employment
Applying Sophisticated Strategy to Complex Workplace Disputes
Employment disputes demand insight into how jurors interpret workplace dynamics and perceive power imbalances and questions of organizational fairness. DRC helps trial teams navigate these complexities with research‑driven analysis of community attitudes and case themes, ensuring that issues such as discrimination, retaliation, and wage‑and‑hour claims are framed in ways that resonate with decision‑makers and withstand scrutiny.
Our multidisciplinary team of litigators, psychologists, data scientists, and information designers brings a rigorous, empathetic approach to these matters, combining behavioral research with clear visual storytelling and targeted witness preparation. We equip clients to present nuanced workplace narratives with clarity and credibility, ensuring that jurors and arbitrators understand not only what happened, but why it matters under the law.
why work with us?
Our Expertise in Employment litigation
Class & Collective Actions
We support counsel in large-scale employment class actions involving wage theft, misclassification, and systemic discrimination. Our research methods and jury profiling tools help identify themes that unify or divide juror perspectives across diverse plaintiff groups.
Wrongful Termination & Retaliation Cases
DRC helps trial teams frame complex employment terminations in a way that neutralizes bias and emphasizes fairness. We test competing narratives through focus groups and develop demonstratives that clarify timelines, decision-making processes, and policy adherence.
Compensation Disputes
In wage-and-hour litigation, the story lies in the numbers. We distill dense payroll data and employment records into visuals that jurors can understand and believe. Our team also prepares witnesses to explain technical compensation structures with confidence and credibility.
Harassment & Hostile Work Environment Claims
These emotionally charged cases require careful narrative framing. We help counsel present sensitive testimony with empathy and strategic control, ensuring that key witnesses are prepared to testify with clarity, composure, and authenticity.
Hiring, Promotion & Pay Equity Litigation
DRC supports litigation involving disparate impact and implicit bias. We work with experts to translate complex data into persuasive demonstratives and help trial teams anticipate juror reactions to fairness, merit, and corporate culture.
"DRC is simply the best. From jury selection to focus groups, they are an all-in-one firm that I would not consider going to trial without.”
Jerry Lefcourt, Gerald B. Lefcourt, P.C.
“Truly indispensable jury services. Don't go to trial without consulting them first.”
Michael L. Bloch, Partner, Bloch & White LLP
“DRC’s plus is that they do all of it, and they do it all extraordinarily well. They are out and away the best because they dig in, really understand the case and the law.”
In-house Counsel, DRC Client
“I’ll give DRC a 10, but I would give them an 11 if I could. I have found that the people they hire are great, think outside the box, and are consistently top-of-the-line.”
Business Owner, DRC Client
“Their jury consultants and graphics people are highly knowledgeable.”
In-house Counsel, DRC Client
Why DRC?
experience
Discover our employment litigation experience
Our portfolio features cases that define the cutting edge of litigation, handled in courts across the country, and involving the most pressing legal challenges of their time. See how DRC’s strategic insight has guided clients through matters of extraordinary complexity and significance.
services
Strategic Services for employment
- Community Attitudes Surveys
- Jury Focus Groups
- Judge/Arbitrator Focus Groups
- Demonstrative Aids
- Jury Selection
- Trial Strategy Consulting
- Witness Preparation
- Trial Technology
Community Attitudes Surveys
DRC’s online Community Attitudes Surveys provide a “barometer reading” of how hundreds of potential jurors view the parties, the issues, and the evidence. We use the survey results to create a profile of the best and worst jurors for your case.
Jury Focus Groups
Jury focus groups test case themes, evidence, and witnesses. Conducted within the jurisdiction, clients observe live deliberations and get both qualitative and quantitative feedback. This helps DRC shape trial strategy and is often an effective risk management tool to guide potential settlement.
Judge/Arbitrator Focus Groups
DRC partners with former judges and arbitrators from JAMS/AAA to hear cases and issue written opinions. Judge and arbitrator panelists provide strategic feedback about case strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes, they can provide insight into the judge or arbitrator assigned to the case.
Demonstrative Aids
DRC’s strategists and designers apply innovative design principles and leverage jury research to ensure that your trial graphics reinforce both oral and visual advocacy.
Jury Selection
DRC develops reliable jury profiles to identify negatively biased jurors for de-selection. DRC thoroughly researches and ranks each potential juror, regardless of the jury pool size. We draft voir dire questions, jury questionnaires, and pre-trial motions related to jury selection.
Trial Strategy Consulting
At DRC, we build our trial strategies around cohesive and compelling case narratives. By simplifying complex issues that appeal to both logic and emotion, we ensure that trial presentations resonate with decision-makers, guiding them toward the right outcome.
Witness Preparation
DRC prepares the most important and difficult witnesses to testify at depositions and trials. Our approach familiarizes witnesses with the rules for direct and cross-examination, providing guidance to ensure maximum clarity and credibility.
Trial Technology
DRC provides trial technicians (“hot seat” operators) to ensure that your trial presentation is smooth and seamless. Our consultants have each worked on hundreds of trials and are accustomed to the rigors of ultra-high-profile and high-stakes trials.
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