The Law Offices of Santiago J. Padilla, P.A. takes pride in providing high quality legal services to its individual and commercial clients. Located in the prestigious Brickell Avenue area of downtown Miami, the Firm focuses its practice in the areas of Employment Law, Employment-Based Immigration Law, and Commercial Transactions, including Commercial Litigation.
The Firm was established in 1999 for the specific purpose of offering small business and individual clients with high quality legal services at small firm rates. Santiago J. Padilla, the founder of the Firm, has been practicing law for over eighteen years, spending a majority of that time with major U.S. law firms based in Atlanta, Miami and New York. As such, Mr. Padilla brings the expertise and sophistication of a large-firm practice to the Firm’s individual and business clients.
The primary practice areas of the Firm are:
- Employment Law - covering all aspects of the employment relationship
- Immigration Law - Employment-based visas, which includes non-immigrant and immigrant visas for temporary and permanent workers
- Commercial Transactions and Litigation - involving commercial disputes and commercial transactions of various types
We welcome any questions or comments regarding any of our practice areas or legal issues that you may have. Feel free to contact us at any time!
Practice Areas
- Employment Law
- FLSA Wage and Hour Claims (Overtime)
- Employment Discrimination
- Age Discrimination
- Disability Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment
- Hostile Work Environment
- Retaliation in the Workplace
- Whistleblower Claims
- Family and Medical Leave
- Employment and Separation Agreements
- Non-Compete Agreements
- Independent Contractors/Employees
- Unemployment Compensation
- Immigration Law – Employment Based Visas
- Commercial Matters
- Commercial Litigation
Recent Blog Posts
- Amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act have Significant Ramifications to Employees Claiming Workers' Compensation Injuries and Medical Restrictions Employees who are injured on the job and placed on lifting or other restrictions may find relief in the 2008 Amendments to the Americans with ....
- Florida District Court of Appeal Holds That Violation of Company Policy Not Sufficient to Deny Unemployment Compensation Benefits I am very happy to report that we prevailed last week on an unemployment compensation appeal for a client that was denied unemployment benefits ....
- Being Fired After Filing a Workers' Compensation Claim May Constitute Illegal Retaliation under Florida Law We are seeing many situations in our Miami office where an employee who gets injured on the job is then fired soon after he files a Workers' ....