Employment Law

• Advice:
  Our firm offers extensive experience in giving employment law and business law advice regarding all aspects that occur during an employer-employee relationship. Some examples are answering questions you may have regarding what questions can be asked during the job interview, what documents are needed to show that an employee has been disciplined or terminated from employment legally, whether acts or comments are sexual harassment, whether acts or comments are discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, age, sex, disability (mental or physical), which salaried employees must be paid overtime pay, how to handle a situation of an employee that is on a leave of absence, and how to make a sexual harassment investigation, contract breaches, and covenants not to compete.
  
  
• Document Preparation and Review:
  Our attorneys prepare and review employee handbooks, policies and procedures manuals to determine whether they are up to date and contain legal provisions. We also prepare and review severance releases on employees who have been terminated from employment and employment contracts.
  
  
• Representation At Governmental Agencies
  Our services include representing clients before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on discrimination and retaliation claims, Texas Workforce Commission on unemployment compensation benefits, Texas Workforce Commission on civil rights claims, U.S. Department of Labor on overtime, minimum wage claims, family leave of absence claims.
  
  
• Federal, State, County Court Litigation
  Our lawyers provide legal representation to clients in employment law and business law litigation. We can prepare motions, briefs, motions to dismiss, discovery requests, and motions for summary judgment.  Our attorneys represent clients at mediations, settlement negotiations, in jury and non-jury trials, and handle appeals.