Michael J. Volpe is the Practice Group Head of Venable’s nationwide Labor & Employment practice. The L&E group has practitioners and thriving practices in all offices practicing in all labor and employment law disciplines. The current nationwide focus of the practice group centers on 1) restrictive covenant, employee mobility and complex and class action employment litigation; 2) wage-hour defense of class and collective actions claims; 3) traditional labor relations matters including proceedings before the NLRB; and 4) workplace safety and OSHA related issues and claims.

Mr. Volpe also has defended certain claims in high profile commercial litigation and other litigation matters including the following recent representations:

Gomez-Jiminez, et al. v. New York Law School, et al
Casey, et al. v. Florida Coastal School of Law, et al.
Cooper v. The Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross, et al.

The Venable Labor & Employment group has grown since Mr. Volpe joined Venable. The group currently represents employers and businesses of all sizes across the country. Mr. Volpe represents a number of foreign based clients with operations in the U.S. and has extensive experience representing clients in commercial litigation matters. He is frequently looked to by certain long-standing clients to provide advice on transactional issues relying on his practical approach to problem solving.

Labor Relations & Labor Law
Mr. Volpe has substantial collective bargaining experience involving theatrical and entertainment, healthcare, restaurant, hotel and hospitality, and textile and manufacturing clients. He regularly handles labor relations issues unique to mergers and acquisitions and in bankruptcy situations, he represents clients in contract administration and he has represented clients in many arbitration and mediation proceedings.

Employment Law & Wage-Hour Litigation
Mr. Volpe is an experienced trial lawyer having litigated on behalf of employers before administrative agencies and in federal and state courts. He has extensive jury trial experience in defending all types of employment related claims under federal, state and local laws. Mr. Volpe’s practice currently includes the representation of various clients against claims under federal, state and, as applicable, local wage-hour statutes. His practice also includes the defense of wage-hour class actions matters under federal and state laws.

Commercial, Business & Restrictive Covenant Litigation
Mr. Volpe has represented clients defending claims of breach of contract, unfair business practices, unpaid sales commissions, violations of restrictive covenants and various tort business tort claims. He has bench and jury trial experience in the commercial area with a number of cases resulting in defense verdicts.

Representative Clients
Over the past 20+ years, Mr. Volpe has represented domestic and international corporations, including several Fortune 500 companies, in the health care, real estate, textile, retail, technology, manufacturing, entertainment, and restaurant and hospitality industries.