Labor and Employment Litigation

High-stakes employment litigation reaches far beyond the personnel file. It encompasses harassment and discrimination claims, whistleblower retaliation and wrongful termination, executive employment and compensation disputes, wage and hour exposure across tips, service charges, and overtime, and the workforce disputes that follow closures and transitions. Hospitality is one of the nation's largest employers, and its workforce disputes carry reputational consequences that outlast any judgment. Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors steps in where the stakes are exceptionally high - often at the executive level or in matters that draw public attention - and where a claim threatens more than a balance sheet. These are the fights that define careers, reshape organizations, and demand principled, unwavering advocacy from the first filing to the final ruling.

The Firm litigates employment matters on both sides of the caption - for individuals pressing career-defining claims and for organizations facing them. Brewer pursues remedies and mounts defenses across state and federal courts and in arbitration, including the shifting limits on forced arbitration that are redrawing where and how these disputes are heard. The Firm's record includes matters that have reached the U.S. Supreme Court, a testament to a relentless approach and cutting-edge legal strategy at the highest levels of the American judiciary.

What sets the Firm apart is an integrated model built for full-spectrum advocacy. Trial lawyers work alongside in-house investigative professionals, including former FBI agents, and public relations professionals who understand that employment fights of this magnitude play out in the press as much as in the courtroom. Brewer is a litigation firm - focused, disciplined, and prepared to prevail where the outcome matters most.

Featured Employment Litigation Matter

Brewer represented former law firm partner Julia Rix in a $20 million sexual harassment and retaliation suit against Polsinelli PC. In September 2025, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled against Polsinelli, holding that the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act barred the firm from compelling her claims into private arbitration - clearing the way for the case to proceed in open court.

Employment disputes are one dimension of the Firm's broader Hospitality Litigation practice.