our firm

Hollrah Leyden is a boutique law firm with a national practice dedicated to businesses that operate with contingent workers. Founder Russ Hollrah, a former equity shareholder of the country’s largest labor and employment law firm, anticipated the trend of companies increasing their use of contingent workers and established a law firm that would strive to become the preeminent national law firm on the legal issues affecting those relationships. Each day, the attorneys of Hollrah Leyden work diligently to meet that standard.

Operating out of its K Street offices in Washington, DC, Hollrah Leyden represents clients on structuring contingent-worker relationships in a wide variety of industries, and on defending such relationships in the courts and before federal and state administrative agencies.  Many of the disputes the firm handles are of a "bet your company" magnitude, as many of the firm’s clients operate on a business model that is predicated entirely on the contingent-workforce status of the service providers with whom they contract. Because of the firm’s unique focus on contingent workers, it has developed innovative business models that enabled certain firms to succeed in properly treating service providers as independent contractors. Moreover, through the firm’s development of creative legal strategies and arguments, it has successfully defended the treatment of service providers as independent contractors based on legal theories of first impression before the relevant tribunal.

Thought leaders on these issues, Hollrah Leyden represents companies and associations before the Congress and state and federal administrative agencies on proposals affecting contingent workers, and its attorneys have written widely on the subject. Examples of publications and advocacy efforts in this area by the firm’s attorneys are provided at the following links:

PJC Publishing: Publisher since 1992 of books and newsletters on legal issues affecting companies that do business with contingent workers

Coalition to Preserve Independent Contractor Status: Multi-industry coalition consisting of associations, companies, and independent contractors dedicated to preserving the rights of firms and individuals to enter into independent-contractor relationships