Max Fischer represents companies across the United States in labor and employment matters including internal investigations and crisis management strategies, wage and hour compliance, employee transition and noncompete issues, reductions in force, voluntary separation programs, and the separation of individual employees. Max regularly advises clients on all aspects of the employment lifecycle and has extensive experience leading the defense of complex individual and class employment litigation matters.
In his litigation practice, Max has represented clients in a wide array of class actions and business disputes, including wage and hour violations, systemic discrimination and pay inequity, breach of contract, partnership disputes, and trade secret misappropriation. He also routinely defends companies facing claims of discrimination, ERISA, wrongful termination, and defamation, as well as in traditional labor disputes. Max has worked with clients to both enforce and seek rescission of restrictive covenants, arbitration agreements, and non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements.
Max is firmly committed to forging opportunities for clients to resolve disputes both pre- and post-filing, and has extensive experience negotiating creative class action settlements through alternative dispute resolution systems, including mediation and other private dispute resolution processes.
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Employment, Law360 (2019)
Labor & Employment Star, West, Benchmark Labor & Employment (2018)