Labor, Employment and Employee Benefits

Employers today confront a broad array of sensitive workforce issues, including a seemingly endless flow of employee relations issues, investigations, terminations, lawsuits, and new employment-related regulations. With a team of attorneys whose practices are focused on labor and employment law, Saul Ewing's Labor, Employment and Employee Benefits (LEEB) Practice Group offers its clients the sophisticated counsel and personal attention of a boutique law firm with the added resources of a full service law firm.

Who We Are

• One of the largest groups of attorneys in the Mid-Atlantic region whose practices are entirely dedicated to representing management in all aspects of the law affecting human resources and labor relations. Through various combinations Saul Ewing has brought together attorneys of broad experience, backgrounds and areas of concentration, located in offices throughout the region, who have a shared dedication to labor and employment law and commitment to personal service.
• Attorneys who have developed strong areas of knowledge through representation of clients nationwide in diverse industries. If you have an employment, labor relations or employee benefits legal question, it is likely a Saul Ewing attorney has handled the issue before – and may have national recognition in that subject area.
• Attorneys who provide both litigation and counseling services. Our litigators represent clients in matters ranging from arbitrations to administrative agency hearings to the largest, complex and class action cases. But it is our individual and collective experience on both the counseling side of human resources and related corporate matters, and representing employers in court, that adds value to clients who turn to Saul Ewing.

What We Do

Our Labor and Employment team represents clients in all aspects of labor and employment law, including:

• Employment Litigation
• Employee Defection and Recruitment
• Employment Counseling
• Traditional Labor Relations
• Employee Benefits

We provide litigation, counseling and dispute resolution services on a range of issues, including employment discrimination and harassment, wrongful discharge, wage and hour, non-compete and trade secrets, union organizing efforts, collective bargaining and arbitration, executive compensation, as well as benefits design, implementation and compliance, personnel policy development and many other areas.

Who We Serve

We have a diverse nationwide practice providing advice and defense to large and medium-size employers in many industries, including but not limited to:

• Defense Contractors (manufacturing, supply and services)
• Financial institutions
• Hospitals, healthcare providers, nursing homes and assisted living facilities
• Specialty and Mass Retailers
• Manufacturing
• Hi-tech and bio-tech
• Construction and Building Trades
• Telecommunications
• Distribution, trucking and warehousing
• Entertainment and media
• Food and beverage industry processing, distribution and retail
• Colleges and Universities; public and private schools
• Law, accounting, consulting and other Professional Services firms
• Hospitality; Hotel and Restaurant

Labor and Employment Law Practice with National Reach

Saul Ewing has a Mid-Atlantic footprint, but a nationwide reach, providing advice and defense to large and mid-size employers in nearly every industry sector with facilities throughout the U.S. Our Washington, D.C. presence enables us to readily assist clients with federal regulatory and legislative issues.

Our attorneys regularly appear before many federal and state agencies throughout the U.S., including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the U.S. Departments of Justice (DOJ), Labor (DOL) and Education.

Personal Commitment to Our Clients

We know employers have a choice when it comes to selecting the lawyer and law firm who will represent their business, agency or institution. We pride ourselves on our commitment to understanding our clients’ operations and industry and to establishing long-term relationships as trusted advisors. Saul Ewing is proud that many of its clients have relied upon the same attorneys for advice for as long as 35 years. For members of our Labor, Employment and Employee Benefits practice, nurturing and maintaining lasting client relationships is not lip service. It's the way we do business.

Investing Our Time in Learning Your Business and Needs

Part of our personal commitment is going beyond the immediate assignment to learn how our clients’ businesses operate and to gain an understanding of our clients’ cultures and needs.

Judge for yourself. As some examples, Saul Ewing LEEB attorneys have:

• Worked a shift in a fast food chain;
• Spent a day visiting stores with a client's outside salesperson to understand the business and the job duties;
• Routinely tour our clients' plants and operations and attend Board meetings;
• Regularly read industry publications and attend industry events.

These activities are typically off-the-clock. We know that the more we understand our clients' businesses and needs, the better we can serve them.

Going Above and Beyond

Long before other industries moved to 24/7 service, our attorneys made service a priority. At Saul Ewing, our clients know they can reach us when they need us. When a major workplace incident occurs, a union organizing campaign is reported, or a nasty sexual harassment complaint filed, it is typical for a Saul Ewing lawyer or team to be on a plane within 24 hours to wherever they are needed. Our attorneys have conducted training in Fairbanks, Alaska – in February; obtained an injunction against a major strike on a Sunday morning; stood on call for round-the-clock union contract negotiations and had their tires slashed during other negotiations. If one lawyer happens to be unavailable, we have a very deep bench ready to step in on short notice to provide the guidance our clients need.

Why Saul Ewing? Because we partner with our clients and are mutually invested in your business.