Russell Zimmerer advises and represents clients in a broad range of employment law matters, including cases involving:

• Individual and class action wage and hour disputes
• Title VII
• The Fair Labor Standards Act
• The Family and Medical Leave Act
• The Occupational Safety and Health Act
• Claims of discrimination and harassment
• Covenants not to compete
• Trade secrets
• Employment contracts

Notably, he is currently handling a nationwide wage and hour collective action alleging the misclassification of 20 job codes. He also provides clients with compliance counseling.

Prior to joining Littler Mendelson in 2010, Russell spent a year serving as a federal judicial law clerk in the Eastern District of Wisconsin where he took part in numerous litigation proceedings. As a law student, he externed for two federal judges in the Northern District of Texas, worked as a research assistant to one of his professors and served on the International Law Review where he was a 2007 best case note finalist.

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS

• Member, Dallas Bar Association
• Member, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers

RECOGNITION

• Recipient, Buck J. Wynne Scholarship
• Phi Delta Phi Legal Honors Fraternity