Michael L. Wolfram
(805) 491-2770
mwolfram@wolframworkplacelaw.com
http://wolframworkplacelaw.com

Professional Experience

WOLFRAM WORKPLACE LAW, Camarillo/Los Angeles, CA 2002 –

• Employment dispute mediator (member, Los Angeles Superior Court ADR Panels; Ventura County Superior Court ADR Panels; and, USDC, Central District of California Attorney Settlement Officer Panel)
• Neutral Arbitrator
• Independent outside investigator of workplace complaints
• Consulting and testifying expert on workplace investigations and employment law issues
• Employment policies and practices and employment law

MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP, Los Angeles, CA 1976 – 2002
(Partner 1979-2002)

• Practiced all aspects of traditional labor law (NLRA, LMRA, ALRA, contract negotiations and administration, arbitration, and Section 301/DFR suits) and employment law, with an emphasis on wrongful discharge, discrimination, wage and hour, and other employment claims from their inception through trial or arbitration and appeal; counseled on a wide range of labor and employment topics, including non-discriminatory employment policies and practices, mediation and arbitration policies, workforce reductions, acquisition, merger and disposition planning, and substance abuse policies, and wage and hour compliance, to name a few, and conducted anti-harassment training and briefings on those and many other employment law topics

• Litigated and tried employment disputes, including discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, common law claims, unfair competition/trade secrets/restrictive covenants, employee benefits, and wage and hour claims (individual and class actions). Tried cases to defense jury verdicts, state and federal court. Defended hundreds of employment discrimination and wrongful discharge cases resolved on dispositive motion, in arbitration, or by settlement before trial, either bilaterally or in mediation.

• Industry experience included financial services (banks, broker-dealers, and insurers), health care, pharmaceuticals, communications, computer software and peripherals, trucking, railroad, airline, container freight shipping, manufacturing, retail sales, warehousing, agriculture, industrial chemicals and gases, defense and consumer electronics, secondary and higher education, staffing, publishing, professional service organizations, and amusement parks.

KINDEL & ANDERSON, Los Angeles, CA 1972 – 1976
Associate. Practiced traditional labor law.


UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS, FIFTH CIRCUIT 1971 – 1972
Law Clerk for the Honorable John C. Godbold, Montgomery, AL


Education

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF LAW, Austin, TX
J.D. (Cum Laude), 1971
Chancellors; Order of the Coif; Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society; Associate Editor,
Texas Law Review; Director, Legal Research Board

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, New York, N.Y. 1967-1968

HARVARD COLLEGE, Cambridge, MA
A.B. (Cum Laude), 1967


Professional Organizations & Distinctions

• Fellow, The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers

• Named in Southern California Super Lawyers, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 http://www.superlawyers.com/about/

• Martindale Hubbell AV Rated

• Los Angeles County Bar Labor & Employment Section, Chair, 2006-2007, Executive Committee, 1988-1998, 2000 – present, Officer, 2003 – 2007)

• Founding Member, Society of Independent Workplace Investigators (SIWI)

• Charter Member, California Association of Workplace Investigators (CAOWI)

• Southern California Mediation Association

• American Bar Association and California Bar Labor & Employment Sections