Labor & Employment

The ScottHulse PC labor and employment attorneys provide a full spectrum of labor and employment legal and advisory services to local, regional, and national clients. To help clients avoid employment litigation altogether, a substantial portion of our practice is devoted to helping our clients proactively approach employee issues in ways that minimize legal risks and maximize business effectiveness through training and consultation. Should unavoidable lawsuits arise, our Labor & Employment team includes experienced litigators and trial lawyers who are well prepared to aggressively defend clients. Our trial lawyers have a high success rate in successfully resolving claims and administrative charges, investigations arising from those charges, and lawsuits involving various types of claims and regulatory issues including Title VII, Wage/Hour/I-9 Compliance, ADEA, ADA, FMLA, OSHA, and labor union matters (NLRB, NLRA).

Key areas of representation and services provided by our labor and employment lawyers include:

Preventive advice and training
Government regulation and compliance
Employment practices liability (EPL) claim defense
Litigation
Alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation
Traditional organized labor matters
Changes in ownership and reductions in workforce
Restrictive covenants, trade secrets, and non-competition agreements

Select Representations:

Launched a successful union avoidance campaign and successfully represented janitorial company in union election before the National Labor Relations Board, defeating the union.
Successfully tried to a verdict a variety of cases involving claims of discrimination based on race, age, gender, national origin, disability, and/or retaliation.
Successfully defended hundreds of charges of discrimination filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Texas and New Mexico Commissions on Human Rights.
Represented clients in mass tort litigation workers’ compensation claims in Hidalgo County, Texas.
Successfully negotiated claims of unfair labor practices for a small business.
Obtained favorable jury verdict for a client involved in a workers’ compensation dispute.