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Brandon serves as a strategic ally to clients in a range of labor and employment matters. He focuses on providing practical solutions and business-minded counsel to national and regional employers on labor relations issues, including union organizing elections and decertification elections and negotiating initial and successor union collective bargaining agreements. Brandon has also successfully managed numerous threatened and actual labor disruptions including picketing, lockouts, and strikes. Brandon routinely defends employers in discrimination matters and claims brought pursuant to Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination in state and federal court. In addition, he represents employers in unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board.As an experienced dispute and trial strategist, Brandon has served as lead counsel in obtaining various favorable arbitration settlements and verdicts on behalf of clients. His solutions emphasize resuming business productivity while mitigating negative press, company policy overhauls, and potential damages.Brandon also advises employers on potential pension fund withdrawal liability matters and has negotiated favorable settlements for his clients. He also is experienced in drafting and revising personnel policies and employee handbooks and has drafted employment contracts and separation agreements.While in law school, Brandon served as a judicial intern to the Hon. Susan Peikes Gantman, President Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

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<li>Successfully represented a large hospital network in a decertification of a 200+ employee Unit.</li>
<li>Defeated a Union’s corporate organizing campaign involving 10+ petitions over a three-year period for a publicly traded national diagnostics company.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Coordinated and successfully strategized to defeat numerous union organizing efforts for large hospital networks, hotel chains, casinos, transportation companies, cannabis employers, and construction companies. </li>
<li>Successfully navigated a three-week strike for a national transportation company.</li>
<li>Counseled a national entertainment company through a nine-month strike which ended in the Union disclaiming interest in the bargaining unit. </li>
<li>Obtained a precedential NLRB ruling restricting picketing activity in the construction industry.</li>
<li>Obtained a precedential NLRB ruling concerning Union bargaining obligations.</li>
<li>Negotiated multiple initial contracts for non-profit employers dealing with unionization.</li>
<li>Arbitrated 30+ cases regarding mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for a large pharmaceutical company.</li>
<li>Served as trial counsel and obtained a complete defense verdict for a large pharmaceutical company in an Age Discrimination case.</li>
<li>Served as trial counsel and obtained a jury verdict establishing a breach of contract against a departing employee for a national healthcare company.</li>
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