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Frank Birchfield

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Frank provides a comprehensive array of services to employers, including a broad traditional labor practice of handling union elections, litigating before the NLRB, and collective bargaining, as well as core employment law compliance, litigation of employment and commercial claims, and class action management. In providing a broad range of counsel, Frank assists large and small companies in evaluating exposure to union organizing and navigating pre- and post-election labor relations. In addition, Frank provides general corporate policy advice and risk analysis in a variety of areas touching on employee relationships, including alternative dispute resolution, regulatory compliance, unfair competition and restrictive covenants, compensation and benefits, privacy, and corporate operations. Frank works with employers across a variety of industries such as financial services, technology, health care, building engineering and maintenance, hospitality, media, automotive, and shipping and transportation.

Frank’s employment practice is based on decades of experience counseling employers and litigating on their behalf in response to labor relations matters, discrimination and harassment complaints, and wage and hour issues. Frank has advised employers targeted by union corporate campaigns, including the coordination of the employer’s response to non-traditional union pressure involving media relations, political affairs, regulatory compliance, and shareholder communications. In addition to handling employment litigation for employers, Frank conducts harassment training and investigations, as well as providing ongoing counseling on a day-to-day basis regarding the entire employment life cycle . Frank also works extensively with employers to analyze, draft, and litigate the enforceability of restrictive covenants such as non-competition/non-solicitation clauses and trade secret and confidentiality protections.

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