Los Angeles, Ca., USA - February 24, 2010, Los Angeles, Ca., USA - Arent Fox LLP announced that leading labor and employment lawyer Harry I. Johnson III has joined the firm as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office.
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Mr. Johnson's practice and experience cover the full range of labor and employment law, including wage-hour complex litigation, traditional labor, other employment litigation, and client counseling and advice. He comes to Arent Fox from Jones Day, where he served as the practice coordinator of the management-side attorneys that made up that firm's labor and employment practice in Los Angeles.
Mr. Johnson counsels clients in addressing issues posed by California and federal labor and employment law. In the traditional labor field, Mr. Johnson has represented clients in NLRB unfair labor practice hearings, union representation campaigns, union corporate campaigns, labor arbitrations, assistance with collective bargaining, and Section 10(j) injunction hearings. Traditional labor issues span an array of topics, including information requests, collective bargaining subjects, representation campaigns, alleged anti-union discrimination/coercion, and successorship issues.
In the employment arena, his practice includes litigation of California and federal wage-hour class and collective action cases, California and federal employment discrimination cases, as well as general civil employment litigation, arbitration, and mediation.
In the specific area of discrimination law, he has provided guidance to employers in disparate impact and treatment claims of alleged racial, sexual, age, national origin, disability, and sexual orientation discrimination; harassment claims and investigation; retaliation claims; and disability accommodation.
Mr. Johnson has represented clients in a wide variety of businesses and industrial sectors, including news and media organizations, health care facilities, grocery companies, automotive and automotive supply manufacturers, retail companies and government entities.
He is a much sought after author and lecturer on issues of labor and employment law, with his articles appearing in professional and trade publications such as Employee Relations Law Journal; the ABTL [Association of Business Trial Lawyers] Report; Daily Journal and the American Hospital Association's Health Care Labor Report. He has spoken at American Conference Institute's “Wage & Hour Claims and Class Actions†Conference and various other law and employment legal and legislative briefings across the country. ■