How to Conduct Workplace Investigations: Managing Complaints of Employee Misconduct

Ms. Barr focuses her practice on helping employers avoid and resolve labor and employment law issues. She has extensive experience in litigation, collective bargaining, mediation, and arbitration, practicing before the EEOC, Ohio Civil Rights Commission, and both state and federal courts. Ms. Barr has represented a wide variety of employers—both public and private—in employment litigation and has successfully litigated cases involving employment discrimination, retaliation, and trade secrets as well as several wage and hour class and collective actions. In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Barr counsels employers on union relations, Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act as well as various state and federal wage and hour laws. She also routinely advises clients on employee handbooks and policies, restrictive covenants, such as noncompetition and non-solicitation agreements, and provides counsel on employment agreements and exit plans. 

Mr. Rhodes advises companies and executives, representing them in the structuring, drafting and defending of their corporate transactions and employment practices to help accomplish their business goals. His practice focuses on employment disputes in the areas of non-competes, compensation, wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful discharge, whistleblower, severance, and benefits issues.