Legal peers across the region refer their employment law clients to Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC, because:
The legal team at Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC accepts referrals for employment law cases involving matters such as the following.
Discrimination/Retaliation
We can help workers pursue legal relief or compensation after adverse employment decisions, such as refusals to hire/promote, denials of pay raises or bonuses, denial of training or career advancement opportunities, or termination based on an employee’s protected characteristics.
Our firm works extensively in cases involving whistleblowers. We protect the rights and interests of workers who courageously report illegal or unethical conduct by their employers or participate in official investigations or proceedings regarding such conduct. Our attorneys can help workers protect themselves from retaliatory conduct by employers or pursue legal relief after suffering retaliation, such as demotions, denials of promotions/pay raises, assignment of undesirable tasks, or termination.
Employment and Executive Compensation Agreements
We have considerable experience negotiating employment contracts and executive compensation agreements for workers and executives. We can help workers fight for fair terms and compensation in contracts, protecting their interests and future opportunities regarding contract terms such as confidentiality provisions, non-compete agreements, and salary/benefits. Our firm can also help executives and high-level employees negotiate compensation agreements that include deferred compensation arrangements, stock options, restricted stock units, or profit shares.
Our attorneys advocate for workers who have experienced an employer’s interference with or retaliation for a worker’s exercise of their rights to job-protected leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. We can help employees pursue legal action to secure their right to take job-protected leave or file claims when an employer retaliates against them for taking FMLA leave. We step in when lawyers have refused to retain a worker, wrongfully terminated the worker, or denied promotions, pay raises, or other benefits or opportunities to punish the worker for taking leave.
Our firm represents employees with wage-and-hour claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act. We can help your client pursue legal actions involving minimum wage claims, unpaid overtime compensation, or gender-based pay disparity claims.
We regularly work with employees who negotiate severance agreements with their employers. Our firm knows how to protect an employee’s interests, whether their employer has offered them a severance agreement as standard practice of employment or they need to negotiate an agreement to resolve outstanding legal disputes as part of their severance. Our attorneys will vigorously negotiate on behalf of clients to secure maximum compensation and fair terms.
We encourage you to schedule an initial consultation and case screening with our legal team to discuss the basic details of your employment law case. Our attorneys will review it to determine if we can help and conduct conflict checks.
Should we accept your case referral, you can expect us to communicate openly about the case’s progress with you according to your preferences and as permitted by ethics rules. Our firm can also negotiate fee-sharing or referral fee agreements as allowed by the rules of professional conduct. We can also discuss co-counsel arrangements as appropriate.
Our legal team strives to maintain a seamless experience for both the attorneys who refer their employment law cases to us and the clients who trusted them in the first place.
When you refer a client or case to Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC, you can rest assured that our firm will respect and preserve your existing relationship with your client, focusing our efforts on helping your client with the employment law matter you’ve referred to us. Our firm will not solicit clients for unrelated work or legal cases unless you and our firm have agreed to allow such solicitations. We accept and work on referred cases within the requirements and guidelines of the Rules of Professional Conduct in the jurisdictions where we practice.
If required, our firm can provide clear and timely updates on case statuses, significant developments, and eventual outcomes. We can also discuss co-counsel and collaborative litigation arrangements with referring attorneys.
We will negotiate referral fees as permitted by the applicable rules of professional conduct and disclose referral fee agreements to clients as required by ethics rules.
At Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC, we know that many people turn to an attorney they have worked with before for help with a new legal matter, even if the attorney doesn’t practice in that field of law. Our firm accepts referrals from attorneys with past or current clients seeking legal counsel for employment law matters. We also work with general practitioners and other employment law attorneys who need experienced co-counsel to provide additional insight and support for complex cases. We accept employment law case referrals from attorneys practicing in different areas of law or other jurisdictions.
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