Go To Lawyers: Justin F. Keith

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As a prominent leader in Greenberg Traurig’s labor and employment practice, Boston attorney Justin F. Keith helps unionized businesses maintain successful labor relations while helping non-union companies maintain direct relationships with their employees through education, training, and proactive union awareness.

Keith’s practice encompasses all aspects of labor relations, including unfair labor practices, representation proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board and courts of appeal, contract negotiations, strikes and lockouts, grievances and arbitrations. Additionally, Keith represents employers in all aspects of employment law, including reductions in force, discrimination, harassment, whistleblower and retaliation litigation and numerous other personnel and workplace issues before state and federal agencies and in courts throughout the country.

Keith also has substantial experience litigating wage-and-hour class actions brought under the Massachusetts Wage Act and nationwide collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, representing employers in numerous industries, including retail, transportation, delivery services, and telecom services. He also counsels senior management and HR personnel on compliance with employment laws.

He served as co-counsel to New Process Steel in a landmark 2010 case, New Process Steel v. NLRB, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the NLRB couldn’t issue decisions with only two members. The case has been cited more than 500 times by the NLRB and the federal courts and it continues to reverberate throughout labor law today.

He also represented the employer in Thomas v. Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc., a 2020 case in which he convinced the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to adopt his client’s interpretation of the FLSA’s fluctuating workweek pay methodology.

Achievements and Professional Activities

Co-chair, Labor & Employment Practice Group, Greenberg Traurig; contributing editor, The Developing Labor Law; member, Labor and Employment Law Section and Committee on the Development of the Law Under the National Labor Relations Act, American Bar Association; former co-chair, Labor Subcommittee, Boston Bar Association