Discovery Requests in Employment Litigation Under the Heightened Scrutiny of Rules 26(b) and 34(b)

Mr. Bryton focuses his practice as a labor and employment trial attorney. Utilizing his years of experience as a litigator, he provides training sessions regarding best practices for in-house and human resources professionals. Mr. Bryton also advises on issues including onboarding matters, leaves of absence and accommodations, performance management and discipline, discrimination, harassment, employment policy development and implementation, wage and hour issues, and worker classifications. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Bryton litigated employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and hostile work environment claims as senior counsel in the Labor and Employment Division of the City of New York. 

Mr. Carr has extensive experience conducting internal investigations and representing companies in labor and employment disputes before administrative agencies and in federal court. He secured a jury and bench verdict in favor of a major U.S. city in a federal court case alleging race and political affiliation discrimination. In one of the first district court cases addressing the “ministerial exception” after the Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Our Lady of Guadalupe v. Morrissey-Berru, Mr. Carr successfully won summary judgment in the employer’s favor on a terminated employee’s claim of pregnancy discrimination. He also has experience defending employers against wage-and-hour claims, including securing summary judgment and a circuit court affirmance in an employer’s favor in a case alleging misclassification and unpaid overtime under the FLSA.