Business and Corporate Law

• Antitrust
  For nearly four decades, the firm has specialized in the representation of labor organizations and employee benefit funds, as well as in individual and complex litigation, throughout the United States. Founded in 1985, the firm provides a full range of legal services to individuals, pension funds, institutions and its labor organization clients. The firm has an extensive federal trial and appellate litigation practice and provides counsel to clients in areas of fiduciary responsibility and compliance with federal labor laws. The firm also serves as counsel to pension funds. Members of the firm have had a broad range of experience in arbitration, advocacy before various federal agencies, collective bargaining and the representation of clients before Congressional Committees. The firm has also developed an expertise in complex class-action antitrust litigation against some of the world’s largest corporations. The firm has earned the highest rating, AV, from Martindale-Hubbell.

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
• Employment Litigation
• Sexual Harassment
  Beth Roma has advocated on behalf of workers since 2000. Ms. Roma went to law school to pursue a career in the labor movement and graduated from the Washington College of Law at American University in 2004 (J.D., cum laude). Shortly after graduating from law school, Ms. Roma started as an associate with the firm, and became a principal in 2011. Her practice focuses on a wide-variety of labor and employment law issues, including matters arising under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, the Railway Labor Act, Employment Retirement Income Security Act, the federal duty of fair representation, as well as various civil rights laws and other employment statutes. Ms. Roma’s litigation experience includes representing clients at the trial and appellate levels of both state and federal courts. She also represents clients in arbitration proceedings and before government agencies, including the Department of Labor, the National Mediation Board, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She also often conducts compliance training, including sexual harassment training for employers.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  The firm has represented labor organizations in all phases of the bankruptcy process, gaining extensive experience in the intersection between labor law and bankruptcy law. The numerous bankruptcy proceedings in which we have been involved on behalf of employee groups include American Airlines, United Airlines, US Airways, Northwest Airlines, Aloha, Mesaba, TWA, Eastern Airlines and the historic Greenbrier Resort.