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Our commitment is to provide labor and employment representation of the highest quality and greatest integrity on terms that make good business sense. Our labor and employment attorneys are among the most talented, creative and dedicated you will find. On a daily basis, we provide well-informed, carefully-considered advice to help clients navigate the ever-changing landscape of labor and employment laws and achieve their business objectives without incurring liability. We recognize that the most valuable advice we can provide is that which prevents problems before they arise. Should a lawsuit nonetheless occur, our combination of litigation experience and substantive expertise makes us uniquely qualified to handle all types of employment cases, from the typical single-plaintiff case to the complex, “bet the company” class action lawsuit. We have litigated extensively before administrative agencies, arbitrators and state and federal courts, from the National Labor Relations Board to the United States Supreme Court. Our clients have regularly called on us to handle the most difficult and complicated legal issues on appeal in situations where they cannot afford to gamble. And while we stand ready to litigate vigorously and routinely try cases where appropriate and necessary, we also recognize that full-scale litigation is not always desirable. For that reason, our attorneys are experienced in negotiating favorable settlement agreements and in finding creative solutions to resolve formal disputes while preserving each client’s goodwill with customers, employees, labor unions and governmental agencies. We have handled virtually every type of employment case filed today, including those involving discrimination based on race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, and worker's compensation protection, as well as those alleging wrongful termination, state law torts, whistleblower claims, wage and hour or trade secret actions. We are also unique in our traditional labor law experience. While the percentage of management labor and employment attorneys who devote a large portion of their practice to handling traditional labor law matters has dwindled, we at Howard Rice devote a significant part of our practice to traditional labor matters. Over the last 10 years, our directors have negotiated dozens of collective bargaining agreements and handled hundreds of labor arbitration hearings and related NLRB matters. Areas of Focus
Representative Engagements of Howard Rice Attorneys We prevailed on all claims on behalf of a major electronics company in a multiplaintiff race and national origin discrimination case brought by a prominent San Francisco plaintiffs' counsel. The firm was recently retained to represent a major healthcare management products company in the appeal of the largest employment discrimination jury verdict in California history. The plaintiff alleged a discriminatory failure to provide a leave of absence and a failure to accommodate her mental disability. The jury rendered a verdict of approximately $18 million. We are currently drafting the appellate brief. We represented a national drugstore chain in a putative class action alleging that three categories of employees had been misclassified as exempt. We designed a creative settlement approach before expending substantial resources to defeat class certification: claims relating to two job categories were dismissed; the remaining claims were settled in a class format, using gift certificates as part of the consideration, and approved by the court. We compelled arbitration, and then prevailed at arbitration, in a gender discrimination and harassment suit on behalf of a major broadcasting company. We represented an airline company against a group of international aviators based in Los Angeles who alleged that the company failed to pay them in accordance with California wage and hour laws. We obtained summary judgment on the grounds that California law did not apply extraterritorially and would violate the dormant commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. The case was affirmed on appeal. Representative Clients
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