Kobi Hattan, Law Firm

Kobi Hattan Law Firm, is a boutique office that specializes in the field of labor law and provides an inclusive service for employers and workers in the wide range of the fields of labor law. The office deals with management of complex claims between employers and employees and also in ongoing accompaniment and consultation in all regard to the ongoing challenges facing them within the frame of work relations. Adv. Kobi Hattan, the firm’s founder and owner, is considered as one of the prominent and appreciated in this legal field and he serves in addition as a mediator and an arbitrator in the field, known by all the biggest firms and works in collaboration with some of them.

Management of Significant Cases in all Legal Tribunals

The office handles large and significant cases and represents its customers in the different courts including the national labor court. Adv. Hattan also serves as an arbitrator in the judicial authority of the “Histadrut”, an arbitration court that deals with legal supervision on the activity of the institutions of the “Histadrut” and its representatives. A special niche of the firm is representation of policemen and prison guards versus the Israeli Police and Israel Prison Service (respectively), and as a result of the aforementioned representation, Adv. Hattan even succeeded in bringing a change in Israel Prison Service procedures. In addition, Adv. Hattan lectures before employers and human resources managers, in conventions on the field of labor law and even in continuing education at the Israel Bar Association.
Rich Professional Experience; LL.M with Honors
Attorney Hattan was admitted to the Bar in 2010. Prior to establishing his private firm he worked in the largest and leading firms in Israel in the field of labor law. Among others, he served as a senior attorney in labor law department in the firm Tadmor, Levy & Co. Over the years Adv. Hattan represented some of the largest employers in the economy, and also foreign employers, workers’ committees, senior managers and workers. By education, he is a graduate of the Law faculty in Haifa University and has a master’s degree in Law (civil-commercial law track) with honors (as well as Dean’s honors) from the Haifa University. In addition, he is certified as a mediator on behalf of the national institute of mediation of the Israel Bar Association and an arbitrator on behalf of Bar-Ilan University and The Fisher Center for arbitrators in Israel (Including practicum).

Online Legal Services in a National Spread

Kobi Hattan Law Firm is an innovative and advanced office and therefor relies entirely on online work. As a result of that, the office has the opportunity to provide full online legal services including holding meetings in video call via Zoom or Teams, preparing claims documents from afar, documents serving via the courts’ electronic system, providing legal counsel via phone, email, WhatsApp and more. This ability enables the firm to represent customers from all over the country.

Prominent Clients and Cases

Ziv Haft Consulting and Management Ltd. (BDO) – Adv. Hattan serves as the sole legal advisor of the company and its subsidiaries in the field of labor law. This is one of the 5 largest accounting firms in Israel, that employs about 1,200 workers. The service provided is an ongoing accompaniment in all related to labor law, including continuous consultation to human resources and to the firm’s partners, drafting employment agreements, termination of work agreements and more, reply to demand letters, writing opinions and representation in legal procedures.
Etgarim Hadrachot Ltd. (After School) - Adv. Hattan serves as the only legal advisor of the company in the field of labor law. This is a company that employs over a thousand workers. The service provided is an ongoing accompaniment in all related to labor law, including continuous consultation to the company’s two CEOs and to the human resources manager, drafting employment agreements and special agreement as needed, responding to demand letters, writing opinions, aiding and accompaniment in sexual harassment inquiry and representation in legal procedures.
Sela Trading and Logistics (1999) Ltd. – Adv. Hattan serves as the only legal advisor of the company in the field of labor law. This is a company that employs about 1.300 workers and freelancers. The service provided is an ongoing accompaniment in all related to labor law, including continuous consultation to the company’s legal advisor in the field of human resources, drafting employment agreements, services provision agreements and special agreements, responding to demand letters, writing opinions and more.
A class action lawsuit for reserve duty payments and discrimination was dismissed without any compensation- The firm represented a company in response to a motion to certify a class action in the amount of NIS 11 million filed against it, on the grounds of non-payment of reserve duty benefits in accordance with the law and discrimination against employees serving in the reserves. A detailed response was submitted in which it was proven to the court that the company was acting lawfully with regard to the payment of reserve pay, that there is no discrimination whatsoever towards reservists, that the company acts lawfully with regard to the payment of reserve benefits and that the dispute is not suitable for a class action in the absence of a group and the absence of a chance that the claim will be decided in favor of the group. As part of the hearing on the motion for approval, the Labor Court recommended to the class plaintiff’s attorneys to dismiss his claim (after receiving additional data from the company), and indeed the claim was dropped without the company being required to pay anything.
Representation of a former CEO in a claim filed against him by the company for an alleged embezzlement of the company’s funds and using them for personal purposes – representation of a former CEO who discovered, to his surprise, one bright day, that the company’s owner and chairman of the board wishes to fire him and take his job. The dismissal was unlawful, without a hearing and after only three days earlier the CEO’s far-reaching terms were agreed upon, including a prolonged early notice of 6 months and financial rights in case of a sell of the company. The CEO demanded his rights and during a negotiation for a work termination agreement, the chairman of the board “revealed” the use allegedly done by the CEO with the company’s funds for his own personal purposes, while denying the documented agreements of the parties in this matter throughout the entire period of employment. In the beginning it was claimed that it is a sum of about NIS 600,000 and this sum climbed and reached during the legal demand to more than NIS 2 million. In the framework of the representation a legal counter claim was served for the payment of the CEO’s rights according the agreements with him, for a sum of more than NIS 1 million. The case is still ongoing.