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One Atlantic Center
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309-3424
T: +1 (404) 881-7000
F: +1 (404) 881-7777
Alston & Bird is a leading national AmLaw 50 firm with offices in Atlanta, Brussels, Charlotte, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Research Triangle, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. The firm's attorneys provide a full range of services to domestic and international clients conducting business around the world.
Our unique culture and core values have been nurtured for more than a century. They define who we are and how we interact with our clients and with each other. From the founding of the firm in 1893, collegiality, teamwork, loyalty, diversity, individual satisfaction, fairness and professional development have been guiding principles and values by which we measure ourselves.
Alston & Bird's Labor & Employment Group has extensive experience in all areas of labor and employment litigation and counseling. We defend class and collective actions; defend and prosecute claims of unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets; assist clients in post-crisis multi-agency government investigations; and negotiate against as well as fight labor unions. We have been at the forefront of developing and enforcing employment arbitration agreements and class-action waivers in some of the most challenging jurisdictions.
Our labor & employment services include:
- ADA programs.
- Affirmative action plans and OFCCP reporting.
- Class, mass and collective action litigation.
- Compliance audits.
- Corporate internal investigations.
- Disabled access and accommodations.
- Discrimination, harassment and other employment litigation.
- Drug testing/background checks/pre-employment testing.
- EEOC proceedings.
- Employment agreements.
- Employment arbitrations.
- FINRA disputes.
- FMLA and other leave issues.
- Handbook drafting and revision.
- Immigration and related government investigations.
- Independent contractor/employee classification issues.
- Labor negotiations, grievances and arbitrations.
- NLRB proceedings.
- Noncompetition and other restrictive covenants.
- OSHA, MSHA and other occupational safety issues.
- Privacy in the workplace.
- Record retention policies.
- Reductions in force.
- Retaliation actions.
- Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Trade secret protection and misappropriation.
- Traditional labor matters.
- Union campaigns and union avoidance.
- USERRA.
- Wage and hour counseling and litigation, including class and collective action.
- WARN Act (and Cal-WARN).
- Wellness programs.
- Whistleblower claims.