Florida Labor Lawyers

Labor Law

205 S. Hoover Blvd. Ste. 407, Tampa, 33609, United States

Alfred Myles Roush is a Tampa attorney who provides outside general counsel services and advice on privacy and security compliance. Florida Bar records identify his firm as Alfred M. Roush PA and his position as partner/shareholder. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in October 2009 and is listed as eligible to practice, with membership in good standing. Contracts occupy several parts of the practice Roush describes in his professional profile. He advises on business agreements and vendor terms, alongside tax strategy and employment questions. For professionals seeking contract advice, his work includes negotiating and reviewing documents before signing, as well as examining options under agreements already signed. He also identifies transaction structure, due diligence and potential liabilities as subjects of his mergers-and-acquisitions advice. A separate part of his work concerns artificial intelligence compliance and privacy. Roush describes advising owners, investors, partners and general counsel on vendor terms, the handling of data and disclosure. His LinkedIn profile lists him as Roush Law Group’s data privacy officer, with that appointment beginning in November 2019; it also lists an attorney role at the firm beginning in 2011. His professional affiliations include the Florida Bar’s Business Law Section and Cybersecurity and Privacy Law Committee, both recorded in his bar profile.

Labor Law

8751 W. Broward Blvd., Suite 105, Plantation, FL 33324

Area of Practice: Labor and Employment Law

Labor Law

655 West Morse Blvd., Suite 212, Winter Park, FL 32789

Employment Law Mr. Spalter graduated cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law in 1992, and received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University in 1989. Since graduating from law school, Mr. Spalter has concentrated his practice in the field of labor and employment law. Over the years, Mr. Spalter has represented a wide variety of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to individuals employed in numerous industries and professions within the private and public sectors. Mr. Spalter has litigated throughout the State of Florida, and is a member of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Spalter has been Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law since 2002, and was inducted into the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in 2013.

Labor Law

4890 W Kennedy Blvd, Ste 950, Tampa, FL 33609

Education-Rollins College, B.A. Saint Leo University, M.B.A. Florida State University College of Law, J.D. State Licenses- Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts Courts U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois

Labor Law

300 S Pine Island Rd, Plantation, FL 33324, USA

Gina practices labor employment law counseling and litigation. Prior to owning her law firm, Ms. Cadogan primarily represented Fortune 500 Companies, municipalities, non-profits and hospital systems in employment and commercial litigation at large National and International firms. Presently, she represents individual employees and companies in all aspects of employment and labor claims, including but not limited to discrimination, harassment and retaliation, non-compete agreements, wrongful discharge, workers’ compensation retaliation, unpaid wage claims, overtime claims, negligent hiring/retention, and medical leave violations. Gina also provides advice about a full range of employment matters, including personnel practices and policies, investigation of discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims, medical leave issues, as well as hiring and termination decisions. Gina frequently speaks on these topics both locally and nationally at legal conferences and to her corporate clients. Gina received her law degree from Emory University School of Law in 1999 and served on the Moot Court Board and was a recipient of the Order of the Advocates. She graduated from the University of Florida in 1996, with dual degrees and high honors (magna cum laude) and was inducted as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key Honor Societies. She is admitted to the Florida Bar, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida. Gina is active in the Federal Bar Association, Caribbean Bar Association and Broward County Bar Association.

Labor Law

1825 Ponce de Leon #302, Coral Gables, FL 33134, USA

Area of Practice: Labor and Employment Law Giselle is the founding partner of Exhibit G Law Firm, where she provides strategic counsel on labor and employment matters. She represents clients throughout Florida in discrimination, retaliation, unpaid wages, whistleblower lawsuits, non-compete disputes, and more, advocating before the EEOC, NLRB, and in state and federal courts. A former federal judicial clerk for Judge Paul C. Huck, she offers deep litigation insight. She also advises employers and employees on compliance, workplace policies, and risk mitigation strategies to help prevent disputes before they arise.

Labor Law

202 S Hoover Blvd, Tampa, FL 33609, USA

Jason Allan Watson is a Florida attorney whose Florida Bar profile lists a Tampa mailing address with Christopher Ligori and Associates. He was admitted to The Florida Bar on April 14, 2011, and holds bar number 88881. The profile identifies him as a member in good standing who is eligible to practice law in Florida. Watson’s documented professional history includes representation of charging parties in proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board. In Premier Orthopedic of Orlando, a case filed on December 5, 2016, the agency lists him as the charging party’s legal representative with Spielberger Law Group at its South Hoover Boulevard address in Tampa. The docket records a dismissal letter dated February 1, 2017, and identifies the case as closed. A separate NLRB proceeding involving The Vitamin Shoppe, filed on March 12, 2020, names Jason Allan Watson as the charging party’s legal representative and associates him with Kemp, Ruge of Green Law Group in Trinity. That case is also closed; its docket records a letter approving a withdrawal request on May 27, 2020. Both proceedings list allegations concerning concerted activities, including retaliation, discharge or discipline. His Florida Bar listing places his professional contact address with a different firm from those historical case records. Christopher Ligori and Associates describes its work as representing accident victims in personal injury matters, including car crashes and wrongful death cases.

Labor Law

655 W Morse Blvd, Winter Park, FL 32789, USA

Labor and Employment Law

Labor Law

4890 W. Kennedy Blvd., Ste. 950, Tampa, FL 33609

Employment Law

Labor Law

9360 Sunset Drive, 283, Miami, FL 33173

Mark Richard is a founding partner of the firm. For more than 30 years, he has dedicated his career to union workers, handling strategic and corporate campaigns as well as NLRB, PERC and arbitration proceedings. He became involved with the labor movement in 1975, when he took his first labor union position as the South Florida Boycott Organizing Director for Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers of America (“UFW”). In that capacity, coordinated the grape and lettuce boycott in South Florida. Mark Richard’s legal career is dedicated to representing solely labor unions. He has been involved in public and private sector organizing, bargaining, and coalition building for over three decades. He has been involved in negotiating over more than 250 collective bargaining agreements in both the public and private sector. These include contracts for state and local government employees, teachers and paraprofessionals, college professors, attending and resident physicians, nurses, social workers, fire and public safety professionals, aviation employees, and multiple other AFT units. Additionally, he was involved in bargaining over the contract for the first unionized charter school in Florida. Mr. Richard has also conducted strategic contract campaigns for many unions including TWU Local 556 (Southwest Airlines flight attendants), APFA (American Airlines flight attendants), IFPTE (United Airlines engineers), PFAA (Northwest flight attendants) and TWU Local 553 (Eastern Airlines flight attendants). From 2003 to 2005 Mr. Richard was appointed by the American Federation of Teachers as administrator to coordinate the strategic recovery and restructure of the United Teachers of Dade (“UTD”). UTD represents over 30,000 educators serving Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the 4th largest school system in America. Mr. Richard was the chief negotiator for three rounds of bargaining with the school system and the lead strategist for the union’s contract campaign. In 2009, he was appointed as an administrator for AFT healthcare local in Portland, Oregon which represents 3000 medical professionals employed at Kaiser Permanente. Mr. Richard’s dedication to the law does not end at the courthouse steps. At Miami-Dade Community College, he progressed through the faculty ranks, obtaining a position as a full professor in the Legal Assistant Department. Mark retained his role in that capacity until last year. While on the faculty, he successfully organized an AFT professors’ local union in 1998 and served as its founding Local President for 18 years.

Labor Law

1330 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32303-5608

Tom Thompson grew up in Tampa.??After graduating with honors with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Florida, Tom was hired as a legal assistant with the Tampa law firm of Haas, Boehm, Brown, Rigdon, Seacrest, and Fisher. While employed by the firm, Mr. Thompson worked in the field of insurance defense with an emphasis on property and commercial liability claims. Mr. Thompson later joined the construction litigation department of Johnson, Blakley, and Pope in Clearwater before he entered law school.???Mr. Thompson attended the Florida State University College of Law, where he was an active member of the Law Review, a published author, and a member of the Law Review’s editorial board. In his third year, Tom was elected Executive Editor and directed a special volume devoted to issues then pending before the Florida Legislature. Upon graduating with honors, Mr. Thompson accepted an attorney associate position with the Tallahassee firm of Callahan and Dobbins. While there, his practice consisted primarily of insurance defense. Since the establishment of Thompson, Crawford, Brown, and Smiley, Mr. Thompson’s primary practice had remained in the litigation field, both as plaintiff and defense counsel. In addition to serving many local clients, he has served as counsel for various agencies in the state of Florida, Superior Insurance Company, Philadelphia Insurance Company, 21st Century Insurance and Nova Casualty and self-insured companies including Budget Rent-A-Car Systems, Inc., Prestige Home Centers, Inc., and Westinghouse Electric Company. In addition to defending tort, contract, and insurance coverage claims, Tom has extensive experience litigating employment discrimination, whistleblower, and retaliation actions on behalf of the employer. Mr. Thompson is Board Certified in Civil Trial and is a member of both the Florida and Georgia Bars and is admitted to the Federal Bars for the Northern and Middle Districts of Florida, the Middle District of Georgia, and the Eleventh Circuit. He is a member of the Tallahassee Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute, the Florida Defense Lawyers Association, and was a Chair for the Florida New Motor Vehicle Arbitration Board, commonly known as the “lemon law board.” Tom has received recognition from the Florida Bar for his expertise in civil trial law and has been “Board Certified” in that field for 15 years as a result of his decades of trial experience combined with dozens of trials and superior ethical reputation throughout the legal community.

Labor Law

1303 Ferdinand Street, Coral Gables, FL 33134

Zascha Blanco Abbott represents employers in labor and employment matters as a partner at Kaufman Dolowich in Fort Lauderdale. Her work includes both litigation and advice on workplace policies and practices. An employment dispute may take her before an administrative agency as well as into court: she represents employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Florida Commission on Human Relations. In litigation, her management-side work includes class actions, wage and hour disputes, and claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Contract disputes and non-compete agreements are also part of her practice. She defends claims brought under Title VII, the Florida Civil Rights Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Other matters in her background concern access to websites and physical premises, whistleblower claims, and retaliation involving workers’ compensation. She has also handled constitutional claims concerning the First Amendment and Equal Protection Clause. Outside litigation, employers turn to her for workplace audits, training and the development of employment policies. Abbott previously worked in municipal government as an Assistant City Attorney for Miami, representing city departments in labor and employment matters. She earned her law degree at Nova Southeastern University and holds a B.B.A. from Florida International University. Her firm lists Spanish proficiency. The Florida Bar records her as a member in good standing and eligible to practice law in the state.