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 30 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 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

J.D., University of Michigan (1994)

Associate Editor, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (1992-93)

B.A., University of Michigan, with distinction (1991)

Editor-in-Chief, The Michigan Daily (1990)

Admissions

• Illinois

Courts

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• U.S. District Court for the Central, Northern and Southern Districts of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin