When Nothing Less Than The Best Will Do--Go Beyond Ordinary To Extraordinary--
Jerry Redmond, a management-side Labor & Employment Lawyer. Legal blog discusses unionized workforces, benefits compliance, and HR consulting.
Proven Record of Obtaining Victories & Results For Clients
- Defeated class certification in plaintiff FLSA collective action alleging independent contractor misclassification and willful failure to pay overtime
- Directed verdict in Title VII, defamation, breach of contract, tortious interference, fraud and conversion action
- Unfair labor charge victory and union decertification resulting from members engaging in misconduct while on strike
- Summary judgment in California PAGA independent contractor misclassification and overtime multi-plaintiff action
- Successfully lead and managed investigation and class action in retaliation, national origin, and religious discrimination following September 11th attacks resulting in settlement nearly half a million less than plaintiffs demand
- Successfully defended emergency TRO and permanent injunction seeking to shut down client’s east coast operations in CFAA, theft of trade secrets, confidential information, breach of fiduciary duty, non-compete and contract action
- Dismissal of all claims against private College’s Board of Regents and President in faculty member’s breach of contract, harassment, business and personal defamation, retaliation, and wrongful termination action
- Successfully re-negotiated multi-million buy—sale agreement, prevented substantial loss revenue, profits, and goodwill, and avoided high profile, protracted, and costly litigation in minority-shareholder oppression dispute
- Victory in nation-wide union employees’ labor arbitration challenging management’s right to implement a no-points attendance policy and various zero tolerance safety violation disciplinary policies
- Successfully defended partner’s bad-faith expulsion from law firm, negotiated, and obtained favorable settlement in excess of partnership agreement’s buyout clause formula/amount in dispute alleging professional malpractice
- Denial of class certification and summary judgment in expat’s national origin, ADEA, and retaliation action after obtaining admissions of no client wrongdoing from potential members of non-certified class
- Denial of OSHA safety violation citations alleged to have caused the death of client’s employee
- Successfully obtained defense verdict in wrongful death admitted liability action
- Numerous victories in labor arbitration for disciplines, terminations, threats of violence, theft, fraud, safety violations, and interpretations of and failure to negotiate CBA in good faith, as well as dismissals of ULP Charges before the NLRB, thereby delivering real results to unionized clients.
