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We represent employers in their dealings with unions and unionized workforces, including in the heavily unionized health care, manufacturing, transportation and public employer sectors. We have been involved in numerous union organizing matters, including corporate campaigns, and many complex and high stakes labor negotiations with corresponding unfair labor practice charges and threatened job actions. We regularly appear before the National Labor Relations Board, and similar state boards, in representation and unfair labor practice cases, and assist employers with collective bargaining, grievance management, and arbitrations.


Our training and counsel are critical to preventing and prevailing in eventual litigation. Should a workplace issue turn into a dispute, we do what employers need most: listen, investigate, analyze, and evaluate potential business impact to devise the strategy for the best outcome. We represent employers in the health care, retail, manufacturing, and communications industries as well as state and local governments in class and collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and related state laws. These high-stakes actions stem from issues including employee misclassification, off-the-clock compensation, timeliness of overtime payments and challenges to mandatory arbitration programs and class action waivers. We also pursue innovative areas of growth including diversity, equity, and inclusion, accessibility, and workplace investigations.

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Labor & Employment - New Jersey

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What the Team is Known For

Ballard Spahr LLP is sought after for its expertise in all manner of contentious employment matters relating to wage and hour, discrimination and retaliation claims. The firm has notable experience in independent contractor classification disputes. It is additionally capable in the traditional labor law arena, with experience acting for nonunionized and unionized clients across the healthcare, energy and manufacturing industries. The group is also experienced in NLRB negotiations and advises clients facing OSHA investigations.

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Notable Practitioners

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Denise M Keyser
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Denise M Keyser
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Denise Keyser's wide-ranging practice covers labor negotiations, whistle-blower litigation and employment contract matters.

Denise is one of the best lawyers I have ever worked with and the services she provides are excellent.

Louis L Chodoff
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Louis L Chodoff
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Louis Chodoff advises employers on a host of contentious and noncontentious labor and employment matters.

Louis Chodoff is always responsive and flexible. He is an extremely knowledgeable and skilled negotiator and litigator.

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Ballard Spahr LLP

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New Jersey

Labor & Employment

Denise M Keyser
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Denise M Keyser
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Band 1
Louis L Chodoff
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Louis L Chodoff
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