Litigation and Trials

The breadth and depth of our litigation experience means that our attorneys have seen it all, uniquely enabling them to skillfully respond to every employment issue our clients face.

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Our team of over 500 litigators understands the significance of litigation outcomes on our clients’ operations and are prepared to skillfully guide them through the turbulence and reach a desirable resolution.

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Your Strategic Partner

With over 20,000 employment lawsuits and over 80,000 charges of discrimination filed each year, even the most diligent employers will face employment litigation and all its associated challenges. Our team includes attorneys from incredibly diverse backgrounds with decades of experience, which gives us the ability to meaningfully assess every situation and develop strategically sound plans in close partnership with our clients. This ensures that business goals and objectives remain a primary consideration through all stages of litigation.

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Experience and Impact

With the ever-increasing number and complexity of employment laws, employers today face a daunting challenge when it comes to properly navigating the legal landscape across multiple jurisdictions. This challenge is compounded by the rapid advance of technologies that are dramatically transforming the modern workplace. These changes require significant operational shifts in the types of employees businesses need and the types of work those employees perform. As a result, the chances of something going awry and leading to litigation increase.

When this happens, employers need a trusted partner to help develop a comprehensive strategy designed to effectively position and win cases. Littler’s experienced litigators have successfully and creatively handled employment issues of all kinds, working hand-in-hand with employers of all sizes, across all industries, in every federal and state jurisdiction.

Leveraging our skill and insightful handling of all manner of employment disputes, we can hit the ground running when those disputes become lawsuits.
With a diverse global team, Littler offers unmatched capability in every aspect of labor and employment law. We guide employers of all sizes and from all industries through all types of litigation.
Handling claims in all substantive areas of labor and employment law in whatever venue and jurisdiction those claims may arise.
Assisting with claims involving retaliation, harassment, discrimination, disability, wrongful termination, torts, protected leaves, unfair competition, ERISA, wage/hour, class actions, executive contracts and beyond.
Understanding the headaches and operational disruptions that lawsuits create and communicating with our clients to ensure their case is handled in a cost-effective manner that is consistent with their business objectives.
Fostering a culture that celebrates original thinking and groundbreaking innovation, demonstrated through creative problem solving and our development of proprietary technology designed to strengthen our work and benefit our clients.
Resolving matters in our clients’ favor via dispositive motions, mediation, or trial, with aggressive representation of our clients’ interests from start to finish, from pre-suit demands through trial and beyond.
Disqualifying opposing experts, both before and at trial, when their opinions lack scientific bases, are based on unreliable principles, or are disconnected from the facts of the case.

4100+ Cases

We have resolved over 2,900 single plaintiff litigation cases and over 1,200 class action litigation cases opened since the beginning of 2020.
Tier 1 Rankings

For 15 years, we have achieved National Tier 1 rankings for “Employment Law – Management” and “Litigation – Labor & Employment,” national tier rankings for “Litigation – ERISA” and Tier 1 rankings in 46 major metropolitan U.S. markets.
95% of Federal Courts

From 2021 through 2024, Littler handled thousands of cases in 89 out of 94 federal court districts – the most of any law firm in the AmLaw 100.

The Litigation and Trials practice group includes more than 500 attorneys prepared to defend clients effectively and aggressively at every stage of litigation, from initial pleadings through trial.
Our attorneys include subject matter leaders in every aspect of employment law, ensuring that your issues are handled correctly from the moment we get involved.
Littler is the world’s largest law firm solely dedicated to representing employers in all manners of disputes, which means we are well positioned to masterfully handle any and all employment claims our clients face.
We adeptly use technology, consultants and experts where appropriate to tell our clients’ stories in the most effective way possible.
Our multidisciplinary approach enables our attorneys to respond quickly and authoritatively to any issues that may arise, whether those issues are substantive or procedural.
Our early strategic focus ensures cases are handled efficiently in a way that minimizes needless legal action and associated legal fees, and helps posture cases appropriately for early resolutions when in our clients’ best interests.
We place consistent and continuous emphasis on our clients’ business needs and goals, ensuring that cases are litigated in a manner that supports those needs and that advances those goals.
We are prepared to confidently take over litigation in order to try cases before juries when counsel at other firms lack trial experience.