Suarez|Griffin phone 813-433-9003
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Practice Areas & Services

Practice Areas

Suarez|Griffin’s philosophy of promoting the strategies of effectiveness and productivity permeates all of its practice areas and is a guiding force in its approach to representing clients. Our primary practice areas include:

  • Employment Litigation
  • Traditional Labor Law
  • Workers’ Compensation
  • Immigration
  • Strategic Labor-Management Assessments

Professional Services

I. Employment Litigation

  • Litigation Avoidance Strategies
  • Litigation Management Strategies
  • Responses to Administrative Charges and Investigations
    • EEOC, DOL (Wage & Hour Division), OSHA, and Other Federal Agencies
    • State Agencies that Enforce Various Employment Laws
    • Local Governments
  • Defenses of Federal and State Court Legal Actions
    • Discrimination, Harassment, Retaliation, and Other Claims
    • Compensation and Benefits Claims
    • Breach of Employment Agreement Claims
    • OSHA, DOL, and Other Administrative Agency Claims
    • Class Action Claims
  • Pursuit of Legal Actions in Federal or State Court
    • Enforcement of Non-compete Agreements and Other Restrictive Covenants
    • Trade Secret and Confidential Information Protection
    • Employee Theft and Similar Matters
  • Development and Implementation of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Strategies
    • Arbitration and Mediation Strategies
  • Preparation of Separation, Release, or Waiver Agreements

II. Traditional Labor Law

  • Union-free Workplace Strategies
  • Effective Union-free Workplace Campaigns
  • Defense of Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Charges Filed Against Employers
  • Proactive Labor Relations Strategies
  • Collective Bargaining Negotiations
  • Grievance and Interest Arbitrations

III. Worker’s Compensation

  • Cost Reduction Programs
  • Defense of Compensation and Retaliatory Discharge Claims
  • Workers’ Compensation Supervisory and Management Training
  • Representation of Employers in Coverage matters

IV. Immigration

  • Adjustment of Status/Permanent Residence Processing
  • Business, Professional, Investor and Religious Worker Visas (B,E,H,L,O,P,R Visas)
  • Employment/Corporate Immigration Matters (I-9 Compliance)
  • Family Visa Matters, Including Marriage and Fiancé Visas
  • Labor Certification Processing
  • Overseas Consular Processing
  • Student Visa Matters (F)
  • U.S. Citizenship

V. Strategic Labor-Management Assessments

To help clients strengthen their organizations, Suarez|Griffin provides a comprehensive analysis of the overall strength of a client’s human resources management policies and practices. Unlike most firm audit services, Suarez|Griffin, through its affiliated employer group, Integrated Employer Resource (IER) has developed a unique process, custom tailored to suit our clients’ needs. The firm assesses a client’s organization and provides:

  • Detailed report concerning the strengths and concerns of individual management team members.
  • The perspectives of both management team and employees with respect to the various topical issues at the client’s facility.
  • The client’s vulnerability to unionization and other employment-related lawsuits.

The Labor Management Assessment (LMA) is a tool that will enable clients to identify areas of concern and change strategies to promote higher productivity and profits.

Additional Services

Newsletter

Suarez|Griffin publishes through its affiliated employer group a monthly newsletter to clients and other human resources and management professionals that address human resources and business management topics that help clients strengthen their organizations. The newsletter provides brief legal updates as well as valuable advice for clients’ business operations from leading human resources and business management experts.

Seminars

Suarez|Griffin develop and conduct seminars for specific industries, trade associations, or groups of clients that go beyond the usual legal update or briefings offered by other firms. The firm’s seminars provide legal updates complemented by the firm’s human resources and business management advice that give clients industry-specific strategies to implement. As a value-added service, most seminar attendees receive the added benefit of a personal, on-site visit by one of our attorneys or advisors. Most labor and employment law firms simply do not provide firms with this level of personal attention, but merely use seminars as narrowly focused legal updates without regard to industry-specific developments or broader business concerns.
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