D. Albert Brannen

Recent Examples of Cases Handled:

• Represented a large national provider of emergency care services in defeating a union by a large margin after the union signed up more than three-quarters of the employees. This matter proceeded very quickly under the NLRB’s new procedures.
• Successfully represented an electric cooperative in an arbitration with a long term employee who caused serious damage to a bucket truck.
• Successfully represented a distribution employer in an arbitration regarding their driver who got into an altercation on a customer’s loading dock.
• Served as the lead negotiator in collective bargaining negotiations which resulted in more than a million dollars of savings for a national distribution client.
• Prepared and conducted a full series of employment and labor law training, extending monthly over nine months, for all of the employer’s managers and supervisors. This extensive training program was just a part of the employer’s orchestrated effort to increase employee engagement.
• Advised a mining client during a major reduction in force.
• Conducted a comprehensive wage and hour review for a group of automobile dealerships to help them get into compliance with the changes to the white collar exemptions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
• Advised a construction client on numerous project labor agreements around the U.S.
• Advised construction clients on lawful withdrawal from relationships with building trades unions under Section 8(f) of the National Labor Relations Act. The transition to being union-free occurred without unfair labor practice charges or work stoppages.
• Advised a distribution client whose employees sought to decertify the union that had represented them for decades. Representation of this client before the National Labor Relations Board in connection with this matter resulted in the complete dismissal of multiple unfair labor practice charges prior to an administrative hearing.
• Successfully mediated claims by a partner in a large accounting firm that he was discharged in violation of his partnership agreement.
• Won jury trial in which jury denied a former manager his pro rata share of an annual bonus.
• Part of a team of lawyers that resolved on favorable terms a series of four lawsuits alleging multiple serious violations of Title VII.
• Conducted internal seminars for employers whose employees alleged violations of the employer’s No Harassment policy.
• Reviewed employment agreements placing restrictions on employees and successfully dealt with disputes regarding same.
• Drafted and negotiated Transition Agreements and Employment Agreements for senior executives and other critical employees.
• Successfully resolved four related EEOC charges for a high profile client without any adverse publicity.