Hahalis & Kounoupis PC

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Employment Law.

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60 + Years Combined Experience in Employment Law.
Hundreds of referring attorney and law firms recognize us as the premier workers' rights law firm in the Lehigh Valley.
Thousands of employment law cases handled and a record of success in litigating employment law cases.
We are Trial lawyers who have taken on over 300 Fortune 500 companies in employment law cases.
Published settlements, cases and awards, and publications which establish attorneys at the top in the employment law field.
At the forefront of educating and teaching about employment law.
Dedicated to fairness in the workplace.

These are the areas we aggressively work in and litigate to protect employee rights.

Municipal & Public Employee Matters
Fraternal Order of Police - police officers and law enforcement officers workplace rights
Shareholder & Partnership Disputes - including minority shareholder rights

New Pennsylvania law was made in the firm's victory before the Pennsylvania Superior Court, in the case of Henriques v. Pacesetter (Pennsylvania Superior Court, 2007). For the first time under Pennsylvania law a Pennsylvania appellate court applied a new causation standard to PHRA retaliation law.
The firm recently successfully concluded contract negotiations on behalf of Bethlehem Police FOP Lodge- resulting in the highest raises ever for the 250 plus members of that police department.
Firm obtained a $145,000 verdict in an age discrimination case.
David L. Deratzian of the firm was named a "Pennsylvania Super Lawyer" in employment law. He joins George S. Kounoupis, who was named a "Pennsylvania Super Lawyer" in 2006.
Mr. Kounoupis was admitted to the Million Dollar Advocates Forum- representing the top trial lawyers in the United States.
Mr. Kounoupis will be featured in the COMCAST, nationally syndicated National Law Journal television show- as one of the pre-eminent Plaintiff employment attorneys in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Kounoupis has been quoted by General Counsel Magazine and Pennsylvania Law Weekly on current employment law issues.
Mr. Kounoupis and Mr. Deratzian were both admitted to the United States Supreme Court for a pending Writ of Certiorari in an employment matter.
The firm represented Netcracker, a major multinational corporate company, in complex international employment and consulting agreements.
Mr. Kounoupis was renewed as co-chairman of the Northampton county Bar Association Employment law committee.
Mr. Kounoupis and the firm are on the EEOC's Attorney Referral List comprised of employment attorney's to whom the EEOC regularly refers cases.
Mr. Kounoupis and Mr. Deratzian were recently named fellows of the Litigation Counsel of America, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society. Mr. Kounoupis also serves as an honorary member of the Litigation Counsel of America's International Law Committee.
Mr. Kounoupis recently appeared in a round-table discussion on employment law published in General Counsel Magazine, as the sole Plaintiff's lawyer in a distinguished panel of pre-eminent defense counsel.
SuperLawyers Magazine, in their nationally published General Counsel edition, recently listed Hahalis & Kounoupis as one of the top employment law firms in the nation.

According to FINDLAW'S THOMPSONS Legal Search, our firm is the most experienced employee rights law firm (in terms of record filed employment cases) in the local Federal Court of the Eastern District and before the local Federal Judges.