We represent individuals in a variety of matters arising from their employment. We do not represent employers. Our employment attorney is Peter Helwig, and our employment paralegal is Teshecia Robinson.

Our clients are people from all walks of life: truck drivers, mechanics, doctors, lawyers, construction laborers, equipment operators, assemblers, government employees, nurses, office workers, college professors, machine operators, migrant farmworkers, managers, supervisors, school teachers, homeless and unemployed people, administrators, corporate executives, tech workers, retail clerks, sales people, psychologists, engineers, warehouse workers, paraprofessionals, waiters and waitresses, insurance workers, and landscaping workers.

Most of our clients come to us because they have suffered an “adverse action” by an employer: a firing, refusal to hire, refusal to promote, or on-the-job harassment, also known as a hostile work environment.

Employers take adverse actions against people for a variety of reasons. Not all of them are illegal. It is illegal for an employer to take adverse action because of an individual’s race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, marital status, or disability. It is also illegal to take adverse action because somebody has attempted to organize her fellow employees, has attempted to oppose an unlawful employment practice, or has been a “whistle-blower.” These are the main areas of legal protection of employees, and they form the heart of our employment practice.

Every employee has a legal right to be free from the above types of discrimination and harassment. This includes probationary employees, temporary employees, part-time employees and even, sometimes, so-called “independent contractors.”

Generally, employment cases begin with an employee’s complaint to a government agency, which investigates the complaint and attempts to resolve it. When this fails, there is usually a right to take the matter to court. We represent employees at both levels – the government agency and the court.

In addition, we counsel people regarding their options, and we negotiate settlements of claims, including severance packages. We represent clients in mediation and arbitration – often referred to as “alternative dispute resolution” – on a regular basis.

Initial consultations by telephone are free. If you decide to retain us and we accept your case, representation is usually provided on a “contingent fee” basis. This means that you pay no legal fee up front, and that we receive as our fee a percentage of any amount we recover for you. You are responsible for out-of-pocket costs such as court filing fees and transcript fees. A written agreement is signed at the beginning of representation so that there is no doubt about the terms of representation.

We are strongly committed to providing free initial consultations and advice by telephone for everyone who contacts us with an employment question. As we receive many inquiries each week, we have found a need to set up a system that allows us to respond to everyone without unnecessarily taking time away from our work on behalf of the clients we already have.

The easiest ways to contact us for an initial consultation are to telephone at (863) 648-2958 or toll-free at (888) 288-8078, OR to click here to send us an e-mail. The staff will take down some basic information and will give it to one of our attorneys, who will call you back, usually within 24 hours. If the attorneys are in a trial or depositions or have a brief due the next day, it may take us a little longer to get back to you.

We use a team system for representation in all employment cases. Both attorneys are counsel of record and active participants in each case which is in litigation. In the pre-litigation stage, cases are generally handled by one attorney, working in close collaboration with the team.