Ajamie represents employers and employees across a wide range of industries. We offer preventive counseling, and we litigate all facets of employment disputes. We advise clients in a number of industries, including manufacturing, banking and finance, insurance, real estate and oil and gas. Our clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
We are available to counsel clients on noncompete agreements and restrictive covenants, confidentiality agreements, severance agreements, and anti-discrimination laws. On behalf of employers, we are prepared to bring actions to protect company trade secrets and to defend against claims of wrongful termination. We understand the sensitivity involved in dealing with personnel issues, and our lawyers exercise the upmost discretion in all employment matters.
The firm takes an interdisciplinary approach to employment-related matters. We draw on the resources of our lawyers from other practice areas to determine the best course of action for our clients and to form the most effective litigation team.
Representative employment-related matters include:
- Representing the subsidiary of an international corporation in connection with the illegal arrest of the corporation’s employees.
- Advising senior executives seeking employment benefits and other payments owed.
- Evaluating SEC disclosure obligations for executive compensation plans.
- Successfully representing tens of thousands of overseas agricultural workers in litigation brought in United States courts for injuries arising from exposure to pesticides banned in the United States.
- Advising a class of Texas purchasers of workers' compensation insurance in overcharge litigation, yielding settlements refunding the illegal overcharges.
- Successfully representing a manufacturing company in an appeal from a personal injury claim regarding an employee of a staffing company.
- Performing due diligence background investigations for executives.
- Evaluating SEC disclosure obligations for executive compensation plans.