Job Milfort

Prioleau, Milfort & Rivers

Job Milfort

Prioleau, Milfort & Rivers

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Job J. Milfort is a founding and managing partner of Prioleau & Milfort, LLC.  He focuses his practice on Employment Law and Business Disputes. Job primarily handles employment discrimination and retaliation claims; failure to pay minimum wage and overtime issues; and breach of contract cases. He also handles cases involving restrictive covenants, trade secret misappropriation, and partnership dissolutions.

Since forming his own practice, Job has obtained favorable results for business owners and a variety of professionals including: Lawyers, Doctors, Dentists, Pilots, Scientists, Chief Executive Officers, Executive Vice Presidents, Directors, Regional and General Managers, Law Enforcement Officers, Educators, Administrators, Paralegals, Managers, Sales Representatives, hourly workers, and Federal employees.

For example, in July 2016, Job secured a significant settlement for his client on the eve of trial after nearly four years of litigation. In December 2014, Job obtained a $615,000 settlement for his client after winning at trial, and shortly before the parties were scheduled to have a hearing on damages. He has also obtained numerous six figure settlements for professionals alleging violations of their employment rights.

In addition to representing employees, Job has successfully assisted business owners in complying with minimum wage, overtime and other legal requirements. He is regularly called upon to serve as Counsel for his clients in matters before the U.S. Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other agencies.

In recognition for his work on behalf of his clients, Job was selected as a 2017 and 2018 Georgia Super Lawyer in Employment & Labor. From 2012-2016, he was selected as a Rising Star Super Lawyer in Employment & Labor. Job was also selected as one of Georgia Trend’s “Legal Elite” in Labor & Employment in 2012, 2013, and 2017. He is a long-standing member of the National Employment Lawyers Association and is a former member of the Georgia Chapter’s (NELA-GA) Board of Directors.

Prior to forming his own law firm, Job practiced with the law firms of Alston & Bird, LLP and Baker Donelson. During his tenure at these firms, Job represented national and international employers in nearly all areas of employment law. Job also handled lawsuits alleging breach of contract, interference with business relations, fraud, conversion, unfair competition, breach of fiduciary duties, and negligence.

Job’s appellate work includes successfully arguing before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of an inmate alleging deliberate indifference to his medical needs. See Brown v. Johnson, 387 F.3d 1344 (11th Cir. 2004). He has also appeared before the Georgia Supreme Court in a suit brought against an insurance provider for negligent or bad faith failure to settle. See Trinity Outdoor, LLC v. Central Mutual Insurance Co., 285 Ga. 583 (2009).

In law school, Job interned with the Honorable John M. Facciola, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia. While there, Job assisted with decisions and attended hearings involving, among other things, employment law claims. He has also worked as a paralegal and law clerk with Hirschhorn & Bieber, PA, a prominent criminal defense firm in his hometown Miami, Florida.

In September 2015, Job served as a speaker at GABWA’s 2015 Small/Solo Firm Symposium, Tools of the Business and Practice of Law. In February 2013, Job presented “Risky Business: Fundamental Employment Law Issues for the Smaller Employer” at the National Bar Association’s Mid-Winter meeting in Nassau, Bahamas.  In November 2010, Job presented “Employment Law Issues Related to the Use of H2B Immigrant Workers” to leaders in the Mobile Entertainment industry in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Job has published “Religious Discrimination: Knowing employees’ rights concerning religious practices,” Smart Business Magazine, July 2008. He has also served as a Chapter Editor – Linderman & Kadue, ABA Age Discrimination in Employment Law 2007-2009, and 2011-2013 Cumulative Supplements (BNA); and a Contributing Author – Coleman, ABA The Family and Medical Leave Act 2007, 2008 and 2009 Cumulative Supplement (BNA).