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John M. Bredehoft

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T (757) 624.3225
F (757) 624.3169
jmbredehoft@kaufcan.com

John is a partner in the Labor and Employment Law Practice Group of Kaufman & Canoles. His practice emphasizes litigation and litigation-avoidance strategies, and regularly includes discrimination and harassment matters, executive contracts, trade secret and computer crime cases, and advice and litigation on covenants restricting post-employment competition.

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Representative Matters

  • Defended multiple federal court “collective” actions alleging unpaid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, as well as other single-employee claims
  • Successfully enforced many covenants restricting competition by former employees, including obtaining preliminary injunctions against unfair competition and money damages for violation of a valid covenant
  • Successfully defended against many attempts to enforce invalid covenants, either by negotiated resolution or litigation, on behalf of new employers
  • Serves as national counsel for large insurer providing advice on employment grievance arbitration agreements to insurer’s clients nationwide
  • Successfully defended employers against many claims under federal anti-discrimination laws, including obtaining summary judgment for an employer in a race case where a supervisor admittedly used “the n-word”

Recognition and honors

  • Best Lawyers in America, 1995-2012
  • Norfolk Labor and Employment Lawyer of the Year; Best Lawyers in America, 2010
  • America’s Leading Business Lawyers; Chambers USA, 2004-2011
  • Virginia Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition; Law & Politics, 2008-2010
  • Virginia Super Lawyers; Law & Politics, 2007-2011
  • Virginia’s Legal Elite; Virginia Business Magazine, 2009-2011
  • AV® Rated; Martindale-Hubbell
  • Past member; Virginia State Bar faculty on Professionalism
  • Current member; Virginia State Bar faculty on Professionalism for Law Students
  • “Lawyer of the Year;” Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, 1996

Associations

  • Virginia Bar Association; Chairman, Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law, 2006-2007; Member, Governing Council, Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law, 1997-2009
  • American Bar Association; Labor & Employment, Litigation
  • District of Columbia Bar
  • Virginia Continuing Legal Education Advisory Committee on Employment Law

Education

  • Harvard College; A.B., magna cum laude in History, 1980
  • Harvard Law School; J.D., cum laude, 1983

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