Practice Areas

Private Sector Wage Enforcement

The correct wage must be calculated and paid on time. Overtime and minimum wage must be paid for non-exempt salaried management and professional workers; but a real salary must be paid and not undertime pay; a real managerial and professional exemption must be established, not just pretty words.   

US Immigration Law

Business Immigration Compliance (Investor Immigration E-2 Visas, Employment Immigration L-1A/B, TN Trade NAFTA Professionals, specializing in Scientific Technicians, Management Consultants, and more).

Family Immigration and Fiancé Visas, Petition for Relatives, Green Cards.

Also, inadmissibility issues, deportation, wrongful removal, Nexus appeals.

Public Sector Employees

OPM disability retirement, federal sector employee tenure, MSPB, EEOC, public sector state, local, college and school district employee tenure.

Private and Public Sector Law Against Discrimination

Ageism, racism, sexism, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, and sex and race harassment.

Private Sector Pension and Severance

Employee benefits that do not begin until the employment is terminated and are subject to ERISA reporting, writing, grievance, and publication requirements.

Whistleblower

Persons who report to the chain of command or appropriate regulators illegal or unethical conduct that affects the public and is not merely an internal personnel matter.

Employee Handbook

Promises of specific treatment under specified circumstances, which are circulated to employees in a suitably official form. (Examples: check your employee handbook or supervisors’ manual subsections titled “Grievances,” “Discipline,” “Termination,” “Employee rights and responsibilities” and “Last Chance Memos.”)

Workers' Compensation/Third Party Injury Claims

Workers' Compensation covers injuries in the course of your employment. Third parties include your employer's contractors, service providers, repair shops, leasing companies, and non-employed site workers, who may be sued for injuries independently of workers' compensation, unlike your employer or its other employees who are responsible only for Workers' Compensation benefits.