Kelly Dobbs Bunting > Greenberg Traurig LLP > Philadelphia, United States > Lawyer Profile
Greenberg Traurig LLP Offices

2700 TWO COMMERCE STREET
2001 MARKET STREET
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103
PENNSYLVANIA
United States
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Kelly Dobbs Bunting

Work Department
Labor & Employment
Position
Shareholder
Career
Kelly Bunting is Co-Chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice’s Workforce Compliance & Regulatory Enforcement group. She litigates federal and state class and collective actions alleging wage and hour violations, misclassification, overtime, minimum wage and off-the-clock work. She also defends employers around the country in single plaintiff litigation involving gender, age, disability, race, national origin, religious and pregnancy discrimination, harassment and retaliation; whistleblower claims; theft of trade secrets; breach of duty; breach of employment agreements and restrictive covenants. Kelly has appeared before the EEOC, the NLRB, the DOL and many state agencies. She drafts and negotiates national and international employment agreements, secondment agreements, settlement and severance agreements. She has represented employers in numerous U.S. Department of Labor audits and investigations, and has conducted labor and employment due diligence in many M&A transactions.
Concentrations
Labor and employment litigation
Employment/HR counseling
International labor and employment law
Compliance/HR training
Capabilities
Labor & Employment
International Employment, Immigration & Workforce Strategies
Litigation
Trial Practice
Admission to Practice
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Education
- J.D., Temple University Beasley School of Law, 2001
- B.A., Communications, Broadcast News, University of South Florida
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Greenberg Traurig LLP operates a large labor and employment practice, with the size and resources to handle a range of matters, from pay equity to restrictive covenants to workplace investigations. Also of note is the firm’s GT Training Workshop, which offers clients highly interactive training on a wide variety of legal compliance topics. The team is led by Philadelphia-based James N. Boudreau and Denver-based Naomi Beer. Also in Philadelphia is Kelly Dobbs Bunting; she stands out for her work with technology companies.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Healthcare: health insurers
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Industry focus > Energy regulation: electric power
- Industry focus > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Environment: litigation
- Industry focus > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Fintech
- Industry focus > Healthcare: service providers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Industry focus > Healthcare: life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Industry focus > Transport: rail and road - litigation and regulation
- Industry focus > Environment: transactional
- Industry focus > Transport: aviation and air travel - litigation and regulation