Neil Henrichsen
Trial lawyer for whistleblowers, employees, civil rights and business
36 years of experience
District of Columbia, Florida, New Jersey, Virginia
- Biography
Neil L. Henrichsen has been a voice for working people his entire professional career. Mr. Henrichsen is an experienced AV Rated civil trial lawyer representing exclusively employees in whistleblower, discrimination, sexual harassment, and other employment and labor claims. Mr. Henrichsen also works in the civil rights law field and has successfully tried to verdict numerous cases before juries and judges in state and federal courts throughout the United States.
Mr. Henrichsen has over 33 years of employment and labor law experience primarily advocating for the rights of employees, including executives of all levels, sales executives, financial advisors and finance professionals, physicians, nurses and other health care workers, attorneys, accountants, all trades and line workers. Mr. Henrichsen is an AV Rated civil trial lawyer, the highest rating from the Martindale Hubble law directory, is listed in Martindale Hubbell’s Bar Register of Pre-Eminent Attorneys, has been awarded a SuperLawyer designation for Employment Law in 2021- 2023, Best Lawyers designation and has been featured in a list of “Washington DC & Baltimore’s Top Rated Lawyers” as well as top ratings from other lawyer directory services.
Taking an innovative and aggressive approach for his clients, Mr. Henrichsen has tried to verdict numerous cases for employees before juries and judges in state and federal courts throughout the United States.
Mr. Henrichsen is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Virginia, State of New Jersey, State of Florida, Court of Federal Claims, various federal district, bankruptcy and appellate courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Fourth and Eleventh Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Henrichsen can be reached at nhenrichsen@hslawyers.com
- Practice Areas
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law
- Construction Law
- Construction Contracts, Construction Defects, Construction Liens, Construction Litigation
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Products Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
- Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- District of Columbia
- Since 1989
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- Languages
- English:
Spoken, Written
- Professional Experience
- Member
- Henrichsen Law Group, P.L.L.C.
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2000 –
Current
- Mr. Henrichsen handled legal matters on behalf of individuals and businesses in state and federal courts, state and federal administrative agencies, and alternative dispute resolution forms. Mr. Henrichsen has experience trying employment and labor cases before juries and judges in state and federal courts throughout the United States. The areas of practice at this firm include employment and labor law, civil rights law, and commercial and civil litigation.
- Member
- Mitterhoff, Henrichsen, & Stewart, P.L.L.C.
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1990 –
2000
- Participation in all aspects of the firm’s practice, which focused on plaintiff-side employment/labor law, civil rights law, and surety and construction law involving federal, state, and local government public contracts. Other areas of experience involved litigation before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, and other federal administrative agencies as well as cases involving disputes on private construction projects. Additionally, the firm handled trial work and alternative dispute resolutions in commercial law matters and employment law cases.
- Associate Attorney
- Webster and Fredrickson
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1988 –
1990
- Mr. Henrichsen was an associate attorney in a boutique employment litigation law firm, working on individual employment cases and Title VII class action against the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Information Agency that resulted in the largest payout by the federal government in history.
- Law Clerk
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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1986 –
1988
- Mr. Henrichsen was a law clerk while attending law school at one of the premier corporate law firms in the United States. Mr. Henrichsen worked on merger and acquisition research, various corporate laws issues, and corporate sale documents.
- Education
- American University Washington College of Law
- J.D.
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- American University
- M.A. | Law and International Affairs
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- Awards
- Professional Associations
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Florida State Bar
 # 111503
- Member
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1997 –
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