Practice Areas & Industries: Andrews Kurth LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Andrews Kurth represents a diverse group of employers with multi-state and international offices. Our international experience includes Canada, South America, and Europe. We provide prompt, cost-effective solutions consistent with our clients' business operations, policies and practices.

We also stand ready to defend personnel actions and have appeared before numerous governmental agencies at the federal, state, and local level; we have arbitrated and mediated in numerous forums; and we have litigated and handled appeals at all levels of state and federal courts. We are also experienced in alternative dispute resolution (arbitration, conciliation, and mediation).

Services Available

Our employment team is composed of partners, associates, and paralegals who interact to ensure that we are on the cutting edge and deliver services in a manner consistent with the characteristics and attitudes that have been the basis of Andrews Kurth's success and the success of our clients. In an effort to provide our clients with personalized attention and preventative strategies, our employment team regularly provides employment health check audits; practical "nuts & bolts" educational seminars and training programs; Employer Alert newsletters; client advisories; same day legal advisory services; and monthly status reports and legal budgets, upon request. By way of limited example, our experience includes the following areas:

• Affirmative Action
• Alcohol and Drug Testing
• Alternative Work Arrangements (Contingent Workers)
• Compensation
• Covenants Not to Compete
• Disability
• Discrimination/Harassment/ Retaliation
• EEO Investigations/Position Statements/Commissioner's Charges
• Employment Contracts
• ERISA Plans and Litigation
• Executive Compensation
• Federal Contractor Compliance
• Garnishments
• Handbooks and Workplace Policies
• Hiring/Discipline/Termination
• Leaves (Family, Medical, Jury, Military and the Like)
• Labor Disputes/Union Avoidance
• Severance Plans and Agreements
• Stock Option Plans
• Workers' Compensation/ Retaliation
• Workforce Reductions
• Safety
• Workplace Torts: Defamation, Invasion of Privacy, False Imprisonment, Assault, Infliction of Emotional Distress, Fraud and the Like

Andrews Kurth handles the entire scope of labor and employment-related law, including:

• traditional labor law
  • union avoidance
  • representation elections
  • collective bargaining
  • grievances
  • arbitrations
  • unfair labor practice charges
• employee discrimination and sexual harassment
• wrongful termination and employee discipline
• the American With Disabilities Act
• the Family and Medical Leave Act
• OSHA safety-related complaints and inspections
• the Fair Labor Standards Act (minimum wage and overtime)
• workers' compensation discrimination
• the WARN Act
• affirmative action plans
• OFCCP audits
• employee raiding
• unemployment compensation
• employee handbooks and employment policies
• trade secret protection
• intellectual property rights and no-compete covenants
• claims related to employment torts
  • defamation
  • intentional infliction of emotional distress
  • invasion of privacy