When it comes to employment law, businesses need effective prevention and strong advocacy. Organizations at the forefront of their industries select counsel who can effectively resolve highly volatile labor and employment disputes, keep these disputes below the public’s radar, and help clients meet their human resources needs. Pahl & McCay represents a broad spectrum of employers on both employment and labor law issues with a full range of legal solutions to issues affecting the workplace. The firm has a diverse and highly experienced team of employment and labor attorneys who routinely focus on employment litigation, counseling and traditional labor matters. Pahl & McCay provides its clients with quick, responsive attention. In keeping with its commitment to maintain a diverse environment, well over half of its employment lawyers are women or minorities.
Employers hire Pahl & McCay to try and win cases before juries as well as judges and administrative agencies. By partnering with its clients to achieve their business goals, the firm develops strategies that materially reduce or eliminate the risks of employment litigation. Limiting the firm’s employment practice to the representation of management, Pahl & McCay defends employers in both federal and state court against claims of wrongful termination, breach of employment contracts, discrimination, sexual harassment, and other employment-related litigation. The firm’s employment attorneys also regularly appear before administrative tribunals such as the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the California Labor Commissioner and the California Department of Fair Employment & Housing.
Pahl & McCay brings a deep understanding of its clients’ business objectives and corporate cultures to advise them on compliance with laws affecting the workplace. The firm’s clients regularly turn to Pahl & McCay to help them comply with the myriad of employment laws and reduce litigation risk. The firm’s employment practice is distinguished by assertive trial strategies, sophisticated subject knowledge and advice and early settlement and mediation strategies. In stressing its commitment to preventative law, the firm’s employment attorneys draft employee handbooks, policies, contracts and equal employment opportunity statements, as well as advise clients on such matters as wage and hour law, statutory leave (such as FMLA), accommodation issues, workplace violence, drug testing, employee screening, discipline and termination issues. Pahl & McCay also provides employment counseling for many issues such as avoiding and handling claims of employment discrimination, structuring employee separations to avoid claims of wrongful or unfair dismissal, training line employees and managers on human resource topics, developing trade secret protection programs and conducting internal investigations of sexual harassment and other suspected misconduct.
From the firm’s inception, Pahl & McCay has aggressively represented its clients in a wide variety of union matters. Its attorneys assist and advise employers in traditional labor-management relations, including counseling our clients on union representation efforts, collective bargaining negotiations, grievance-arbitrations and strike management. In addition to representing clients in union negotiations and related matters, Pahl & McCay also counsels non-union clients on how to retain their status and the firm routinely represents employers who are facing union-organizing campaigns and unfair labor practice proceedings.
The firm’s attorneys also work to support its clients' human resources personnel and management in their efforts to design systems and policies. To this end, Pahl & McCay conducts in-house training for its clients' management and staff on such diverse subjects as employment discrimination, sexual harassment, workplace violence, wrongful termination and compliance with the American with Disabilities Act; instructing clients and their employees about practical steps to avoid costly and often preventable litigation.