Labor & Employment

We offer the full spectrum of labor & employment services, with experience handling precedent-setting cases. Our lawyers represent a wide range of employers on their most complex and challenging labor and employment legal issues.

From wage-and-hour class actions and discrimination cases, and arbitrations involving key talent to complex labor controversies, we assist companies confronted with consequential labor and employment matters that cannot be solved with cookie-cutter strategies.

Industry Leaders

Our lawyers have been repeatedly recognized for deploying creative approaches to significant and potentially problematic cases and issues. The quality of our labor and employment lawyers and the collective depth of their knowledge in all areas of employment law have earned recognition by numerous publications.

Law360 rated the firm as one of the nation’s Employment Practice Groups of the Year, and our group won this award four times. Chambers USA has also repeatedly recognized us as a leading nationwide labor and employment practice.

The quality of our lawyers is reflected in the nature of our representations. Our partners have served as lead counsel in nationwide collective actions alleging “off the clock” violations or misclassification of employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), as well as in single-, multi-plaintiff and class action challenges under numerous equal employment opportunity laws, including:

Various discrimination claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Pay Act
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Akin understands that the integrity of our clients’ workforce is indispensable to positioning them at the forefront of the marketplace. Our litigators’ legal dexterity and credibility have allowed us to obtain groundbreaking successes against the nation’s best and most aggressive plaintiffs’ firms. Our cases are frequently cited as standard setting by courts, government administrators and other lawyers.

Client-Focused Approach

Our abiding goal is to help clients achieve the best possible outcome for their businesses, whether by early favorable settlement or through trial and appeal.

Striving to become not only a resource, but also a valued partner to our clients’ in-house counsel and management, we consistently tailor our strategy and approach to achieve their business objectives. We apply these same principles when helping clients in complex labor-management controversies and issues, including organizing campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations, unfair labor practice charges, corporate campaigns and development of strategies to handle union-related issues for companies in transition.

Our practice also includes deep knowledge and experience in a range of other workplace challenges, including Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and employee benefits, background checks, executive agreements and disputes, workplace safety and health, international labor and employment and whistleblower matters.

We advise on the following key areas, among others: