Scalambrino & Arnoff, LLC offers its clients a full range of services in the areas of labor and employment law, ranging from counsel on daily operations to litigation, from unemployment insurance issues to appellate practice, from sexual harassment to wrongful termination claims. We pride ourselves on putting out the personnel fire before it starts.
Various businesses nationwide retain Scalambrino & Arnoff, LLC on an ongoing basis for preventative counseling in avoiding or handling employee disputes. We advise clients on measures concerning exposure to discrimination, wrongful discharge, and other claims. Often, we consult with our clients concerning everyday workplace issues, such as recruitment and selection, employee morale, absenteeism, and productivity. We find especially crucial how dealing with the role technology, such as the Internet, email, and PDAs, plays in the workplace. We enhance our counseling role by offering clients comprehensive, on-site employment and labor audit of their policies and practices. We are also retained to investigate alleged workplace misconduct, such as harassment and discrimination, and report back to the Executive Suite on our findings and recommendations.
Our aggressive counseling and compliance approach helps reduce the likelihood that a client will be subject to a charge of employment discrimination, harassment, or retaliation. However, given the cost to a disgruntled employee or applicant for filing a charge (it is free), it does happen. Our attorneys practice routinely before various local and state human rights administrative agencies across the country, addressing such matters as race and sex discrimination, age and disability discrimination, and other claims of employment discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We also represent employers with respect to discrimination before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), state and local agencies, and before federal and state courts across the nation.
Scalambrino & Arnoff, LLC provides a wide array of services to financial institutions, business entities, and individuals in all aspects of federal bankruptcy and state insolvency law throughout the United States.
The firm represents lending institutions, debtors, landlords, tenants, purchasers, union health, welfare and pension funds, both secured and unsecured creditors, in all aspects of the workouts, all in and out of bankruptcy.
The firm’s also handles prosecution and defense of preference and transfer actions tax.
Scalambrino & Arnoff, LLC represents businesses and, in some instances, individuals in both out-of-court and in-court workouts of their financial affairs. This work includes the filing of Chapter 11 cases, obtaining financing and cash collateral orders, negotiating plans of reorganization, and, when necessary, litigating all issues attendant to the reorganization process, including the defense of involuntary bankruptcy proceedings. The firm’s experience in this area includes work in relocating businesses to Mexico to take advantage of that country’s Maquiladora program. In addition, often in smaller or medium-sized cases, the owners, officers, and/or directors may have guaranteed debt or personally incurred tax liability. In these instances, the firm works with these individuals to reduce their personal exposure and, if necessary, institute bankruptcy or out-of-court reorganization proceedings on their behalf.
Scalambrino & Arnoff, LLC has an active practice in protecting the interests of general unsecured creditors in insolvency proceedings by preparing proofs of claims, defending objections to these claims, and, if necessary, policing the case by objecting to lending arrangements or administrative claims which could reduce the dividend to unsecured creditors. Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not have our clients serve on a creditors’ committee. The firm represents these committees and has developed methods to be cost-effective in this representation.
One area in which Scalambrino & Arnoff, LLC has been very active is representing landlords in reorganization/liquidation proceedings. This representation includes protecting a landlord’s interest in the assumption, rejection, or assignment of its lease, compelling compliance with lease terms during “going out of business” sales, and filing rejection damage claims when leases are rejected.
Scalambrino & Arnoff, LLC has an active business and commercial litigation practice. The firm primarily represents businesses and, in some instances, individuals in civil proceedings before both the state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as before various administrative agencies.
Scalambrino & Arnoff, LLC is acutely aware that litigation can be time-consuming and expensive. For this reason, we take a preventative approach to keep our clients out of court. We make suggestions to our clients regarding preventative measures they can take to ensure, to the extent possible, that litigation is avoided. In this regard, if a problem arises, we attempt to become involved in matters when they are generally in the “letter writing” stage so that the client has some control over the facts and set the groundwork most beneficial to the client should litigation follow. We have found that if our clients institute these preventative measures, their litigation costs are substantially reduced. In addition to the obvious savings of attorneys’ fees and costs, little, if any, valuable work time and employee productivity are lost when there are no depositions to attend, court documents to review, or other litigation activity, which causes a loss of productivity, and, therefore, profit.
Our employment law practice on behalf of private schools was developed some years ago to encompass education-related claims by students. We address employee student academic and comportment issues with our client institutions (ranging from pre-school through graduate schools), both in-house and before such agencies as the United States Department of Education, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, as well as in the court system.
The information you obtain at this site is not, nor is it intended to be legal advice. You should consult an attorney for advice regarding your individual situation. We invite you to contact us and welcome your calls, letters, and electronic mail. Contacting us does not create an attorney-client relationship. Please do not send any confidential information to us until such time as an attorney-client relationship has been established.
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