Labor and Employment Practice

Vedder Price is known as one a premier labor and employment law firms, representing private and public sector management clients of all sizes in all areas of employment law. The fact that over 50 of the firm’s attorneys concentrate in employment law assures ready availability of experienced labor counsel on short notice; constant backup for all ongoing client projects; continual training and review of newer attorneys’ work by seasoned employment law practitioners; and intra-area knowledge that small labor sections or boutique labor firms cannot provide. Clients routinely call upon Vedder Price’s experience in National Labor Relations Board, employment litigation and other employment matters. The firm’s practice includes collective bargaining, arbitration, proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, equal employment counseling and litigation, wrongful discharge litigation, Fair Labor Standards Act counseling and litigation, union avoidance and a broad variety of other labor and employment law areas, as described more fully below. Ranging across this spectrum of the law, Vedder Price attorneys have broad experience in the manufacturing, construction, transportation, retail, health care, mining, airline, food, telecommunications, financial services, insurance and publishing industries, to name but a few. The proven employment law experience of the firm thus provides depth and breadth in substantive law as well as industry background.