Practice Areas

Labor Law

Vin advises and represents numerous public and private sector employers in traditional labor law, including collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, interest arbitration, impasse mediation, pension matters, unfair labor practice charges, union avoidance, and a host of other labor relations challenges. He navigates clients through the panoply of complex labor laws, offering strategic direction to minimize or quell divisive labor unrest.

Employment Law

Vin counsels public and private sector employers in many facets of the vast web of ever-evolving employment law. He zealously represents and defends employers in administrative agency investigations and charges, as well as employment litigation in Rhode Island state and federal courts. His focus is to proactively craft solutions and strategies for employers to sidestep costly and disruptive employment claims, often by his day-to-day counseling. The adage, “An ounce of prevention is a worth a pound of cure” aptly describes Vin’s methodical approach to advising employers.

Most often his services include:

• • Defense of discrimination claims
  • Defense of wrongful termination claims
  • Drafting and review of employment contracts
  • Development of human resources policies and procedures
  • Defense of all forms of workplace harassment claims, such as bullying, hostile environment sexual harassment, quid pro quo sexual harassment, racial harassment, and other claims of mistreatment based on protected class status