Overview
A Tradition of Experience
Whether helping a Fortune 100 company navigate the rapids of a complex merger or acquisition, handling a union representation election, or renegotiating an expiring collective bargaining agreement, Epstein Becker Green's traditional labor law practice has the experience and resources to serve its clients wherever they are located. Our attorneys let their record speak for itself.
With offices throughout the United States, most hosting resident partners concentrating on traditional labor-management relations and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proceedings, Epstein Becker Green has extensive experience representing employers large and small in all aspects of labor-management relations.
Our attorneys have represented clients from virtually every industry in the United States, among them:
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A Tradition of Service
Epstein Becker Green's attorneys have literally done it all when it comes to labor relations, and our professional credentials rival those of any other firm in the United States. With backgrounds ranging from service with the NLRB, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Justice, the White House, Congress, and state and local agencies regulating labor-management relations in the public and private sector, our attorneys have been involved in the formulation and enforcement of national and state labor policy at the highest levels. That collective experience includes representing private sector, not-for-profit, and government employers in all aspects of labor-management relations, including union organizing campaigns; union corporate campaigns; representation and decertification cases before the NLRB and state agencies; unfair labor practice proceedings before the NLRB and state agencies; advice and counsel with respect to mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations; the prosecution and defense of damages claims by and against labor organizations; and strikes, secondary boycotts, picketing and hand-billing, mass demonstrations, and violence or vandalism. In addition, Epstein Becker Green's attorneys have successfully represented employers in literally hundreds of grievance-arbitration proceedings (including disciplinary, discharge, or contract interpretation grievances) and contract negotiations (including bargaining for multiemployer associations and single employers with multistate and national contracts).
A Tradition of Excellence
Our labor attorneys stand committed to providing our clients with the team to match their goals. Whether tackling the challenges created by a union organizing drive or corporate campaign, or providing advice and counsel with respect to labor unrest or strikes, we ably represent a client's interests by meeting its needs, on time, on budget, and with the quality all have come to expect from Epstein Becker Green.
Our Commitment
Regardless of the client's size, or its status as a public or private sector entity, our goal is always the same—to define and achieve the client's objectives in a manner that is sensitive to financial and time constraints, as well as to the client's overall business interests. And because ongoing communication is essential to the process, we place a high priority on being easily accessible to our clients.
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- Firm Announcements
Twenty-One Attorneys Named to the 2023 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
12 minute read - BlogsVideo: How the NLRB’s Labor-Friendly Actions Are Affecting Union and Non-Union Employers – Employment Law This ...4 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Delivers Labor Day Gifts to Unions9 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Issues Final Rule on NLRB Election Procedures; Returns to “Quickie Election” Procedures6 minute read
- Media CoverageAndrew Lichtenstein Featured in “On the Move”1 minute read
- Media CoverageAndrew Lichtenstein Featured in “Epstein Becker Picks Up Ex-O'Melveny Atty in LA”2 minute read
- Publications#WorkforceWednesday: Employer Policies to Face More Scrutiny, New CO Employment Laws, NJ’s Proposed Regulations for ...3 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Continues West Coast Expansion with Employment Attorney Andrew Lichtenstein in Los Angeles ...2 minute read
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Employer Handbooks and Policies Will Face More Scrutiny Under Stericycle, Inc. - NLRB Reverses a Prior Reversal ...
5 minute read - BlogsBiden NLRB Reverts to Obama Era Independent Contractor Test: Test Previously Rejected by DC Circuit7 minute read
- BlogsSupreme Court Recognizes Employer Right to Damages From Unions When Certain Types of Strike Activity Results in Economic ...5 minute read
- BlogsAn “Overbroad” Noncompete – the NLRB Has Found Its First Target10 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Earns National Recognition and High Rankings in the 2023 Edition of Legal 500
3 minute read - Media CoverageHeath Edwards Featured in “People on the Move”1 minute read
- BlogsNLRB General Counsel Now Targeting Noncompetes for Nonmanagerial and Nonsupervisory Employees6 minute read
- BlogsNJ Workers Involved in Labor Disputes Now Qualify for Increased Access to State Unemployment Benefits2 minute read
- Media CoverageHeath Edwards Featured in “Wake Up Call: Laterals, Moves, In-House”1 minute read
- BlogsRacist, Sexist, and Threatening Behavior Is Fine in the Workplace as Long as You Connect It to Union Activity: The Return of ...6 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green’s Nashville Office Expands with Employment Litigator Heath Edwards4 minute read
- Media CoverageHeath Edwards Featured in “EBG Adds Another Waller Veteran”2 minute read
- Blogs
Two by Two, Noah’s Ark Decision Expands Remedies Providing No Refuge for Employers
6 minute read - Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “Investor Proposals Turn Up Heat in Organizing Campaigns”3 minute read
- Blogs
NLRB Agenda Puts Pressure on Union and Non-Union Employers - Employment Law This Week Video
3 minute read - Media CoverageAdam Abrahms Quoted in “States with Legal Pot Consider How to Protect Cannabis Workers”2 minute read
- BlogsNLRB General Counsel Seeks to Further Restrict Employer Remarks on How Unionization Impacts Employer-Employee Relations ...7 minute read
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Non-Clarified - The NLRB GC’s McLaren Macomb Memo Provides Murky and Ominous Guidance on Board’s Prohibitions on ...
11 minute read - BlogsNon-Disparagement, Non-Disclosure, Non-Allowed: The NLRB Finds Unlawful Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement ...6 minute read
- BlogsD.C. Court of Appeals Scraps Substantive Changes from NLRB’s 2019 Final Rule on Election Procedures but Upholds ...6 minute read
- BlogsNLRB General Counsel Seeks to Restrict Employers’ Right to Permanently Replace Strikers6 minute read
- Media CoverageJeb Gerth Featured in “People on the Move”1 minute read
- BlogsNY Warehouse Workers Protection Act Requires Employer Disclosure on Mandated Work Speed and Quotas and Offers Protection ...5 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Continues Focused Growth in Nashville with Health Care and Employment Hires4 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Opens the Door for Contract Workers to Engage in Off-Duty Section 7 Activities Wherever They Work5 minute read
- BlogsThe “Community of Interest” Saga Continues – the Return of Micro-Bargaining Units5 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Dramatically Increases Liability for Unfair Labor Practices with Far-Reaching “Consequential Damages”6 minute read
- BlogsNLRB General Counsel Proposes Lower Standard for Requiring Employers to Provide Financial Information5 minute read
- Media CoveragePaul DeCamp Quoted in “Off-Topic Probing in Depositions Can Be Unfair Labor Practice”3 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Peter Steinmeyer and Steven Swirsky Named to Thomson Reuters Practical Law’s Labor & Employment Advisory Board ...
3 minute read - BlogsFollowing the Recent Regulatory Trends, NLRB General Counsel Seeks to Limit Employers’ Use of Artificial Intelligence in ...4 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsMichael Ferrell and Epstein Becker Green Receive the Grant Park Music Festival “2022 Advocate for the Arts” Award ...3 minute read
- Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “Apple’s Oklahoma City Store Is Second to Unionize after Vote”3 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Offers New Guidance on When It Will Hold an In-Person Election - Replaces Positivity Metric with CDC Tracker ...6 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Seventeen Attorneys Named to the 2022 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
8 minute read - PublicationsThe High Price of a Seat at the Fast-Food Council Table: A.B. 257 Brings Rising Labor Costs to the Fast-Food Industry ...9 minute read
- Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “3 Takeaways from the NLRB's Joint Employer Rule Redux”3 minute read
- BlogsTesla Gets a Dressing Down by the NLRB7 minute read
- Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “NLRB's Schultz Complaint Reflects Remedies Push, Attys Say”3 minute read
- Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “Starbucks' Election Misconduct Claims Turn Up Heat on NLRB”2 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsLawdragon Names Adam S. Forman as a “Leading Corporate Employment Lawyer”2 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Adam S. Forman Named to the 2022 Michigan Super Lawyers List
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