Practice Areas

Employment Litigation

Starting the Process with the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) and ICRC (Indiana Civil Rights Commission)
FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act)
IN State law wrongful termination cases (ie employee fired for refusing to work in dangerous conditions or for filing workers compensation)
Whistleblower Cases (ie employee fired for reporting wrongdoing to governing authority like OSHA)

Assistance with negotiating terms of employment contract prior to the beginning of employment
Assistance with negotiating exit from the employment relationship, including releases and nondisclosure agreements

These are all actual representative matters that have been handled to completion by Mary Kinas and Kinas Law Office LLC.

Racial discrimination – African American employee complained about use of the “n-word” at work – he was later fired for same conduct as Caucasian employee who was not fired.
Disability discrimination – Disabled veteran employed by government entity forced to quit when government entity did not provide her with proper office equipment
Pregnancy/Sex discrimination – Employee’s contract not renewed weeks after she informed her employer she was pregnant
State law wrongful termination – Employee fired after refusing to follow the order of company president to violate federal employee verification law

Negotiated separation of Vice President of construction company after company refused to pay contractually required bonus
Negotiated separation of employee at the insistence of her employer after she witnessed criminal wrongdoing and threatened to report it

Brought case where likeness of Las Vegas strip performed was misused in advertising for show after his departure
Assisted homeowner in litigation involving libel and slander by a former neighbor and business partner
Filed litigation against purchaser of real estate who refused to follow through on terms of purchase agreement