Litigators with international labor law firm Littler Mendelson helped procure a defense verdict for a Florida agriculture company facing a whistleblower complaint filed by a disgruntled former employee.

On May 24, a jury in Collier County Circuit Court returned a favorable verdict to produce company Lipman and Lipman Inc. The Immokalee-based business had been named as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by Brian Bishop, Lipman’s former chief information officer. As outlined in a July 2013 complaint, Bishop alleged he was unlawfully terminated by his longtime employer after raising concerns about Lipman’s purported history of recruiting undocumented workers for the company’s farm fields and packing houses.

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