A National Litigation Practice Providing Sophisticated Representation in Complex Disputes

In recent years, labor and employment disputes have grown larger, more complex and far more likely to pose a significant threat to an employer’s core business interests. The plaintiffs’ bar has dramatically increased its use of high-stakes class, collective, and mass actions to cover a wide spectrum of labor and employment, wage and hour, and public accessibility claims; federal and state agencies are focusing on claims of systemic discrimination and substantially increasing their budgets to litigate pattern or practice cases; and legislators continue to debate laws involving data privacy, employees’ rights to form unions, the use of credit and criminal background checks in the hiring process and other emerging issues. Muddying the waters further, judicial decisions across the country are often in direct conflict, making it difficult for employers to determine appropriate “safe harbor” policies and practices for their workforces.

The experienced lawyers of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s national labor and employment team understand the many challenges facing employers today. We have earned deserved reputations as “go to” lawyers for major employment, wage and hour, labor relations and public accessibility cases across the nation. Our lawyers have extensive experience defending class, collective, and mass actions, and have the distinction of being included in a select group of attorneys in the country who have tried complex representative proof cases to jury verdicts. We have successfully litigated thousands of high-profile, high-risk matters in federal and state courts, in hearings before federal and state law enforcement agencies, and in mediations and arbitrations. We have maintained a traditional labor practice over the last five decades and today our vast experience in assisting our clients with managing and terminating anti-corporate campaigns is unmatched.

Backed by the extensive resources of a longstanding global law firm with exceptional credentials, we have national practices that cover the entire spectrum of the labor, employment and public accessibility fields and we lead teams that represent a large and diverse client base of major national employers in cases across the nation. We represent clients in virtually every form of traditional and emerging labor and employment dispute, and several of our current representations concern issues at the forefront of new employment class and collective litigation trends across the country. With our national resources, we also provide litigation counseling and docket management services that enable employers to identify risks early and take appropriate remedial action, thereby limiting their risks and exposure to—and the costs associated with—individual and class claims.

See also:

• Affirmative Action Counseling
• Complex Employment Litigation
• ERISA Litigation
• Immigration
• Labor Management Relations and Labor Litigation
• OSHA Compliance, Litigation and Defense
• Public Accommodations
• Unfair Competition and Employee Raiding
• Wage and Hour Class Actions

About Our Practice Group
Our labor and employment team has been active for over 70 years representing employers in all matters related to the employer/employee relationship. We represent clients in all industries, but have particular experience in retail, hospitality, financial, energy and health care. We are national in practice and provide excellent, prompt, cost-effective, team-based service. We work with government agencies such as EEOC, OSHA and the OFCCP, and, where our clients already have represented employees, labor unions, to negotiate beneficial outcomes. However, we also litigate in federal and state courts throughout the nation. We handle single plaintiff cases under creative fee arrangements and are one of the few firms that successfully tries class and collective actions to juries under Title VII and the FLSA. We are also particularly adept at providing strategic labor advice, handling complex NLRB matters, corporate and election campaigns.