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Allison Kahn is board certified in labor and employment law by The Florida Bar, a distinction held by only about 200 lawyers in the state and one that reflects testing and peer evaluation in her practice area. As Chair of the West Palm Beach Labor & Employment Practice, she defends and counsels employers of all sizes in health care, hospitality, banking, telecommunications, and education, appearing in state and federal court, in arbitration, and before administrative agencies. Employers hire her to try discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour cases, and with the goal of keeping workplace decisions from becoming litigation in the first place. She has taken employment cases through jury trial, arbitration, and appeal.
Much of Allison’s practice involves defending employee claims of discrimination, hostile work environment, and retaliation based on race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, and other protected characteristics under the Florida Civil Rights Act, Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. She regularly appears before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Florida Commission on Human Relations, and county fair employment practice agencies. Management clients also turn to her for advice and defense under the Whistleblower Protection Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act.
On the wage and hour side, Allison has completed more than 300 employee pay classification audits assessing exempt and nonexempt status under overtime laws. That work informs her defense of misclassification claims and collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act. She also litigates joint employment questions and disputes over employee versus independent contractor classification, and she structures internship programs to comply with wage and hour requirements.
Allison’s practice extends to prosecuting violations of noncompetition agreements, defending schools against sex-based discrimination in education claims under Title IX, and defending businesses and public accommodations against access discrimination claims, including website accessibility. She tries grievances under collective bargaining agreements in a range of arbitration forums.
Concentrations
- Deep knowledge of EEOC’s investigative priorities and practices
- Legal approaches for rehabilitating or firing poor performing employees
- Creative discovery ideas to build trial ready employment defenses
- Voracious reader of Title VII, FCRA, ADA, ADEA, FWA, FLSA, and FMLA decisions to address emerging employment issues
- Driven legal strategist for complex employment problems, including class and collective actions
取扱分野
実績紹介
- Represented a hospital at an arbitration hearing, and prevailed, in a union’s claim that the hospital’s termination of an employee for conflict of interest was not “just cause” under the collective bargaining agreement.°
- Represented medical providers in a Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wage and overtime collective action brought by student interns and prevailed on summary judgment.°
- Represented hospital and obtained summary judgment against student interns claiming they were employees under the FLSA.°
- Represented private hospital in claim alleging violation of Florida Whistleblower Act and obtained summary judgment and affirmance on appeal using unique National Labor Relations Act defense.°
- Represented a hospital in a Florida Private Sector Whistleblower Act case brought by an employee fired for violating an ethical code of conduct and obtained summary judgment and affirmance on appeal.°
- Represented a hospital and obtained a complete defense verdict at a six-day jury trial on an employee’s claims of Family & Medical Leave Act interference and retaliation, and disability discrimination and retaliation.°
- Represented an inmate pro bono through the Volunteer Lawyers Project for the Southern District of Florida at a two-day federal jury trial on the inmate’s claim of civil rights violations under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.°
- Testified as an expert on the Americans with Disabilities Act and Fair Housing Act regarding the number and nature of parking spaces required in a parking lot shared by a condominium and a place of public accommodation.°
- Represented a securities company at arbitration before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in an employee’s claims of race, national origin, and disability discrimination and obtained dismissal for employee misconduct, along with subsequent order of dismissal from a federal district court finding the employee’s misconduct made the agreed-upon arbitration tribunal unavailable and foreclosed employee’s claims in court.°
- Represented a college accused of wage discrimination based on an employee’s race and color and obtained dismissal of Title VII claims for the employee’s discovery misconduct and summary judgment on Florida Civil Rights Act counts and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 claim.°
- Obtained preliminary injunction in favor of a hospital and against a physician in violation of noncompetition agreement.°
- Defeated class certification in an ERISA claim.°
- Represented a hospital in a four-day jury trial, and obtained complete defense verdict, in a case where an employee sought $2 million for alleged whistleblower retaliation and disability discrimination.°
- Represented a medical center, and prevailed, at a two-day evidentiary hearing before Florida’s Division of Administrative Hearings after an employee appealed a Florida Commission on Human Relations’ decision finding “no cause” to believe sex, age, race, or national origin discrimination occurred.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Kahn prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
- Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by The Florida Bar
- Intern, U.S. Department of Justice, 1999
受賞歴・所属団体
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Labor and Employment Litigation, 2025-2027
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Florida Super Lawyers, 2025
- Listed, Florida Trend Magazine, Florida Legal Elite, 2020-2022
- Listed, Palm Beach Illustrated, Top Lawyers, 2021-2022, 2025-2026
- Recipient, The Florida Bar, “Meritorious Public Service Certificate for Service on The Florida Bar Grievance Committee, 15A,” 2018
- Member, Academy of Florida Management Attorneys, (membership by invitation only for preeminent management practitioners of labor and employment law), 2017-Present
- President, 2026-2027
- Vice President, 2025-2026
- Secretary & Treasurer, 2024-2025
- Sergeant at Arms and Membership Chair, 2023-2024
- U.S. Equal Opportunity Liaison Committee, 2017-2023
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
- Committee Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Attorney Admissions, Peer Review, and Attorney Grievance under Local Rule 6, Appointed and Reappointed by Chief Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga, 2023-Present
- Member, The Florida Bar, 2001-Present
- Chair, Fifteenth Circuit Grievance Committee “A”, 2018
- Member, Fifteenth Circuit Grievance Committee “A”. 2016-2017
- Member, Federal Bar Association, Palm Beach County
- Member, Florida Association for Women Lawyers, Palm Beach County, 2011-Present
- Co-Chair, Programming, 2026-2027
- Co-Chair, Board Certification Committee, 2022-Present
- Member, Federal Bar Association, Palm Beach County Chapter
- 15th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida Pro Bono Committee, 2021-Present
- Member, Pro Bono Committee, 2021-Present
- Co-chair , Pro Bono Awards Ceremony and Ice Cream Social, Subcommittee, 2021-Present
- Co-Master of Ceremonies, Pro Bono Awards Ceremony and Ice Cream Social , 2021-Present
- Member, Jewish Lawyers Association of Palm Beach County, 2024-Present
- Founding Member and Board of Directors, 2024-Present
- Member, Palm Beach County Bar Association, 2005-Present
- Member, Co-Chair, Gender Equities Subcommittee, 2011-2012
- Committee for Diversity and Inclusion, 2011-2012
- Member, Labor and Employment Committee, 2005
学歴・資格・言語
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法務博士, magna cum laude, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center
- Staff Member, Nova Law Review
- 学士号, English, English Honors Program, Georgia Southern University
- Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal, 2001-2003
- Florida