Labor and Employment Practice

Paul O. Lopez, a director with Tripp Scott, chairs the firm's Labor and Employment practice and co-chairs the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice. AV-rated by Martindale Hubble, Lopez is a lawyer with extensive jury and non-jury trial experience who has represented his clients in over a hundred trials and evidentiary hearings throughout his career. Lopez was recognized in 2009 and 2010 as a “Top Lawyer” in the categories of Labor & Employment Law by the South Florida Legal Guide, the preeminent publication that identifies the top one percent of lawyers in the region. He has also been recognized in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 as a Florida Super Lawyer in the category of Labor & Employment law and Business Litigation, which is based on a peer-nominated selection of the top-five percent of lawyers in Florida. Lopez has a number of clients that also seek his guidance and assistance in drafting internal employee policies, negotiating and drafting employment agreements and separation packages, and preparing non-competition agreements and nondisclosure agreements for employees. In addition, he has successfully tried, arbitrated and mediated complex commercial-litigation matters involving partnership disputes, corporate dissolutions, corporate wind-downs and receiverships. His clients range from mid-sized regional firms to Fortune-100 national companies.