<p>Rick Cohen brings extensive experience in every facet of employment law, with primary emphasis on employment discrimination at the administrative, trial and appellate levels.  He also has a substantial mediation and arbitration practice.  He advises both private and public employers on day-to-day legal issues affecting the workplace, including employee discipline and terminations, sexual harassment and other employee misconduct, workplace privacy, disability accommodations and other human resources issues.  Rick also has experience negotiating and preparing executive employment agreements and executive separate packages.
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Taking a proactive approach when advising clients, Rick emphasizes creative solutions to employee relations problems and routinely counsels management about ways to prevent costly and protracted litigation.  He teaches client's executives, managers and supervisors how to make sounds human resource decisions, while at the same time minimizing wrongful termination, discrimination and sexual harassment claims.
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Rick frequently represents employers in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies and administrative law judges on a variety of litigation matters involving the employer-employee relationship and has successfully defended employers in several of the most significant class action lawsuits in the Southwest.