CLIENT SERVICES

Klein Dub & Holleb, Ltd. offers full-service, prevention-focused labor and employment law counseling for management clients. We seek first to understand the client’s employment culture to help identify and solve potential and actual issues before they become costly disputes. Our experience in virtually every area of labor and employment law enables our lawyers to emphasize early case evaluation and the delivery of cost-effective representation. We have been awarded an "AV" rating from Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, the highest rating awarded by that service.

Our attorneys have served employers in a wide range of industries, including:

Klein Dub & Holleb, Ltd. successfully counsels clients and, when necessary, defends their actions in workplace matters involving a wide range of issues. Our attorneys offer expertise in the following areas:

GENERAL EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN RESOURCE MATTERS:

• general labor counseling on all personnel and human resources matters for unionized and non-unionized employers

• conducting on-site supervisory training and development workshops on fostering human relation skills; promoting bias-free job performance evaluations, hirings, and terminations; avoiding grievances; alcohol and drug abuse; and avoidance of wrongful termination claims

• developing enhanced employee communications

• labor and employment law audits to evaluate compliance with state and federal labor and employment laws

• personnel services including drafting employee manuals, developing performance appraisal systems, and analyzing wage and benefit structures

• guiding executives through compliance inquiries and issues

LABOR RELATIONS MATTERS:

• maintaining a union-free environment

• identification of and advice on elimination of employee discontent

• double-breasted businesses

• compliance under the National Labor Relations Act

• unfair labor practice proceedings and labor injunctions

• guiding companies through purchase and acquisition issues such as successorship, alter ego, plant relocations, and closings

• decertification of unions

• serving as advisor and/or spokesperson in collective bargaining negotiations

• strike contingency planning

• grievance handling and arbitration of labor disputes

• contract interpretation and administration

• counseling multi-employer Taft-Hartley Pension and Welfare Funds

EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION MATTERS:

• Employment discrimination representation in litigation before both administrative agencies and the courts

• preventive counseling to avoid allegations of discrimination based on sex, race, age, national origin, pregnancy, marital status, disability, religion and other prohibited forms of discrimination

• avoidance of sexual harassment claims including serving as an outside investigator for sexual harassment allegations

• issues arising under the Family and Medical Leave Act

WAGE AND HOUR MATTERS:

• assisting clients in the development of wage and hour compliance programs

• providing advice on compliance issues and legal developments

• representation in state and federal wage and hour audits or investigations

• compliance with child labor laws

• providing counsel regarding independent contractor and joint employer status

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR MATTERS:

• Affirmative Action compliance for clients who are government contractors and/or recipients of government financial assistance

• drafting affirmative action plans and programs of compliance

• providing counsel and representation in compliance reviews, audits, and in the negotiation and resolution phases when deficiencies are alleged by the administrative agency

WRONGFUL TERMINATION AND BUSINESS TORTS:

• providing ongoing counsel to avoid claims of breach of express or implied contract under employee handbooks or company policies, wrongful discharge, claims of retaliatory discharge and issues of assault, battery, defamation (libel and slander), negligent hiring and retention, violence in the workplace, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, and other individual-employee causes of action

• defense of employers in court litigation

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS, INCLUDING: 

• confidentiality agreements, non-disclosure and non-competition agreements

• counseling and litigation support when injunctions are required to protect the client’s business interests

DRUG FREE WORKPLACE COMPLIANCE:

LITIGATION SERVICES

Total client service requires the recognition of the realities of today’s litigious society. We will, therefore, continue to cultivate our reputation for creative client representation in adversarial proceedings before local, state, and federal administrative agencies and in state and federal court. Sound, aggressive defense of client interests and the containment of frivolous claims goes hand-in-hand with our progressive philosophy of human resource management. Consistent with that philosophy, we are committed to both understanding and acting on the practical and legal implications of litigation tactics and costs. Once again, our ultimate mission is to satisfy our clients.

 

 Our Service Philosophy

We add value to our clients by combining high-quality legal work with efficient, responsive delivery of services. We handle all matters promptly, cost-effectively, and consistent with our clients’ business philosophies and goals. We pay particular attention to:

• maintaining a level of responsiveness that is unparalleled in the legal community;
• the right kind of billing arrangement for each client - whether by flat fee retainer, a project fee, or on an hourly rate basis;
• appropriate staffing, including ensuring that work is performed consistent with each professional’s experience and billing rate;
• continuity of staffing;
• the reasonableness of the time spent on each task; and
• judgment in applying a common-sense, "cost-benefit" approach regarding our clients’ interests at every stage of the proceedings.

ALTERNATIVE BILLING METHODS

We know that clients benefit greatly from being able to accurately predict their legal fees for a given fiscal year. Because of the size and entrepreneurial spirit of our firm, we have historically been able to offer flexible pricing for our services for clients that have requested such options.

Although the traditional method for charging for our services is on an hourly basis, we develop creative fee arrangements to meet out clients’ particular needs. These arrangements provide more predictability, value, and proportionality to the cost of our clients' outside legal matters. Simply put, we will work with you to evaluate the full range of billing strategies to meet your business goals.

 

BILLING POLICY

Each invoice for legal services rendered will contain the following information:

• law firm name, mailing address, federal tax identification number, and billing date;
• firm lawyer(s) responsible for the matter;
• the period the bill covers;
• the hours billed and rate charged for each lawyer and legal assistant on all hourly matters;
• line-item entries identifying each day a billed service was rendered, the time charged each day, the name of the lawyer, legal assistant, or law clerk who performed the service, and a description of the service; and
• line-item entries identifying each day a reimbursable expense was incurred, and a description of the expense