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Randall D. Avram

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Randy Avram is Team Leader of the firm's Labor & Employment practice. Mr. Avram acts as national and regional employment litigation and labor counsel for several Fortune 100 companies. He has successfully defended numerous high profile class actions. Mr. Avram has also acted as first chair in more than 300 state and federal employment litigation cases. Mr. Avram has represented companies of all sizes in more than 50 union avoidance campaigns with a greater than 95 percent win rate. He has also acted as first chair in more than 100 NLRB cases and labor arbitrations. He represents management in all aspects of labor and employment and traditional labor law.

In addition, Mr. Avram often handles high profile workplace violence/workplace catastrophe cases including those involving fatalities and OSHA investigations. Mr. Avram regularly negotiates labor contracts for a variety of companies – large and small. He routinely works with companies to establish litigation avoidance programs, having trained more than 5,000 supervisors and managers.

Mr. Avram is listed in the 2014 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for Labor & Employment Law and each previous edition since 2006. He was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Labor and Employment Law in 2014 and the seven years immediately preceding. Mr. Avram has been recognized as a North Carolina “Super Lawyer” for Employment & Labor and Employment Litigation: Defense by SuperLawyers magazine every year since 2006 and in 2012 and 2013, he was named a North Carolina "Top 100 Super Lawyer" by SuperLawyers magazine. In addition, he was honored as a "Legal Elite" by Business North Carolina magazine in 2005, 2013 and 2014 as one of North Carolina’s top employment attorneys and as a Triangle area "Mover & Shaker" by Business Leader Magazine. He is a recipient of the 2014 Client Choice Award USA & Canada in the Employment & Labor category for North Carolina from Lexology and the International Law Office (ILO). Mr. Avram is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

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Areas of Practice 1) Employment Litigation & Class Actions, 2) Litigation, 3) Labor Relations, 4) Trade Secret, 5) OSHA Litigation, 6) Labor & Employment, 7) Employment Litigation, 8) Employment Counseling, 9) ERISA Litigation, 10) Executive Compensation, 11) Wage & Hour Issues and 12) RIFS & Severance Plans
Law School Wake Forest University School of Law ( J.D., 1985)
Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A., 1981)
Bar Member / Association North Carolina State Bar Association
Most recent firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
 

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