Bio

Mr. Carey has been consistently rated by his peers, judges, and clients as preeminent and recognized by them as one of the best labor and employment attorneys in America. He has over 25 years of experience providing wise, practical, and client-focused advice, counsel, and representation to for profit and non-profit entities, health care providers, public and private educational institutions, state and municipal entities, and individuals with respect to labor and employment related matters, issues, disputes and litigation, including, but not limited to those pertaining to: employee and employer legal rights and obligations; legal compliance; strategic development; development, drafting, implementation, and interpretation of executive, physician, and other types of employment contracts/agreements; development, drafting, implementation, and management training with respect to consistent application of effective, employment policies, practices, and procedures; human resource audits; employee hiring and staffing practices; employment testing; employee retention; temporary employee staffing; severing the employment relationship; enforcability of non-compete, non-solcitation, non-disclosure and related types of agreements; reorganizations and reductions in force; compensation; benefits; FMLA and other leaves of absence; workplace accommodations; workplace investigations; zero tolerance for workplace violence, discrimination and harassment of any kind; promotion, discipline, layoff, and discharge; litigation avoidance and mitigation; equal employment opportunity; federal and state law wage and hour compliance; affirmative action; and labor/management relations issues, including effective union/management relations and stategies, union avoidance strategies, how to expeditiously defeat or avoid union corporate-wide and local organizing campaigns, collective bargaining, grievance resolution, and other labor/management related issues.

Mr. Carey routinely and effectively represents employees who have experienced wrongful or discriminatory treatment and harassment at their places of work and/or by their employers, managers, and/or coworkers; employees who have been wrongfully terminated from employment for discriminatory, retaliatory, and other illicit reasons; employees whose current or former employers seek to bar them from new employment by attempting to enforce non-compete and other restrictive terms of employment agreements and policies; and employees from whom employers seek signed releases in consideration for severance benefits. He appears on their behalf in federal and state court judicial and administrative proceedings, arbitrations and other modes of dispute resolution. He also has successfully defended hundreds of employer clients who have been subjected to individual plaintiff, multi-plaintiff, and class action litigation and other types of legal disputes involving virtually all types of federal and state statutory and common law employment-related causes of action, including EEO, ERISA, FLSA, FMLA, USERRA, Section 301(a), whistleblowing, breach of non-compete, non-disclosure, no-solicitaion and related types agreements, breach of employment contracts, breach of sales commission contracts and policies, and other federal and state statutory and common law causes of action, in federal and state courts, at arbitrations, and in proceedings before federal and state administrative agencies, including the NLRB, DOL, OSHA/ MIOSHA, the EEOC, the MDCR, and other federal and state administrative agencies. He also routinely negotiates innovative and cost effective collective bargaining agreements on behalf of employers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Partner-Gasiorek, Morgan, Greco, McCauley & Kotzian P.C.

Partner-Foley & Lardner LLP; Detroit, MI (October 2000-March 2019)

Principal- Miller Canfield; Detroit, MI (September 1998-October 2000)

Partner- Duvin, Kahn & Hutton; Detroit, MI (March 1995-September 1998)

Shareholder- Butzel Long; Detroit, MI (June 1981-March 1995)

CREDENTIALS

Education University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.; A.B. and J.D. degrees.

Court Admissions Admitted to the practice of law in Michigan in all Michigan trial and appellate courts, all federal district courts in Michigan, and various federal district courts (Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, California, Wisconsin, and Florida) and Circuit Courts of Appeal (D.C., 6th, 9th ) around the country.

Awards/Recognition Martindale-Hubbell’s highest, AV Preeminent rating; Best Lawyers in America; d-Business Top Lawyers; Lawyers of Distinction; Who’s Who in American Law; International Who’s Who; AND Who’s Who of Professionals.

Professional Associations Member of the State of Michigan Bar, Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association, American Bar Association (“ABA”), and Federal Bar Association since 1981.

Professional Leadership President of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association (2007 and 2008); member of its Board of Directors (1987-1988, 2002-2008, 2017-present); co-chair (currently) and trustee of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association Foundation (2007-present); Director (1984-1988), Secretary-Treasurer (1985-1986), Vice-President (1986-1987), and President (1987-1988) of the Detroit Barristers Association.

Professional Activities Member of the Labor, Alternative Dispute, Circuit Court and Civil Rights Sections (1981-present), volunteer pro bono attorney (1981-present), and Master for Inn of Court Program of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association.

Member of the ABA Labor and Employment Law, General Practice, Litigation, and Individual Rights and Responsibilities sections (1981-present);Vice-Chairman, ABA General Practice Section Labor Law Committee (1985-1988); Executive Committee of the ABA Human Rights Committee, Young Lawyers Division (1985-1986).

Member of the Litigation Section and Labor and Employment Committee of the Federal Bar Association (1981-present) and Social Justice Committee of the Federal Bar Association in Detroit (2005-2010).

Member of the State Bar of Michigan Labor and Employment Law, Alternative Dispute, General Practice, and Litigation sections (1981-present) and member of State Bar of Michigan Committee on Justice Initiatives/Equal Justice Initiative.

PUBLICATIONS/

SEMINARS Regularly writes articles and speaks at seminars about labor and employment related topics. These include:

Is It Time To Audit And Perhaps Change Your Payroll

Practices?

Sometime Statistics Do Not Lie

FCRA Impact On Criminal History And Background Checks

Factors That An Employer Should Consider Before Mandating Fitness For Duty Exams

Mitigating Prospect For And Appropriately Responding To Workplace Violence

Defense of FLSA Collective And Other Actions

Defending Federal And State Wage And Hour Class And Collective Actions

How To Effectively Defend Against Employment Related Class Actions

How To Minimize Prospects For Employment Related Litigation

How To Avoid Claims for Discrimination And Harassment Based On Protected Characteristics

How To Create And Implement Effective Human Resource Policies, Practices And Procedures

How To Defend Against Employment Discrimination And Other Employment Related Claims

How To Deal With Problem Employees

How To Remain Union Free

Issues And Tactics Related To and Achievement of Management Objectives During Collective Bargaining

Community Engagement Board of Directors of United Way for Southeast Michigan (2000-2005, 2008-2015), United Way Executive Committee (2008-2015), and United Way Agenda Results Committee (2011-Present); Chair of United Way Community Impact Council (2007-2012), Community Impact Council (2005-2012), and United Way Campaign Cabinet (2009-Present); Chair of the United Way Fund Distribution Committee (1995-2005); Chair of United Way Growth Unit C of Education Accounts (1990-1993); member and Chair of United Way Allocations Committee for Community Service Organizations (1990-2005); and member of the United Way Community Services Leaders Council (1998-2005).

A founder (1991) and board member of Casa Richard Charter School Academy (1991-2014).

Member of Community Advisor Board of Detroit Public School, La Academia de las Americas (2014-present).

A graduate of Leadership Detroit XI, a member of the Board of Directors for the Leadership Detroit Alumni Association (1990-93), a Leadership Detroit XII Session Coordinator (Cultivating Diversity & Combating Racism), and a Leadership Detroit Trustee (1993-2005).

Northeast Guidance Center Board of Directors (1990-1997, 2003-2009, 2014-present) and President (1992-1994).

Trustee and Vice-Chairman, Michigan Health Care Foundation (1992-1995)

American Heart Association of Southeastern Michigan Board of Directors (1993-1997).

Grosse Pointe-Harper Woods Community Task Force on Race Relations (1994).

Member (1991-2000) and Chair (1995-1998) of Catholic Social Services of Wayne County Board of Directors.

Family Services of America Board of Directors (1994-2005).

Board of Directors and Chair of Public Policy Committee for Alliance for Children and Families (1998-2005).

Board member and Officer of Warren Conner Development Coalition (1992-2004).

Notre Dame Club of Detroit (1981-present), board member (1988-1996) and President

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