• Implementing compliance strategies and addressing specific statutory compliance issues in all areas of labor & employment law, including EEO, ADA, FMLA, FLSA, WARN, OWBPA and OSHA.
  
• Advising human resource professionals and all levels of management on myriad workplace decisions and practices, including individual and company-wide issues concerning employee selection, retention, performance, discipline and discharge, leaves of absence, workplace accommodations, reductions in force, mergers and acquisitions, management and employee training, grievance adjustment, and employee handbook and policy development.
  
• Advising employers on employment-related immigration issues, including employment authorization, visas, permanent resident petitions, I-9, E-Verify, and various federal and state contractor requirements.
  
• Conducting workplace investigations into issues including suspected employee misconduct, sexual and other harassment, and other discrimination claims.
  
• Developing, implementing and enforcing agreements protecting intellectual property and preventing unfair competition.
  
• Presenting training sessions for management, human resource professionals and employees on topics covering all areas of labor and employment law.

Mr. Immel regularly appears in federal and state courts, before administrative agencies and in arbitrations, on behalf of employers in a wide variety of industries. His litigation experience includes:

• Obtaining summary judgment and successfully arguing on appeal the first disability discrimination case in the 11th Circuit involving an HIV-positive healthcare worker; establishing a pro-employer test for future cases. The plaintiff was backed by a well-funded special interest group that fought the case aggressively from the administrative agency to the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
• Obtaining an emergency injunction restricting a former sales manager of a major international consumer products company from using or disclosing confidential information and trade secrets, and compelling production of all computer and electronic storage equipment, including that issued by new employer. Following employee’s resignation to join competitor, forensic examination of company-issued laptop revealed that hours before, employee had copied thousands of files to an external hard drive. When confronted, employee turned over hard drive and gave assurance that no further copies had been made. Forensic examination revealed additional downloading. Sought and obtained emergency injunction and recovered all intellectual property.
  
• Compelling arbitration and obtaining the summary dismissal, later upheld on appeal, of wrongful discharge claims by a former manager at a national insurance company terminated after what he contended was a shoddy investigation into workplace harassment allegations by a subordinate, with whom he had an extramarital affair, and her friends.
  
• Preventing imposition of injunctive relief in a case brought by two terminated engineers who claimed that their former employer, an experimental biotechnology company, had falsified data and submissions to regulatory authorities in connection with their principal medical device, an ultrasonic heart catheter. The plaintiffs sought a restraining order four days before the commencement human trials, the conduct of which were tied to important funding milestones. The case was briefed and successfully argued without delaying the clinical trials.
  
• Obtaining dismissal of wrongful discharge claims brought against a national nursing home operator by a nurse who claimed that she was terminated after threatening to inform authorities of what she believed to have been the physical abuse of a resident.