About
JIM BARNA BRINGS A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE TO EMPLOYMENT LAW REPRESENTATION. Throughout his profession, Jim Barna has centered his practice on employment law. Jim did his undergraduate studies at Syracuse University and Stony Brook University. Jim attended regulation college at Washington University in St. Louis, a Top Twenty law school with an in depth employment law curriculum. While in regulation faculty, he had the opportunity to paintings for a countrywide leader in employment law and womens rights litigation, Mary Anne Sedey. “From Mary Anne Sedey, I saw that big instances can convey big adjustments, and that a existence committed to looking for justice can coincide with achievement for customers and legal professionals.” After he graduated from regulation faculty in 1996, Jim spent ten years running for nationally diagnosed employment regulation places of work in Memphis, Tennessee, a center of hard work and employment law work. During that time, he handled litigation matters in 22 states, and the District of Columbia. Jim has owned practices in Maine and New York on account that that point, continuing to symbolize corporate employers as well as personnel. His specialties consist of settlement negotiations for executives and physicians, EPLI (employment practices liability coverage) defense, place of business discrimination, harassment, different workplace related criminal issues, and hard work law. In 2002, Jim changed into associate counsel, and coauthor of the victorious deserves brief, inside the first Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) case to be heard by america Supreme Court, Ragsdale v. Wolverine World Wide, Inc., 535 U.S. eighty one (2002). He is a member of the Bar of america Supreme Court. Jim is holds law licenses in New York, Maine, Tennessee, and Mississippi, and represents customers in the course of the US. › ›
Location
Legal Issues
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
Costs
- Payment With Credit Card
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Conditional Fees
Contingent expenses regular for specifically strong cases. -
Retaines and Rates
Fees can be flat price, hourly, contingent, or a aggregate of these relying on the desires of the client and the electricity of the case.
Certificates
Onondaga County, New York, Clerks Office
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Owner
The Barna Law Office
2017 - Special Counsel
Costello Cooney Fearon PLLC
2014 - Principal
The Barna Law Office
2008 - Principal
Down East Law & Litigation
2006 - Senior Associate
Weintraub Stock & Grisham
1999 - Lawyer
Waggoner Law Office
1998 - Associate
Ford & Harrison
1996
Educations
Graduation year: 1993
Graduation year: 1989
Graduation year: 1987
