Morgan Lewis
We represent employers with operations in Puerto Rico in all facets of labor and employment law, including providing counseling and handling litigation in federal and state courts on the island.

We have a significant number of attorneys in the Miami office who are fluent in Spanish and actively practice in Puerto Rico.

We represented a major U.S. financial institution in connection with the closing of retail operations in Puerto Rico.

We advised a U.S. pharmaceutical company in connection with a preexisting covenant not to compete of a key executive in Puerto Rico.

We counsel companies doing business in Puerto Rico regarding local requirements for employee terminations and severance obligations.

We facilitated the successful restructuring and downsizing of a Puerto Rican telecommunications company.

We defeated a union’s efforts to organize a U.S. employer with operations in Puerto Rico.

We regularly represent companies before the Puerto Rico Department of Labor’s Antidiscrimination Unit and the San Juan office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.