About
Jim Hammerschmidt is Co-President of the company, Co-Chair of the Employment Law organization, and a member of its Litigation and Appellate Practice organizations. His exercise consists of more than a few commercial, company, and employment counseling and litigation, but his number one task is listening. The first component Jim does while meeting with a customer is ask, “What is your goal?” In doing this, Jim is able to determine the patron’s expectancies and whether we can be capable of meet them. Only then can he genuinely set approximately meeting his customers’ commercial enterprise wishes.
Jim has full-size enjoy representing and counseling customers on employment regulation problems. He represents clients in federal and kingdom courtroom, in addition to earlier than agencies which include the EEOC, Department of Labor, and nearby and country human rights commissions and hard work departments. He handles claims arising underneath Title VII, ERISA, FLSA, FMLA, ADA, ADEA, Wage Payment and Collection Law, and Wage and Hour Law statutes, consisting of magnificence movements. Jim’s customers regularly want counseling and litigation on a huge variety of employment problems, consisting of breach of contract, wrongful termination, trade secret claims, and non-opposition and non-solicitation agreements. In addition to litigation, Jim gives each day advice to customers handling tough personnel and worker field, and his role as Co-President of the organization places him in a unique position to apply his inner experience to customer problems. He additionally automatically assists customers in developing and enforcing employment rules and practices, drafting employee manuals and making ready employment agreements.
Jim’s general civil litigation and appellate exercise consists of topics concerning real property, land development, breach of contract, trusts and estates, creation, shareholder disputes, enterprise disputes, protection of alternate secrets and exclusive data among many others. His important interest to element and get admission to to a strong litigation branch puts customers at ease.
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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
- Litigation: Business
- Litigation: Individual
Costs
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Co-President
Paley Rothman
Educations
Graduation year: 1993
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