Shawe & Rosenthal LLP

The firm represents employers throughout the United States in every industry, including manufacturing, banking, insurance, health care, hotels and restaurants, communications, retail, utilities, food processing, publishing, construction, transportation, and education. Included among its clients are over 30 Fortune 500 corporations and many non-profit organizations, trade associations, and public employers.

The firm has been labor and employment counsel to such large companies as Danaher Corp., GEICO, Legg Mason & Co., LLC, McDonald's Corporation, MedStar Health, The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and Sylvan Learning Center.

The firm's practice includes defense of claims involving employment discrimination, wrongful termination, defamation, ERISA, wage and hour, and occupational safety and health matters. It represents management in NLRB hearings and representation campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations, arbitrations, picketing disputes, and unfair labor practice proceedings. The firm also provides advice and assistance in the complex areas of covenants not to compete, employee benefits, immigration, and compliance audits under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

The firm's members practice regularly before state and federal courts, the National Labor Relations Board, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, state and local human relations commissions, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, state occupational safety and health agencies, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Firm members publications include the "Employment Law Deskbook" (1989), "Corporate Counsel Solutions Employment Policies and Practices" and two chapters in "NLRA Law & Practice" (1991), all published by Matthew Bender. The firm also writes the "Maryland and Federal Employment Law Manual, published by the American Chamber of Commerce Publishers.