also assist in preparing affirmative action programs, and serving as counsel to companies in connection with executive compensation and compensation agreements, as well as the negotiation and drafting of separation agreements.
If you would like to directly contact the partners in this practice group, we invite you to do so:
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