About

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Our attorneys offer clients extensive experience and innovation in the wide range of legal services needed to manage the complex relationship between employers and employees, including employment litigation, day-to-day counseling, benefit plans, ERISA compliance and litigation, workplace safety and health issues, and immigration and citizenship.

Taft’s attorneys have defended individual and class action lawsuits involving claims alleging race, gender, age, disability, and religious discrimination and harassment; retaliation; Family and Medical Leave Act violations; ERISA violations; breach of contract; torts; whistleblower claims; and various other employment-related causes of action.

Taft’s Labor Relations and Union Avoidance practice has decades of experience representing public and private employers, both large and small, in the important relationship between management and unions. We provide thoughtful, creative advice in collective bargaining, union avoidance, strike and lockout activities, grievance arbitration, labor litigation, and all other aspects of traditional labor law pursuant to state and local statutes, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Railway Labor Act.

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What the Team is Known For

Taft provides comprehensive coverage of all labor and employment issues, with particular expertise in the traditional labor space. The law firm is also prominent in restrictive covenant, trade secrets and unfair competition disputes, as well as large-scale collective employment cases, and increasingly active in conducting internal investigations on behalf of employers. The group is regularly sought out by clients from the food and logistics sectors.

Work Highlights

  • Taft advised Chanel on claims brought by a former employee who refused to follow the employer’s COVID mask mandate at the height of COVID.

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Notable Practitioners

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John Alan Doran
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John Alan Doran
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John Alan Doran possesses considerable experience in representing employers in a wide range of contentious and noncontentious matters, including whistleblower allegations, discrimination claims and theft of trade secrets claims.

John Alan Doran is among the best labor and employment lawyers in the country.

John Alan Doran is a very effective communicator and strategic thinker.

John Alan Doran is reliable, thoughtful and an exceptional investigator.

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