Practice Areas
Employment & Labor
Prevention and a Great Defense
FBM’s team of employment and labor attorneys offer clients a uniquely potent one-two punch: helping employers prevent potential litigation and highly successful litigation defense. Our prevention services include:
- Employment policy, procedure and handbook legal compliance reviews;
- Training managers and staff to recognize potential areas of employment liability and acting to address problems in a legally defensive way;
- Working with clients to develop discipline and termination strategies that provide maximum defensibility; and
- Advising clients on disability accommodation and leaves of absence requests, both areas with high potential for litigation.
Our defense litigation team boasts a 100% success rate in defending against charges filed with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, as well as great success in pre-trial dismissals, jury trials and appellate courts.
For clients with a unionized workforce, FBM attorneys are highly-skilled in training managers to enforce an employer’s rights under a contract, negotiating collective bargaining agreements, and successfully defending arbitrations and administrative proceedings.
Our wide range of employment & labor services include:
- Litigation
- Training
- ADR
- Litigation Prevention Counseling
- Employee Benefits
- OSHA Issues
- Labor Negotiations & Enforcement
- Compliance Issues
