Labor & Employment
USA Guide 2024 : Texas
Band 2
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Provided by Haynes and Boone, LLP
Our lawyers handle complex, high-stakes labor and employment matters facing management teams across the U.S., with a keen understanding of the need to balance legal options against company strategy. We also handle high-level executive compensation issues for public companies, hedge funds and private equity firms. Similarly, we play an integral role in major transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, providing advice and counsel, and drafting employment-related provisions or agreements.
We have extensive experience litigating and counseling clients on wage/hour issues; labor/management relations and arbitration; unfair competition/trade secrets; advanced-leave issues; OSHA/workplace disasters; ERISA claims; immigration; and pandemic-related issues.
Our group appeared across the country in wage/hour class actions and throughout Texas in injunctive relief proceedings involving unfair competition and trade secrets. We successfully tried cases involving multimillion-dollar claims and achieved favorable and precedent-setting appellate court rulings. We also assisted clients facing aggressive regulatory enforcement by such agencies as the EEOC, NLRB and Department of Labor. We have been national OSHA counsel for one of the largest U.S. retailers for more than a decade.
Our team represents domestic and international businesses across a range of industries, including energy, technology, retail, healthcare, banking, financial services, real estate, manufacturing, and construction.
Chambers Review
Haynes and Boone, LLP is a comprehensive employment offering with national expertise in the field. The firm is known for its work in OSHA and employment litigation and advice. It handles employment questions relating to corporate transactions, as well as acting in unfair competition and trade secret cases. The firm also offers strengths in handling wage and hour collective actions and discrimination claims. It represents clients in the healthcare and retail industries, among others.
Work Highlights
- Haynes and Boone represented BalanceCXI on a breach of non-compete agreements and trade secret misappropriation.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Haynes and Boone is extremely competent and offers dependable and reliable services."
"They focus on providing practical advice and value. They spend a lot of time learning a client's business in order to provide sage advice."
"Every associate and partner at Haynes and Boone is skilled, knowledgeable and works quickly to answer a question."
"They are super efficient and great listeners to their clients' needs."
"Haynes and Boone is extremely competent and offers dependable and reliable services."
"They focus on providing practical advice and value. They spend a lot of time learning a client's business in order to provide sage advice."
"Every associate and partner at Haynes and Boone is skilled, knowledgeable and works quickly to answer a question."
"They are super efficient and great listeners to their clients' needs."
Notable Practitioners
Laura O'Donnell is particularly adept at handling wage and hour class and collective actions, and also assists clients with internal investigations.
"Laura is a great practitioner. She has an ability to read between the lines and disarm opponents, understanding the process and how to bring it to a successful conclusion."
"Laura is a really good lawyer. She is knowledgeable and well prepared."
Matthew Deffebach is especially well versed in workplace safety issues, frequently assisting clients with OSHA inquiries and citations. Additionally, he handles trade secret litigation on behalf of clients. He represents national retailers, among others.
"Matthew is an effective labor and employment litigator and adviser. He's good at coming up with a practical solution."
"He is wonderful and thoughtful. I think very highly of him."
"We consider Matthew as though he is part of our team. He responds quickly to enquiries and we trust his counsel implicitly."
Karen Denney is based in the firm's Fort Worth office. She undertakes the full gamut of employment litigation on behalf of employers.
"Karen handles everything promptly and gives clear direction. She is excellent at being business-focused, asking what it is we want and need."
"Karen is an expert in employment law. She is always quick to respond and provide guidance with a high level of professionalism."
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