Employment Law

The Law Offices of Montgomery G. Griffin advises our clients on a broad range of employment matters, including zealously seeking justice for our clients by litigating or arbitrating claims, when necessary, for wrongful termination, retaliation, wage and hour violations (including unpaid overtime), breach of contract, defamation, violation of family leave laws, discrimination, sexual harassment, and many other claims. Indeed, following his retirement from PaineWebber in 1995, Monty worked as a law clerk in the Employment Discrimination division of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker (after which Monty’s work at Paul Hastings was acknowledged in the treatise EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION, GROSSMAN & SCHLEI, (2d ed. 1996)).

In addition, Montgomery Griffin has handled claims relating to trade secret violations, non-competition and non-solicitation issues, and other unfair business practices claims.

Our firm also prepares employment applications, employment agreements (contracts), independent contractor agreements, employee handbooks, binding arbitration agreements, at-will agreements, and a variety of other agreements.

In September 2008, our firm obtained a successful outcome for a registered representative (claimant) in a FINRA arbitration matter (LoCoco v. Washington Mutual Financial Services, Inc., FINRA case number 06-04695) which involved a claim for approximately $1.2 million in damages, as well as an application for the expungement of two items from our client’s regulatory records (both of which were unanimously granted by the full Panel following a 15-month arbitration process and hearing on the merits).