Austin Employment Lawyers, P.C.

Who the firm represents

Robert J. Wiley opened this Austin firm in 2012, and it works one side of the workplace. The firm represents employees, and it carries their claims into state court, into federal court, before government agencies, and into binding arbitration. The site frames it plainly as a private employment law firm, and employment law is the whole of what it does.

Most of the work involves wrongful termination. That includes firings tied to discrimination or to retaliation for a complaint. In my opinion, a worker-only practice tells you something before you read a single case type: the firm sits in the employee's chair and argues from there.

Where most of the caseload sits

Wrongful termination anchors the practice, so it helps to know what that label covers. Texas follows at-will employment, which lets an employer end a job for many reasons. The claim turns on the reasons the law forbids, such as firing a worker for their race, their disability, or a complaint they raised. The firm's task is to show that a banned reason drove the decision.

Retaliation cases follow a similar shape. A worker reports harassment, requests leave, or joins a wage claim, and then meets a demotion or a firing. A court looks at the timing and the record to judge whether the two events link. These claims sit close to the discrimination work, and the firm handles both.

The range of employment claims

The firm sorts its cases into a few clear areas. Discrimination and harassment claims come first, and they cover race, color, disability, religion, sex, national origin, and age. The firm also handles claims involving sexual orientation and gender identity. Federal claims of this kind usually begin with a charge filed at a government agency, and that step carries a firm deadline measured in months.

Leave and accommodation form a second strand. The firm works here under the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Texas Labor Code, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Under the disabilities act, an employer and an employee are meant to talk through a workable accommodation, a step the law calls the interactive process. These matters often turn on medical records and on how fast an employer answered a request.

Pay disputes make up a third area. The firm represents employees over unpaid wages, tips, and overtime. It handles these for single clients and as collective actions, where a group of workers joins one claim. In a collective action, workers must opt in to take part, which sets it apart from a class action where members are included by default.

Contracts, severance, and whistleblower cases

Some of the firm's work happens before a dispute ever reaches a courtroom. The firm reviews employment contracts and negotiates severance, and it represents people who apply for unemployment benefits. Severance talks usually come at the end of a job, when an employer offers pay in exchange for a signed release of claims. A lawyer reads that release closely, because it can waive rights the worker may not know they hold.

Whistleblower claims round out the list, for public and private employees alike. A claim like this usually starts with a protected report. An employee flags conduct they believe breaks the law, then meets some penalty at work. The case asks a court to weigh whether the report and the penalty connect. As a reviewer, I read this spread of services as a sign the firm handles an employment problem at more than one stage of a job.

How the team is built

The firm lists three attorneys. Robert J. Wiley founded the practice and is the attorney responsible for the website. Cameron Hansen and Ty'Queese Keyes are the other two named on the attorneys page, which puts three lawyers on the roster for a focused area of practice.

Wiley is board certified in labor and employment law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. That credential carries real weight in the state. Board certification asks for several years of work in the field, references from other lawyers and from judges, and a passed written examination. The state board reviews the standing on a recurring schedule. For a client, the certification works as a shortcut: it marks experience the state has already checked.

Where the firm practices

The firm is based in Austin and names a defined service area. It serves Travis, Bexar, Comal, Gillespie, Hays, and Williamson counties in Texas. That footprint covers the Austin area, the San Antonio area, and the counties in between.

Employment cases can move between forums, and the firm follows them there. It represents workers in state court, in federal court, before government agencies that handle discrimination and wage complaints, and in arbitration when a contract calls for it. Each forum sets its own rules and clocks. Choosing the right one, and filing on time, is part of the early work in any employment case.

Individual attorney backgrounds

Robert J. Wiley earned his J.D. from Tulane University School of Law in 1999. That academic history adds a useful date to the founder's profile, even though the record does not provide his year of admission. His stated practice focus includes overtime and unpaid wage disputes, sexual harassment claims, and whistleblower matters.

Cameron Hansen earned his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2021. He also holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Hansen speaks English and German, although the record does not say whether the firm offers German-language representation as a general service.

Employee benefits and ERISA work

Hansen's profile adds employee benefits and ERISA to his stated areas of work. Those subjects do not appear in the firm's broader overview, so prospective clients with a benefits dispute may want to ask how much of the firm's current practice falls within that category. The record identifies the focus but gives no examples of benefit plans, claim types, or proceedings the firm handles.

Ty'Queese Keyes and trial work

Ty'Queese Keyes is identified as a trial attorney who represents employees in workplace disputes. She earned her J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2024. While there, she was President of the Black Law Students Association and an ACLU student liaison for ACLU of New Mexico.

Keyes also holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication from Louisiana State University, with a minor in Psychology. Her profile places her work on the plaintiff side of employment law and expressly identifies wage theft among her areas of focus. For this reviewer, the trial-attorney description is the most useful detail because it states her role within the practice rather than leaving it to inference.

Office contact details

The office address is 1011 San Jacinto Boulevard in Austin. The listed telephone number is (512) 271-5527, and the firm maintains its website at wileylawyers.com. The record does not provide office hours, appointment procedures, or details about remote consultations.