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
- Florida Court of Appeals Reverses Unemployment Appeals Commission Decision that Denied Unemployment Benefits to Employee for Isolated Violations of Company Policy I am happy to report that last week we won an appeal to the Florida Third District Court of Appeals in which we appealed the Unemployment Appeals ....
- Equal Pay Act Lawsuit Against University of Miami Alleges that Woman was not Paid the Same as Men for the Same Work Last week we filed a lawsuit in Federal Court under the Equal Pay Act of 1963 on behalf of our client alleging that her former employer, the ....
- Florida Minimum Wage Increases Again in 2012 On January 1, 2012, Florida's minimum wage increased to $7.67 per hour for all hours worked by covered nonexempt employees. The federal minimum wage, ....