Michael Anderton

Michael Anderton is Counsel in the Cleveland office of Tucker Ellis & West LLP. He is a trial lawyer who practices mainly in the areas of business litigation and employment and labor law and litigation. He has extensive experience counseling and representing a wide variety of businesses in commercial disputes, including those involving non-competition agreements, trade secret claims, and business-related torts, as well as employment lawsuits involving alleged discrimination, wrongful discharge, and compliance with federal and state employment laws. He has represented private sector service providers, banks and financial institutions, real estate investment firms, and a broad spectrum of manufacturing businesses and Ohio public entities. He also counsels and represents various benefit and pension plans and plan administrators in litigation of claims arising out of ERISA-covered plans. Michael also has extensive traditional labor law experience representing employers at the National Labor Relations Board and Ohio's State Employment Relations Board, and regularly negotiates, and counsels employers regarding compliance with, collective bargaining agreements.

Michael has tried cases in federal and state courts in Ohio and before the National Labor Relations Board and Ohio's State Employment Relations Board, and he has arbitrated dozens of cases on behalf of private and public sector clients. In addition, he has extensive experience mediating cases in federal and state court and before the EEOC, Ohio Civil Rights Commission, and other administrative agencies and has resolved many cases favorably for his clients through mediation.

Civic & Professional Involvement

AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland 
      Member of Board of Directors; General Counsel & Member of Executive Committee

Published Articles and Chapters

“E-Discovery Best Practices”, Inside the Minds published by Aspatore Books (2008)

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