Labor & Employment

At Balch & Bingham, we focus on developing long-term relationships with clients based on trust, service, and helping clients achieve their business goals. We recognize that understanding your business is essential to representing your interests and providing effective, practical and creative solutions to your problems. Providing the highest quality services in a prompt, attentive, and thoughtful manner is not a goal but a commitment to our clients.

Our attorneys also understand that clients expect us to provide efficient and cutting-edge services. For these reasons, we believe in leveraging technology for the full benefit of our clients. We utilize programs such as Summation, CaseMap, TimeMap, and Abacus software for efficient case management and analysis, and use Trial Director, along with a dedicated team of experienced operators, to make our trial presentations highly organized and easily understandable to judges, juries and arbitrators. We also have the ability to establish secure web portals (or “extranet”), through which clients and partnering law firms can securely share information such as documents, calendars, and case events to better manage litigation. In addition, all seven of our offices are connected with advanced video conferencing capabilities. With these and other technological resources, Balch & Bingham is well-equipped to deliver legal services in a timely and cost-effective manner tailored to your needs.

Balch & Bingham’s labor and employment law practice group serves employer clients throughout the Southeast and beyond. We focus on providing prompt solutions to human resources issues ranging from run-of-the-mill personnel decisions to break-the-company crises. While we believe management's best defense in today's litigious society is to be proactive in adopting effective policies and procedures, providing effective training for managers and making well-informed decisions, our labor and employment attorneys are prepared to defend our clients in court and before governmental agencies. The L&E practice group can quickly assemble an experienced and knowledgeable team to address any issue faced by any employer, large or small.

Labor & Employment

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

AAA Ambulance Service
Alabama Power Company
American Honda Finance Corporation
ANI Pharmaceuticals
Auburn University
Backlidge Emulsions
Bankcroft Bag, Inc.
BBVA Compass Bank
BE&K
Biltrite Ripley Operations LLC
Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC
Cabela's, Inc.
Callon Petroleum Company
Canizaro, Cawthon & Davis, Architects
Cellular South, Inc.
Cendant
Chemical Lime Company
Cinram, Inc.
Cintas Corporation
Clorox Manufacturing Company
Constructors, Inc.
Delphi Automotive Systems
Dollar Tree Stores
Eaton Corporation
ESPN, Inc.
First American Title Insurance Company
Glasforms, Inc.
Great Barrier Insulation
HealthSouth Corporation
Hillenbrand Industries
Hudson Salvage, Inc.
Intergraph Corporation
L-3 Communications Vertex Aerotech
M.C. Dean, Inc.
MINACT, Inc.
Mississippi Blood Services
Mississippi Home Corporation
Mississippi Power Company
Mississippi Regional Housing Authority
Oil Dri Corporation
Osmose Wood Preserving
Patient's Choice
Pharm Pac, LLC
Plymouth Tube Company
Regions Bank/Regions Mortgage
Roy Anderson Construction Company
Sherman Industries, Inc.
Siemens Power
Skilstaf
SouthEast Waffles
Southern Cast Products
Southern Company
Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex
Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center
TAMKO Roofing Products, Inc.
The Clarion-Ledger
The Gastroenterology Center
Turner Industries
Wayne Farms, LLC
Wayne General Hospital

RELATED PRACTICES

Representative Experience

Cynthia Parker v. Intergraph Corporation-tried a state court sexual harassment case to a jury and won a defense verdict.

Ralph Jones Et Al. v. Robinson Property Group, N.D. Miss.-obtained summary judgment dismissing race-based failure to hire claims against casino poker room.

We recently obtained summary judgment dismissing retaliatory discharge claim by an employee who stole food processor's lab samples and gave them to the U.S.D.A. to support claimed falsification of bacterial test results.

We have defended multiple FLSA collective actions based on claim of failure to pay employees for time spent donning and doffing work clothing and personal protective equipment.

United States v. Jefferson County, Alabama-we represented the court-appointed Receiver of the Personnel Board of Jefferson County in efforts to reform the civil service system governing Jefferson County, Alabama.

We handled a Multi-state Department of Labor Wage Investigation relating unpaid overtime.

We have drafted human resources policies for regional companies.

Litigated twenty-plaintiff case involving discrimination and benefits claims arising out of sale of business.

Performed internal investigation of corporate fraud by corporate executives.

Handled union election campaign for automotive supplier and union organizing campaigns for national retailer in Northeast United States.

Conducted comprehensive audit of grievance/concerns program for multi-state employer.

Won dismissal of potential 2,000 + employee class action under Section 301 alleging breach of wage provisions in collective bargaining agreement.

Won discharge arbitration involving falsification of records.

Secured temporary restraining orders in numerous cases involving trade secrets and non-compete agreements.

Joseph Conner v. Canadian National Railway and Keith Hancock, S.D. Miss.-obtained summary judgment of intentional infliction claim against Supervising Engineer accused of verbally and physically harassing/assaulting Engineer Trainee.

David Horgrow v. Wayne Farms, S.D. Miss.-obtained summary judgment of race/gender based harassment/termination and health benefit denial claims of Quality Control Inspector at poultry plant.

Rory White v. Robinson Property Group, Pamela Holub and Ciny Goldiwng, N.D. Miss.-obtained summary judgment of intentional/negligent infliction and state law wrongful discharge claims of black-jack dealer who complained about casino's failure to take action against patron who assaulted dealer and thereafter suffered emotional distress leading to attendance problems and termination.

Tina Davis v. The Clarion Ledger, Mississippi Workers' Compensation Commission-obtained dismissal of newspaper carrier's workers' compensation claim before Commission and after appeal to Circuit Court based on carrier's status as independent contractor.