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Partner
Labor & Employment
Norfolk
(757) 640-5324 Phone
(757) 625-7720 Fax
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Labor & Employment
Wage and Hour
Litigation Practice
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Practice focuses on all aspects of labor and employment law, including trials in Title VII, ADEA, ADA, workplace harassment and other employment discrimination cases; wrongful discharge, whistleblower and other employment torts; FLSA and other wage-hour litigation; ERISA and WARN Act litigation; no-compete and trade secret litigation; labor arbitration, NLRB cases, contract negotiation and representation in union elections and strikes; occupational safety and health; employee benefits litigation; workplace drug testing; and related advice matters.
Relevant Experience 
- Extensive labor and employment litigation experience in federal and state courts, before administrative agencies and in arbitration hearings.
- Extensive wage-hour class action experience for numerous employers in federal and state courts in several states.
- Handled numerous workplace harassment and other employment discrimination suits in federal courts in several states.
- Represented large employers in labor preemption cases, including successful, multiyear challenge to state laws restricting right to operate during strikes.
- Represented Fortune 500 employer in RICO action arising out of "corporate campaign" by international labor union.
- Represented Fortune 100 employer in WARN Act suit by union on behalf of over 500 employees.
- Substantial labor relations experience, including NLRB litigation, labor arbitration, representation in strikes and related litigation and negotiation of collective bargaining agreements.
- Extensive experience in the transportation industry.
- Extensive experience in workplace drug testing issues.
Background
- U.S. Marine Corps, 1973–86
- Special Assistant U.S. Attorney 1982–83
Membership
- Member, Virginia State Bar, American Bar Association, Virginia Bar Association
Awards and Professional Recognition
Education - J.D., Tulane University Law School, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Board of Editors, Tulane Law Review, 1980
- B.S., Northwestern University, 1973
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James Naughton
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