Joseph E. Abboud

How Joe Helps Clients

Joe represents clients on a broad range of employment issues, including wage-and-hour, discrimination and retaliation, and whistleblower matters. He has represented clients in all stages of litigation, from intake to appeal, before federal and state courts and administrative agencies. 

Prior to joining Buchanan, Joe worked at the Department of Labor, where he advised investigators and represented the government in enforcement actions involving the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, and whistleblower laws like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He also worked at a boutique employment litigation firm in D.C. where he litigated numerous single-plaintiff discrimination, retaliation, and whistleblower claims.

What Clients Can Expect

Joe provides his clients passionate legal advocacy and practical, results-oriented solutions. He enjoys learning the day-to-day inner workings of each client he represents, and will tailor his approach to meet each client’s particular circumstances. While Joe is a forceful litigator, he particularly enjoys working with clients in the early stages of a matter to craft a strategy aimed at avoiding litigation and disruptions to the business. 

I aim to help clients by implementing manageable workplace solutions that can help maintain a productive workforce and avoid litigation, and, when needed, providing a zealous defense to protect their interests through trial.

Outside the Office

Outside the office, Joe enjoys baking, making music, and hiking with his wife and two young daughters.

Proof Points 

• Obtained numerous favorable settlements for clients in discrimination, retaliation, and whistleblower matters
• Argued and won Fair Labor Standards Act white-collar exemption case in the First Circuit Court of Appeals
• Successfully defeated constitutional challenges to Department of Labor’s adjudication of whistleblower claims before administrative law judges and federal district court