Experienced Labor & Employment Lawyer Joshua F. Alloy Joins Arnold & Porter

WASHINGTON, DC, February 24, 2015 -- Arnold & Porter LLP announced today that Joshua F. Alloy has joined the firm as counsel in the Labor and Employment group, resident in the firm's Washington, DC office.

In his practice, Mr. Alloy handles a broad range of labor and employment matters involving counseling, transactions, and litigation. His work focuses on such key federal statutes as Title VII, ADEA, ADA, FMLA, FLSA, NLRA, WARN, and state and local labor and employment laws. He has experience conducting internal investigations and audits and advising clients in connection with internal complaints and administrative proceedings before federal and state agencies. He also drafts and negotiates employment and consulting contracts, commission and compensation plans, and counsels clients on terminations, reductions-in-force, and alternatives to layoffs. In addition to his counseling and transactional work, Mr. Alloy defends clients against individual and class claims of employment discrimination and harassment, wage-hour violations, constitutional violations, and breach of contract in federal and state courts, arbitrations, and administrative proceedings.

David Reis, head of Arnold & Porter's Labor and Employment practice, said: "Josh is a well-rounded lawyer who has spent more than a decade guiding clients through the full range of employment-related matters. His background and versatility is a great fit with our national practice, and will serve to further strengthen our offerings to clients."

In joining Arnold & Porter, Mr. Alloy said: "I am very pleased to be a part of Arnold & Porter's Labor & Employment team in the Washington, DC office. I look forward to collaborating with my new colleagues across both offices and practices, providing firm clients with critical support on their employment matters, and expanding my practice."

Mr. Alloy earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, cum laude, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, received the M.H. Goldstein Memorial Prize for Labor Law, and served as Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He received his B.A., with honors, from Swarthmore College. Mr. Alloy has also been named a Super Lawyers "Rising Star" in Washington, DC and previously in New York in each year since 2011.

Arnold & Porter LLP is an international law firm of nearly 800 lawyers with offices in Brussels, Denver, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, DC. The firm, founded in 1946, maintains more than 25 practice areas spanning a broad spectrum of the law, with a primary focus on litigation, transactional matters, and regulatory issues.