Strianese Huckert LLP

Focus and who the firm represents

The work here sits in a single field: employment law, on the side of the employee. The firm is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. It represents workers in disputes with the companies and people who employ them. It practices across North Carolina, so its reach is not limited to the Charlotte area.

In my opinion, that choice of side tells you how the firm is set up to think. A firm that takes only employee cases builds its routines around one kind of client. The people who walk in have usually lost a job, been treated unfairly at work, or been paid less than the law allows. The firm's whole listing points in that direction.

The workplace matters it handles

The firm covers a wide slice of employment law. It handles wrongful termination for people fired for reasons the law does not permit. It takes discrimination cases, and the list of grounds is broad: gender, race and national origin, age, religion, pregnancy, disability, and sexual orientation. Sexual harassment is a named part of the work.

Pay disputes form another part. The firm handles wage and hour and overtime claims, the cases where a worker is owed money that an employer did not pay. It also represents whistleblowers and workers who face retaliation. These are people punished for reporting conduct they believe is unlawful.

Taken together, the list covers most of the situations that send a worker to an employment lawyer. A firing that feels wrong, a pattern of unequal treatment, a paycheck that comes up short, or a contract clause that limits the next job. A person often does not know which legal category fits their problem, and a firm that covers the field can help sort that out.

Contracts and leave

Not every matter starts with a firing or a complaint. The firm advises on non-competition and trade secret issues, the terms that limit what a worker can do after leaving a job. It also reviews employment and severance agreements, the documents that set the terms of a role or its end.

Two more areas round out the work. The firm handles Family Medical Leave Act claims, which concern a worker's right to protected time away. It also takes disability discrimination cases and commercial litigation. That mix lets one firm follow a workplace dispute through several forms.

How the team is built

Three attorneys carry the firm's name and its cases: Tamara Huckert, Chris Strianese, and T. Jonathan Adams. The firm says its attorneys hold more than 40 years of combined employment law experience. That figure covers the group, not any single person.

Chris Strianese spent nearly a decade as an employment litigator at a large national law firm. In that role he handled employment cases for Fortune 500 companies, hedge funds, private equity firms, and small businesses. Much of that work sat on the employer side of the dispute. As a reviewer, I read that as useful context: he has seen how large companies prepare and defend these cases, and now he brings that view to workers.

Tamara Huckert has primarily represented employees in employment disputes for over ten years. Her career has stayed on the worker's side of the table, which lines up with the firm's stated focus. T. Jonathan Adams is the third attorney listed with the firm and shares in its employment work.

A deliberately small caseload

One claim the firm makes about itself is worth stating plainly. It says it takes on a small number of cases and gives each one substantial time, not a high volume of clients. That is a choice about how the firm runs, and the firm puts it front and center.

A smaller docket has a plain meaning for a client. Each case competes with fewer others for an attorney's hours and attention. The model fits a firm with three named attorneys and one area of focus. In my opinion, it is the kind of claim a prospective client can test early, by asking who will handle the file and how often they will hear from that person.

The approach also shapes who the firm is a fit for. A worker with a claim inside the firm's areas gets a team that has chosen to keep its numbers low. That structure points toward direct contact with a named attorney rather than a case file passed down a long chain. The firm states this preference plainly on its own site, so a prospective client knows the model going in.

What a prospective client can weigh

The picture is clear enough to act on. Strianese Huckert LLP is a Charlotte employment firm that represents employees, with three attorneys and experience across the main kinds of workplace dispute a North Carolina worker might face. Its two profiled attorneys bring a mix of backgrounds, one shaped by large-firm defense work and one built on years of employee representation.

The clearest signals in the firm's listing are its employee-side focus, its span of practice areas, and its stated choice to keep the caseload small. A worker weighing Strianese Huckert LLP has a defined starting point. The next step is a direct conversation about the specific claim and who would handle it.