Livingston, Adler, Pulda Meiklejohn & Kelly was formed in 1981 with the merger of two smaller union-side firms. With eight attorneys, LAPM&K is Connecticut's largest plaintiff-side labor and employment law firm. For over a quarter century, our practice has been limited to representing individual employees and labor unions in all aspects of labor and employment law. Because we do not represent corporations or employers in employment-related disputes, we are able to consistently focus our legal work on furthering employee rights and workplace justice.

The attorneys of LAPM&K regularly represent employees with respect to claims of employment discrimination or retaliation on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, national origin, pregnancy, sexual harassment, racial harassment, and hostile work environment, and the exercise of rights protected by the family and medical leave acts (FMLA). We also represent employees with respect to first amendment activity, whistleblowing claims, public policy discharge claims, workers compensation retaliation, employer violations of wage and hour laws, breach of contract claims, libel and defamation actions, claims for invasion of privacy and other tort claims and claims involving non-competition agreements.

We provide employees with advice and counsel with respect to employment related disputes, accommodation requests, severance agreements, and contract negotiations. We represent individual employees in both the State and Federal Courts, before the the Department of Labor, at the Connecticut Commission of Human Rights & Opportunities and the federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, and in private mediation and arbitrations.

The attorneys of LAPM&K regularly represent labor unions in contract negotiations and grievance arbitrations. We also help unions protect employee rights before the National Labor Relations Board, the State Labor Relations Board, and in State and Federal Court.

The attorneys of LAPM&K work with other progressive groups such as the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund, the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, the National Lawyers Guild, and the Connecticut Citizen's Action Group, on issues related to employment, women's rights, rights of immigrant workers, access to health care, and protection of constitutional rights.

In 2011, the four named partners in LAPM&K were named by SuperLawyers as Top Attorneys in New England and Nicole Rothgeb was named as one of New England's Rising Stars, in the Employment & Labor category.

OUR MISSION
Our Mission at LAPM&K is to promote employee rights, civil rights and workplace fairness, and to support the labor movement as it works to increase job security, and improve salaries, benefits and working conditions for working people in Connecticut and beyond. Corporations generally have far greater resources than the employees who face them across the courtroom or negotiating table. Our goal is to use our skills and experience to help level this playing field. Using the highest standards of professionalism and integrity, we seek to help employees and labor unions create a more just workplace - one case at a time.

The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them common tools for common goals. Their goals are goals for all America – and their enemies are the enemies for progress. The two cannot be separated.  - John F. Kennedy