Alan I. Model has been representing employers throughout the country in all aspects of labor relations and employment law since 1993. His practice includes:

• Defending employment discrimination cases
• Complying with the National Labor Relations Act
• Devising long-term labor objectives and strategies
• Advising during union organizing campaigns
• Handling contract negotiations and labor arbitrations
• Collective bargaining
• Drafting employment agreements and policies
• Enforcing restrictive covenants
• Arbitration and mediation

Alan has unique experience representing a variety of employers across the country as well as locally. He works with:

• Hotels and casinos
• Retailers
• Food industry
• Construction industry
• Manufacturing companies
• Information technology corporations

In addition, Alan helps to foster positive employee relations and provides management training. He also counsels human resource professionals with regard to day-to-day workplace issues, including:

• Wage-hour classifications
• Managing in a unionized workplace
• Sexual discrimination
• Harassment
• Diversity
• Downsizing
• Conducting investigations

He also assists employers in the development of strategies required for opening new facilities, mergers, relocations, consolidations of existing facilities, acquisitions, subcontracting, reductions-in-force, and drafting and reviewing buy-sell agreements for asset transactions. He has been involved in more than 100 union organizing campaigns on behalf of management.

Alan regularly writes about cutting-edge labor and employment law issues and is a prolific speaker on hiring/firing, sexual harassment, and pro-employee relations, as well as those topics pertaining to construction labor law. He is a member of the firm's Traditional Labor Law, Unfair Competition and Trade Secrets and Retail and Hospitality practice groups.

Before working at Littler Mendelson, Alan practiced management-side employment and labor law for 13 years and worked for a member of the NLRB.

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS

• Member, New Jersey State Bar Association
• Member, New York State Bar Association
• President, Essex County Bar Association, 2011-2012
• Officer/Trustee, Essex County Bar Association, 2000-2011

RECOGNITION

• Named, America's Leading Lawyers for Business - Chambers USA, 2012
• Named, Super Lawyer - New Jersey, 2008-2011
• Named, LRI Top 100 Labor Attorneys, 2008-2010
• Awarded, Martindale-Hubbell AV® Peer Review Rating