Litigation & Appeals

Employment Litigation

The Employment Law Service Group practices much like a “boutique firm” within Stites & Harbison. From workforce-reduction issues to dealing with the Family Medical Leave Act and everything in between, the Employment Law Service Group at Stites & Harbison focuses on providing clients with creative, competitive, and cost-effective employment law solutions. Our group’s diverse and experienced employment litigation attorneys know that responsiveness in helping employers avoid immediate employment law problems is critical. Clients can count on a high level of service with a seamless team approach from our offices in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Georgia.

Our group is dedicated to providing employers with vigorous and zealous defense of all employee-driven lawsuits. Many of the group's attorneys have extensive first-chair trial experience before arbitrators, judges and juries in both employment matters and in business litigation, and are adept at developing and implementing first chair strategy.

The members of our group also understand when it is in the client's best interest to reach a settlement in order to prevent extensive litigation. We will not hesitate to recommend and facilitate as favorable resolution for the client as quickly as possible.

In addition to handling EEOC and state administrative charges, the group litigates complex civil suits involving a wide variety of federal and state discrimination claims, including cases alleging:

  • Sex, age, race, religion, or national origin discrimination
  • Sexual harassment
  • ADA
  • FMLA
  • Wrongful discharge
  • Wage and hour disputes

In litigation involving the breach of covenants-not-to-compete, confidentiality agreements, and nonsolicitation agreements, our seasoned employment litigation lawyers successfully prosecute and defend TROs and other injunctive-relief motions at both the state and federal levels.

Applying in-depth litigation knowledge to develop practical preventative-counseling solutions for clients is another strength of our group. We also provide materials to fit specific client needs for in-house training. Group members regularly draft and review employment documents including employee handbooks, employee contracts, and severance agreements.

Our employment litigation attorneys are frequent speakers on a variety of employment law topics, and have authored numerous articles on employment law issues. The group also regularly sends out Client-Alerts via e-mail to ensure our clients receive up-to-date information in employment-law developments that could impact their businesses.

Several members of our group have also authored treatises on employment law and personnel practice published by the state Chamber of Commerce.

The Employment Law Service Group is always "on the job for you."

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The Uncertain Future of the FTC Ban on Employment Non-Compete Agreements

Date: 2/19/25
Time: 1:00 a.m. EST - 3:10 p.m. EST

Webinar

TJ Mihill will be a speaker at this myLawCLE webinar on February 19, 2025. The webinar will cover the legal challenges of the Federal Trade Commissions ban of the use of non-compete agreements in employment settings.

Thomas J. Mihill (TJ) February 11, 2025