Employment Law Attorney
Dave Kresin represents employees and small businesses in a full range of employment litigation matters including discrimination, retaliation, medical leave denial, wage and hour violations. Dave is licensed in the state courts of Arizona, Kansas and Missouri, as well as the United States District Courts for Arizona and Kansas, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Dave previously served as a law clerk to the Hon. G. Thomas VanBebber in the United States District Court for Kansas.
Dave has substantial experience in federal courts, state courts, private arbitrations, and administrative proceedings. Dave?s trial experience includes: obtaining a verdict in favor of an employee in a state law wrongful discharge trial; obtaining a unanimous defense verdict on behalf of individual defendants in a state court race discrimination and harassment trial; obtaining a unanimous $900,000 verdict in favor of individual plaintiffs in a jury trial involving contract and conversion claims and counterclaims; obtaining a favorable award on behalf of two corporate executives in an arbitration against their former employer on breach of employment contract and statutory wage claims; and obtaining prejudgment remedies on behalf of a corporate plaintiff in a state court mini-trial involving breach of contract and fraud claims.
Dave has presented on a wide variety of employment law topics and authored several articles relating to federal employment law issues including:
Presenter, "Updates on the FMLA and the ADA", Arizona Employment Lawyers Association Annual Meeting, February 2009
Co-Author, ?Federal Regulations Update,? Employment Relations Today, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006
Presenter, ?Untangling the Web of Overlapping FMLA, ADA, PDA, Workers? Comp, and Antidiscrimination Laws,? Council on Education in Management FMLA Update, October 2005
Presenter, ?Preventing Mismanagement and Improper Denial of Intermittent and Reduced Schedule Leave,? Council on Education in Management FMLA Update, March 2005
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