With significant expertise and experience in many facets of the law, Howard provides clients with extraordinarily skilled counseling and advocacy. Howard primarily counsels employers in both the public and private sectors on issues ranging from collective bargaining, labor negotiations, personnel consulting and training, labor arbitrations and mediation, to all aspects of administrative and judicial proceedings, including injunctive relief, NLRB unfair labor practice actions and civil rights administrative and judicial actions. Howard has successfully defended multiple “donning and doffing” (wage and hour/overtime) suits before District Courts, Courts of Appeal and Supreme Court of the United States, and has argued and established significant defenses used by employers in many industries.

Howard has achieved significant and numerous successes in complex commercial litigation involving a wide array of business disputes ranging from civil rights to RICO in federal and state courts throughout the country on behalf of clients in many industries,
including Keystone Foods LLC, Reading Anthracite Company, Philadelphia Health Care Trust, The Board of Directors of City Trusts, and Penn Terminals.