People: Noah A. Finkel, Partner
Biography
Noah Finkel is a partner in the Labor & Employment Department and the Wage & Hour Litigation Practice Group in Seyfarth Shaw’s Chicago office. His principal area of concentration lies in wage-and-hour matters, in which he has represented companies in more than 75 actual or putative collective and/or class action matters under the Fair Labor Standards Act and/or state wage-and-hour laws. He also regularly advises companies on compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage-and-hour laws, including the performance of exempt status reviews and pay practice audits.
Mr. Finkel is one of three editors-in-chief of the treatise Wage & Hour Collective and Class Litigation, a 912-page book devoted to the litigation of wage & hour matters. The treatise literally is “the book” on wage & hour litigation. Mr. Finkel participated in drafting of public comments to the United States Department of Labor on its proposed regulatory changes to the FLSA’s white-collar exemptions on behalf of the Society for Human Resources Management and the Public Sector FLSA Coalition.
Prior to joining Seyfarth Shaw, Mr. Finkel was law clerk to the United States District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Noah Finkel is a partner in the Labor & Employment Department and the Wage & Hour Litigation Practice Group in Seyfarth Shaw’s Chicago office. His principal area of concentration lies in wage-and-hour matters, in which he has represented companies in more than 75 actual or putative collective and/or class action matters under the Fair Labor Standards Act and/or state wage-and-hour laws. He also regularly advises companies on compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage-and-hour laws, including the performance of exempt status reviews and pay practice audits.
Mr. Finkel is one of three editors-in-chief of the treatise Wage & Hour Collective and Class Litigation, a 912-page book devoted to the litigation of wage & hour matters. The treatise literally is “the book” on wage & hour litigation. Mr. Finkel participated in drafting of public comments to the United States Department of Labor on its proposed regulatory changes to the FLSA’s white-collar exemptions on behalf of the Society for Human Resources Management and the Public Sector FLSA Coalition.
Prior to joining Seyfarth Shaw, Mr. Finkel was law clerk to the United States District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Education
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J.D., University of Michigan Law School (1994)
Associate Editor, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (1992-1993) -
B.A., University of Michigan (1991)
with distinction
Editor-in-Chief, The Michigan Daily (1990)
Admissions
- Illinois
Courts
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits
- U.S. District Court of the District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court of the Central, Northern and Southern Districts of Illinois
- U.S. District Court of the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana
- U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court of the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin
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