Employment Law Attorney Frank L. Carrabba has been engaged in the practice of labor and employment law for over 47 years. He is Board Certified in Labor and Employment law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. For over seventeen years, Mr. Carrabba has held an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating through Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory, the highest rating given by this directory, in legal ability and ethical standards. He was also featured as one of Texas’ Top Rated Lawyers in 2012 and 2013 by Martindale-Hubbell. In addition, Mr. Carrabba was selected as a Texas Super Lawyer by his peers in a comprehensive nomination and polling process as being among the top 5% of the practicing attorneys in Texas in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Texas Super Lawyers is currently a Thomson Reuters service. He was also selected as one of the Top Lawyers for an Employment Law Attorney in Houston in 2004 and 2005 in a polling process conducted by H Texas Magazine.
He began his career in 1971 in Washington, D.C. where he served as an attorney-advisor to a member (judge) of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Thereafter, from 1973 to 1977, he was a trial attorney for the NLRB in Houston and San Antonio, Texas. The first case he tried at the NLRB, Eastex, Inc., resulted in a United States Supreme Court decision in 1978.
In 1977, Mr. Carrabba went into the private practice of labor and employment law representing employers exclusively. He currently advises management clients in all areas of labor and employment law, including employment discrimination, Title VII, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Affirmative Action Programs, wrongful termination, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the National Labor Relations Act, collective bargaining, arbitration, retaliatory discharge under the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, labor relations (employee handbooks) and personnel policies.
Successful matters that he has handled on behalf of employers include a United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit win over the National Labor Relations Board in 2013; a Federal District Court victory for a construction company where a union was seeking over $8,000,000.00 in alleged damages; a Federal Court jury trial involving allegations of race and national origin discrimination; a State Court jury trial alleging age discrimination; and a dismissal of an NLRB case by an Administrative Law Judge.
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