Practice Area Overview

Dallas, Texas, Employment Law Attorneys

Employee Relations, Union Relations, Governmental Relations, Litigation, and Training

At the Key Firm, our attorneys are counselors to business owners, managers, and human resources personnel. Our Texas employment law attorneys maintain quality relationships with our clients and offer comprehensive counsel on issues involving human resources. We value our long-term relationships with clients and partnering together to proactively avoid conflict and expensive courtroom battles.

If you own a small to medium sized business, contact one of our Dallas, Texas, employment law attorneys at 214.550.1800.

Labor and Employment Law Attorneys for Employers

We offer cost-effective, value-oriented counsel in all areas of labor and employment law, including:

Employee Relations: Our aim is to partner with our clients to create rewarding and meaningful workplace environments where employees find predictable and defined expectations, recognition and reward for accomplishment, and trustworthy and knowledgeable supervision. We have found that clients who adopt our model are substantially less likely to face third party intervention from lawyers, labor unions or governmental agencies. We recommend a five-step approach to successful employee relations:

• Comprehensive Self-audit of HR Practices to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your human resources function.
• Management Training: Arming your management team with the tools necessary to confidently and lawfully lead your workforce.
• Routine Counsel: Our attorneys can help you avoid most problems with a 15-minute proactive telephone call.
• Maintenance and Updates: Helping you stay current in one of the most dynamic areas of the law.
• Conflict Resolution: Result-oriented guidance through the many alternative paths to resolution, such as internal grievance programs, mediation, arbitration and litigation.

Union Relations: We believe that most employees are better off without third-party union representation. Thus, our primary goal is to avoid union intervention altogether. However, in those circumstances where past history, client preference, or industry dynamics dictate otherwise, our labor attorneys are experienced in effectively guiding you to particular goals.

• Union Elections: Our attorneys have faced over seventy union election campaigns without a single loss.* We hold our success record in this area jealously and would proudly stack it up against any other firm or labor consultant in the country.
• Audit of Vulnerability: Don't wait for the union to show up. We can proactively and accurately assess your vulnerability to union organizing in a matter of days and provide you with simple, cost-effective strategies for shoring up your weaknesses.
• Management Training: We will arm your management team with the tools to confidently and effectively manage your workforce before, during and after a union organizing drive.
• Collective Bargaining: The union will show up with a trained professional to lead their negotiating team. You should too. We have the experience you need to achieve your goals at the bargaining table.
• Strike and Picket Line Management: Strikes and pickets can be devastating to your workforce, your customer relationships and your organizational future. Do not resort to self-help. We can guide you through this daunting experience.
• NLRB Litigation: Our attorneys have handled hundreds of unfair labor practice charges. We know the laws and we know the NLRB agents who enforce them.

Governmental Relations: Do your managers know what to do when a government agent shows up at your facility demanding access to your documents or work areas? Are you prepared for a government audit of your wage and hour or safety policies? Are you a first or second tier government contractor? Our attorneys are experienced in effectively managing your relationships with the dozens of local, state and federal agencies charged with regulating your human resources practices.

• Comprehensive Self-Audit of HR practices: As part of our comprehensive audit, we can identify areas where you may be deficient in the eyes of a government auditor and counsel you on creative, cost-effective strategies for coming into compliance without unreasonably compromising your business goals.
• Management Training: Your supervisors need to know how to respond to a surprise visit by a government agent. There is a fine line between preserving your rights as a corporate citizen and stirring up unnecessary hostility from an overzealous regulatory official. We can provide your managers with the tools to confidently walk that delicate line.
• Audit Response: Bringing in the right attorney can be the difference between a successful audit and a failure. Our attorneys are experienced in leading you through this often daunting process while maintaining as appropriately positive working relationship with the government official as possible under the circumstances.

To learn more about how we can help you create a positive, productive work environment where employees are less likely to seek outside assistance, contact a Dallas, Texas, labor and employment law attorney at 214.550.1800.

Representing small to medium sized business management in all matters of labor, personnel, and governmental relations. Work with Stephen Key, a Texas Super Lawyer.

*You should not rely on the results of our previous cases as an indication of the results you might expect in your case. We cannot guarantee or even accurately predict the results of any case. No two cases are alike and, despite our best efforts, we may not be able to achieve results in your case that are similar to results obtained in the past.