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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. I am in the L&E group, which has been busy. Practice group leader told an of counsel in the group that the firm is seriously looking at furloughs and layoffs, including for partners without a 100% equity interest in the firm.

I’m a traditional labor lawyer and service the book of a fairly of a fairly big rainmaker so I hopefully have some job protection, but who knows. [b]The employment litigators have to be fairly worried right now[/b]. [/quote]
Haven't they been busy counseling clients on FFCRA, CARES, WARN, furloughs, unemployment, severance agreements? The ones I know have been. I can see why traditional labor would not be as busy with manufacturing shut down. [/quote]

It depends.  If you are a pure litigator, you really aren’t that qualified to do the counseling side as they are very different skill sets.  I would expect the litigation to heat up at some point, but it will be hard to prove that layoffs were X protected class related, when it will be easy to point to the pandemic.[/quote]

OP here. at my firm, the employment people do both.  i suppose they call people in from the litigation group from time to time (who definitely aren't qualified to give advice) in certain cases.  lol at biglaw litigation in general.  we in the traditional labor subgroup (or whatever one properly calls it) have more "courtroom" experience than most of the litigators at my firm because we try cases all the time before the NLRB, as well as arbitrations (although those can get awfully informal and start not to resemble a court proceeding). [/quote]

Uh, NLRB hearings are semi-informal too.[/quote]

they're formal enough, in that the rules of evidence are generally strictly enforced.  they certainly serve as better courtroom experience than papering a lawsuit, depositions and settling after your MSJ gets denied. [/quote]

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