Professional Services to Public Entities

O’Riordan Bethel provides long-term, short-term surge and on-call mission support and staff augmentation to federal agencies in multiple areas, including:

Acquisition and fiscal-year-end surge support.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act (PA) support.
Human Resources support for the full range of employment/EEO/labor issues, including:
    • Legal advice and consultation to senior agency management regarding HR and EEO matters.
    • Investigation of Title VII claims, to include allegations of sexual harassment.
    • Representation of agency in union contract negotiations and in unfair labor practices proceedings.
    • Litigation support: Embedded, supervised teams of attorney and non-attorney professionals within client offices to manage preparation, identification, and formulation of issues for potential litigation.
    • Legal support (paralegal, research, compliance review, document review, year-end reports, surge support).
    • Legal services (counsel, drafting, regulatory and litigation services).
    • Live HR and EEO training.
Representation of the agency before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and in labor arbitrations in employment/civil rights claims made by current and former employees.