Michael represents and counsels his clients in a wide range of labor and employment matters, including issues involving wage and hour compliance, leave and accommodation requests, restrictive covenants, trade secret misappropriation, and terminations.
Michael is an associate in the firm's Labor + Employment Practice Group. He focuses his practice on representing employers in wage and hour class and collective actions, FMLA claims, ADA claims, restrictive covenant and trade secret litigation, and wrongful termination actions. He has extensive experience representing his clients before federal and state courts across the U.S., as well as federal, state, and local administrative agencies.
In addition to his litigation practice, Michael routinely counsels his clients through a number of complex issues, including independent contractor misclassification, exempt employee misclassification, restrictive covenant violations, trade secret misappropriation, managing leave and accommodation requests, and terminations. Michael also helps draft and revise employee handbooks, employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, severance agreements, and restrictive covenant agreements.
Every year since 2018, Michael has been recognized as a North Carolina "Rising Star" by Super Lawyers, a rating service of outstanding attorneys from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional development.
Representative matters may include engagements before joining Troutman Pepper.
Speaking Engagements
02.28.24
North Carolina Bar Association's 2024 Fundamentals of Employment Law Webinar
Articles + Publications
09.01.23
Department of Labor Introduces New Proposal to Revise Salary Threshold
Hiring to Firing Law Blog
08.25.22
Third Circuit Limits Nonresident Opt-In Plaintiffs’ Ability to Join FLSA Collective Actions, Deepening Circuit Split