Our People

Emphasis

Employment Discrimination
Workplace Harassment
Family and Medical Leave
Wage and Hour Law
Wage and Hour Class and Collective Actions
Labor Arbitration
Representation Petitions and Elections
Workplace Harassment

Biography

Mr. McLane represents employers before federal and state courts in a wide variety of employment and labor matters. His primary focus is employment litigation including discrimination suits under Title VII, the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. He has extensive wage and hour law experience and regularly appears before the New Jersey Department of Labor. He also represents clients in federal and state wage and hour class and collective actions. He also has experience in labor arbitrations, strike preparation, union representation elections and he has conducted numerous representation hearings before the National Labor Relations Board. Mr. McLane counsels employers on issues arising from the Family and Medical Leave Act, the New Jersey Family Leave Act, employee manuals and employment termination. He regularly provides employee training and is often quoted in news outlets regarding recent trends and changes in employment law.

Education

J.D., Seton Hall University School of Law, 1996
Where he served as Student Director of the Legislative Bureau

B.A., Labor Studies, Rutgers University - Institute of Labor & Management Relations, with High Honors.

Publications

Author of Striking Down the Workplace Fairness Bill, 19 Seton Hall Legis. J. 375 (1994) cited in the Journal of Law & Politics, January 1996.

Activities

New Jersey State Bar
New York State Bar
New Jersey State Bar Association and its Labor and Employment Section
New York State Bar Association

Cases/Courts/Judges

Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the state courts of New York and New Jersey.