Brandon serves as a strategic ally to clients in a range of labor and employment matters. He focuses on providing practical solutions and business-minded counsel to national and regional employers on labor relations issues, including union organizing elections and decertification elections and negotiating initial and successor union collective bargaining agreements. Brandon has also successfully managed numerous threatened and actual labor disruptions including picketing, lockouts, and strikes. Brandon routinely defends employers in discrimination matters and claims brought pursuant to Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination in state and federal court. In addition, he represents employers in unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board.
As an experienced dispute and trial strategist, Brandon has served as lead counsel in obtaining various favorable arbitration settlements and verdicts on behalf of clients. His solutions emphasize resuming business productivity while mitigating negative press, company policy overhauls, and potential damages.
Brandon also advises employers on potential pension fund withdrawal liability matters and has negotiated favorable settlements for his clients. He also is experienced in drafting and revising personnel policies and employee handbooks and has drafted employment contracts and separation agreements.
While in law school, Brandon served as a judicial intern to the Hon. Susan Peikes Gantman, President Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
