Labor and Employment


Your business depends on attracting and retaining the best talent available. From offering competitive employee benefits and negotiating with unions to resolving immigration and litigation issues, you need legal counsel who understands what the right outcome can mean for your business. With experience across a host of employment issues, Dykema helps our clients navigate the law and ensure that their greatest strength—talent—is secure.

Nationally ranked for labor and employment law

We are a leading labor and employment firm with "a very solid and capable team comprised of many subject matter experts." Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business


Building an efficient and effective business requires the development of your workforce through employment policies, job descriptions, employee training, employee evaluation systems, disciplinary and termination procedures, and compensation systems, among others.

We offer innovative tools such as diversity and inclusion training, workforce restructuring advisement, and compliance counseling, designed to guide organizations through complex day to day issues.

Our services, within the context of attorney-client privilege, are designed to give employers cost efficiency and budgetary certainty to manage ever-changing legal and regulatory requirements.

Latest News and Insights

Webinars9.30.25

Char's Corner: Wage and Hour Class Action Updates

California’s wage and hour rules create real risks for employers, especially under the state’s…

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Press Mentions9.18.25

32 Dykema Attorneys Named to Texas Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists for 2025

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that 15 of its Texas-based attorneys—from…

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Press Releases9.10.25

Abad Lopez Earns 2025 Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois (HLAI) Latino Lawyer of the Year Award

Dykema is proud to announce that Abad Lopez was selected by the Hispanic Lawyers Association of…

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