Bill Flanagan has spent his entire legal career at the firm and has represented employers in numerous industries, including health, technology, telecommunications and energy businesses. Bill handles litigation before federal and state courts and agencies on federal and local civil rights, discrimination and family and medical leave matters. He also has considerable experience in other employment matters, including wrongful termination, executive compensation, defamation, trade secret, non-compete, reorganization/restructuring and university tenure issues. His practice includes individual cases and federal class actions, mediations, and arbitrations. Bill regularly counsels and advises clients and provides training on a broad range of employment matters and personnel policies and practices. Bill has focused significantly on particular employment matters facing emerging , new-economy and global companies.

Representative Experience

Defending a large energy company in a class action discrimination case involving hundreds of current and former employees.

Obtaining a temporary injunction from a Virginia state court and then a permanent injunction after a team member on a large government contract solicited over 100 of the client's employees.

On behalf of a major health company, halting the efforts of eleven former sales executives who left the client's employment, started a competing business with a confusingly similar name, and then solicited the client's customers.

Winning a reverse discrimination employment dispute following a jury trial.