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Appellate

Outten & Golden often files briefs and argues cases in U.S. Courts of Appeals across the country. They represent classes of workers with complaints against big companies, employees forced to sign unfair arbitration contracts, and professionals fighting the denial of their workplace rights. Our lawyers also file “friend of the court” briefs in support of employees in the U.S. Supreme Court and elsewhere.

Discrimination & Harassment

If you are an employee who has experienced discrimination or harassment in the workplace, you know all too well how painful and career-altering such conduct can be. Generally, discrimination means less favorable treatment because of a bias against someone based on age, gender/sex, disability, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Discrimination can take many forms and can negatively affect your hiring, conditions of employment, compensation, or prospects for promotion. It can even get you fired.

eDiscovery

Outten & Golden is a leader in eDiscovery for the plaintiffs bar. Our attorneys and other litigation support personnel assist other lawyers and firms representing employees with e-discovery in employment-related litigation. Our level of involvement varies based on the needs of the attorney/firm.

Employment Contracts, Partnerships & Non-Compete Agreements

Outten & Golden attorneys understand the legal, business, and professional implications of entering and exiting employment and partnership agreements of all kinds. We have considerable experience negotiating contracts and agreements for our clients in a variety of employment and partnership contexts, and represent them when a party of a contract breaches, threatens to breach, or is accused of breaching an agreement.

Executive Compensation, Benefits & Bonuses

Outten & Golden attorneys help clients negotiate the best possible compensation, benefits, and bonuses. We are familiar with the standard amounts, timing, and other details of compensation, benefits, and bonuses across many professions and industries and with the applicable laws.

International Employment Law

Outten & Golden attorneys represent executives and other employees globally in negotiating employment, separation, partnership, and restrictive covenant agreements (including non-compete and non-solicitation arrangements). We also represent multinationals and U.S. citizens abroad in discrimination matters and in asserting extraterritorial claims in the U.S. and subsequently arbitrating or litigating these disputes. Our attorneys have the knowledge, experience and relationships with lawyers in foreign jurisdictions to assist U.S. citizens and multinational employees abroad in the EU, Asia, the Middle East, Mexico, and other Latin American countries, Canada, and elsewhere in the world.

Layoffs & Closings

Losing a job, especially without warning, can be one of life’s most disturbing experiences. Employees in these situations may be protected by federal and local “WARN” laws.

These WARN laws let you see into the future - to know in advance that your job is going away. These laws require employers to give advanced notice of a job loss prior to shutting down a large worksite or conducting a large layoff.

The purpose of these laws is to give employees time to prepare for job loss, to arrange their financial affairs, to look for new work, to take a deep breath, focus, and figure...

Leaves of Absence

The attorneys at Outten & Golden are steadfast supporters of workers' rights to leaves of absence, whether they are for medical reasons, to care for family members with medical issues, for the birth or adoption of a child, or for military service or training. Federal and some local laws protect workers who need to take leave for these reasons, and our attorneys help clients understand and exercise their legal rights and avoid or fight against employer retaliation for taking leave.

Litigation & Class Actions

Outten & Golden attorneys represent individuals and groups in litigation in federal and state courts. We have had great success* in the many areas of employment law that we have litigated, including both individual and class actions.

(*Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.)

Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

Outten & Golden attorneys have been successfully arbitrating cases for years. We use a variety of tools and resources to evaluate the employment situation and problems before recommending an appropriate approach for each individual client. Arbitration for dispute resolution is an alternative to court litigation that some employers make mandatory.

Medical & Healthcare

Outten & Golden attorneys have tremendous insight and knowledge when it comes to laws governing the employment of physicians and healthcare professionals. Well-drafted contracts are crucial to ensuring that an employee’s rights and compensation are protected, avoiding unexpected adverse changes to employment, and allowing employees to focus on their professional responsibilities and goals. These benchmarks are even more crucial when applying their roles to the case of a healthcare provider employed by a hospital, medical group, or other health care provider.

Employment Contracts and Career Changes

Medical Whistleblower

The attorneys at Outten & Golden have a diverse and robust track record of counseling healthcare whistleblowers in federal and state courts. We can help you navigate through reporting, complying with an investigation, testifying, and pursuing a qui tam or retaliation claim if it is appropriate.

Privacy & Technology

Outten & Golden attorneys are committed to protecting employees’ rights to privacy and to use and access technologies, and to defend employees who are wrongly accused of misusing these technologies.

Terminations, Separation Agreements & U-5s

Outten & Golden believes that individuals and groups are entitled to fair and impartial treatment. Our attorneys fight to ensure equal participation of all citizens in the economic, social, and political aspects of the nation.

Wage & Overtime

Outten & Golden attorneys fight to ensure that workers are paid all the compensation they have earned. We represent workers whose employers have violated federal and/or local laws governing minimum wage, overtime, misclassification, exemptions, tips, commissions, prevailing wages, and other kinds of compensation. We often represent groups of workers who have suffered the same kind of wage theft by the same employer in class or collective actions.

Whistleblowing & Retaliation

Outten & Golden attorneys advocate for employees who have been illegally retaliated against for reporting misconduct in the workplace, including discrimination and financial wrongdoing. We counsel clients on their options and potential consequences both before and after they complain, whether to their employer or externally, about illegal behavior. We are well-versed in a variety of workplace laws that protect employees against being discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed or otherwise discriminated against for complaining about or reporting certain illegal activity.

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