Michael R. Futterman
New Jersey
Duane Morris LLP
200 Campus Drive, Suite 300
Florham Park
NJ 07932-1007
Tel: +1 973 424 2082
Email:
mrfutterman@duanemorris.com
Web:
www.duanemorris.com
Michael Futterman is a Partner in the New Jersey and New York offices of Duane Morris LLP, where he concentrates his practice on employment litigation, employment counseling, and complex commercial litigation.
Mr. Futterman defends employers in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies throughout New York and New Jersey in all types of workplace disputes, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistle-blower, noncompete and trade-secret matters. He likewise defends employers in wage-and-hour suits before the U.S. Department of Labor on issues including overtime pay violations, misclassification of workers’ exempt or independent contractor status, “off the clock” work and tip theft.
On the counseling side, Mr. Futterman advises management on the vast employment laws affecting businesses, including wage-and-hour compliance, noncompete and trade-secret protection, hiring and termination, policies and procedures, leaves of absence and disability accommodation, and reductions in force. He conducts internal investigations of alleged workplace misconduct, including allegations of harassment and retaliation, provides training to boards, human resources personnel, managers, and employees on a myriad of workplace subjects, and drafts and negotiates employment/independent contractor, noncompete and separation agreements and handbooks.
In addition to his employment litigation and counseling practice, Mr. Futterman also handles complex business litigation matters, including contract, partnership and corporate disputes, real estate and property litigation, business fraud, unfair competition, shareholder and brokerage claims.
Mr. Futterman is on the board of Moms Helping Moms Foundation, a baby supply and diaper bank serving low-income and vulnerable children ages 0-5 who live in New Jersey. He is also on the advisory board of NJ LEEP, a mentoring organization which seeks to empower youth from underserved neighborhoods in northern New Jersey to greater educational achievement.
Mr. Futterman is a 2004 cum laude graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, where he was articles and comments editor of the Inter-American Law Review, and a 2001 graduate of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro where he obtained a degree in Business Administration and a minor in Economics.
- New Jersey
- New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2021-2024
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Employment Law Issue, 2021 and 2022
- Listed in New Jersey Super Lawyers
- Listed in New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Stars
- Listed in New Jersey Law Journal’s New Leaders of the Bar, 2014
- AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®
Duane Morris employment lawyers regularly counsel and advise employers on compliance with federal, state and local employment laws with the goal of increasing workplace efficiency and preventing potentially disruptive litigation. We also represent management interests in responding to union organizing campaigns, negotiating collective bargaining agreements, handling administrative agency investigations and defending employment-related litigation.
Duane Morris offers practical counseling designed to prevent potentially disruptive labor and employment disputes. We handle a wide variety of employment-related litigation and are experienced in management labor relations matters.
Employment services are individually developed to reflect each client’s business goals and objectives. We assist clients in preparing employee manuals, crafting personnel policies to address the client’s business needs, implementing customized supervisory and nonsupervisory training programs, and designing compliance strategies.
As a result of our extensive experience in the labor and employment field, we strive to place our clients’ issues directly before the appropriate decision makers. In representing clients in employment and labor matters, issues may arise that require the skills of lawyers practicing in a variety of disciplines. Because of the broad scope of services offered at Duane Morris, our employment attorneys, when necessary, consult with lawyers on matters involving employee benefits, bankruptcy, business law, real estate, complex trial work and healthcare.
From a partnership of four Philadelphia attorneys in 1904, the firm has grown to be among the 100 largest in the world. Duane Morris’ lawyers now work out of offices in North America, Europe and Asia to address clients’ issues around the globe. Throughout all the growth, Duane Morris always has been guided by the same principle. At the heart of the firm is a partnership, an agreement to work together in the pursuit of its clients’ goals.
Under the leadership of the firm’s founders, and the influence of past and present chairmen, Duane Morris has embraced a culture of inclusiveness, congeniality and consensus building that is rare among law firms.