Labor & Employment

The core of our labor and employment practice involves employment litigation and pre-litigation counseling for Fortune 500 companies, private companies, and municipalities. We handle the full range of claims and issues that grow out of the employer-employee relationship, including: breach of contract; sex, disability, race, and religious discrimination; wrongful termination; sexual harassment; retaliation claims; wage and hour disputes; whistleblower claims; covenants not to compete; theft or misappropriation of trade secrets; and unfair competition claims. We also have extensive experience in class actions and class action avoidance and have successfully defeated class certification in a variety of labor and employment cases. We represent employment clients in litigation in state and federal court in Texas and throughout the Southwest, before governmental administrative agencies and tribunals, and in arbitrations.

Figari & Davenport also provides pre-litigation counseling on issues relating to employee hiring, training, discipline, compensation, promotion, and affirmative action. We routinely prepare, review, and interpret employment agreements, non-competition clauses, confidentiality/non-disclosure provisions, and arbitration agreements. We also represent high-level executives in matters relating to their employment relationships, such as negotiating and litigating severance agreements and relevant benefit packages. We have counseled clients in connection with claims involving the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act, the Texas Labor Code, and other related federal and state statutes.