Gunster is pleased to announce that shareholders Roger Feicht, Holly Goodman, Brian McPherson and Joseph Santoro are four of only 50 attorneys recognized by Florida Trend as 2024 Legal Elite Notable Labor & Employment Lawyers. As industry leaders, these Labor & Employment attorneys demonstrate exceptional skill, leadership, and dedication to the firm, clients and surrounding community.
Florida Trend invited peer nominations from across the state to recommend Labor & Employment attorneys who met specific methodology and criteria parameters. Nominations were vetted by Florida Trend and the selection process was rigorous, ensuring that only the most accomplished professionals were honored.
As Florida Trend notes, those recognized, “are indispensable allies for navigating the complexities of labor and employment laws and regulations in Florida.”
To view the entire Legal Elite Notable Labor & Employment Lawyers roster, click here.
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Roger Feicht is a board-certified litigator who counsels clients in diverse industries regarding employment law issues and pending or potential litigation. He regularly represents employers and employees in matters relating to allegations of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, and disputes over non-competition or non-solicitation agreements. In addition to employment litigation, Roger helps clients facing threatened or pending litigation in a variety of complex commercial cases, including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of trade secrets, and shareholder disputes.
As a board certified labor and employment attorney, Holly Griffin Goodman focuses her practice on counseling clients, from small businesses to large institutions, in everyday employment matters. Starting with the hiring process through discipline and termination, Holly’s goal is to help businesses manage their employees, and balance the interests of the business with obligations under federal, state, and local employment laws. Her clients range from industries across the spectrum including insurance, telecommunications, sports and entertainment, healthcare and hospitality.
Brian M. McPherson is a shareholder who leads Gunster’s Labor & Employment practice. An experienced business and employment law litigator and counselor, Brian has handled complex employment and commercial lawsuits and arbitrations all across Florida. Brian has represented a multitude of businesses and executives in a vast array of actions involving most of the Federal and Florida employment laws. He draws upon his litigation experience to counsel and assist clients with achieving their operational goals throughout Florida.
Joseph Santoro serves on the firm’s board of directors. He is one of the founding members and, for more than a decade, served as the chair of Gunster’s Labor & Employment practice. Joe is an experienced trial lawyer who represents clients in courts throughout the country in a variety of high-profile litigation matters including complex partnership disputes, fiduciary litigation, contract litigation, corporate theft and employee embezzlement, misappropriation of corporate opportunity claims, and numerous other significant business related litigation matters where he has obtained multimillion dollar jury verdicts and arbitration awards in favor of clients.
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Gunster, Florida’s law firm for business, provides full-service legal counsel to leading organizations and individuals from its 12 offices statewide. Established in 1925, the firm has expanded, diversified and evolved, but always with a singular focus: Florida and its clients’ stake in it. A magnet for business-savvy attorneys who embrace collaboration for the greatest advantage of clients, Gunster’s growth has not been at the expense of personalized service but because of it. The firm serves clients from its offices in Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Naples, Orlando, Palm Beach, Stuart, Tallahassee, Tampa, Vero Beach, and its headquarters in West Palm Beach. With more than 290 attorneys and consultants, and over 290 committed professional staff, Gunster is ranked among the National Law Journal’s list of the 500 largest law firms and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Diverse Law Firms by Law360. More information about its practice areas, offices and insider’s view newsletters is available at www.gunster.com.
