Anthony L. Martin
Profile
Mr. Martin is the managing shareholder of the Las Vegas office. His unique practice encompasses two primary components: 1) representation of management in traditional labor matters; 2) the defense of employers in employment matters.
First, utilizing his prior experience with unions and the NLRB, Mr. Martin also represents employers in traditional labor law matters, including significant R-Case experience, the preparation of responses to ULP charges, conducting labor arbitrations, union avoidance, and the negotiation and maintenance of collective bargaining agreements.
Mr. Martin also defends employers throughout the country in claims including, but not limited to, suits brought pursuant to Title VII, Americans with Disabilities Act, Family Medical Leave Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as well as corresponding state law claims and administrative charges.
Mr. Martin also engages in the firm’s preventative practice, counseling employers on a wide variety of personnel issues, including proactive employee relations, conducting seminars, harassment training and teaching effective hiring and separation techniques for employers. He regularly advises employers regarding wage and hour issues, employee handbooks, policies and procedures, employee separation, reductions in force, employee leave, employment contracts, and assists employers with responses to administrative agency complaints.
Mr. Martin is a frequent speaker in the community and a founding member of Stay Connected, a free, quarterly seminar series focusing on significant labor and employment issues. Stay Connected is a partnership of HR and legal professionals dedicated to providing and maintaining a better workplace.
Experience
Labor:
- National labor counsel for several national and regional restaurant, gaming, hospitality and convenience store clients. As recently as January 2011, was integrally involved in representing convenience store client in R-Case campaign where petition for election was withdrawn by union within 10 days of notice to employer of the same. Has successfully handled dozens of R-Case campaigns and hearings on behalf of employers in last 6-7 years, each of which resulted in union withdrawing petition for election. In 2009, integrally involved in creation and roll out of national union avoidance program for company with over 400 locations, and more than 25,000 employees. Has negotiated dozens of CBAs on behalf of national, regional and local employers.
Litigation:
- Has filed numerous motions to dismiss, which have been granted in their entirety, including one in a collective/class action against a restaurant where tipped employees alleged improper tip-pooling and various additional wage and hour violations.
- Motion for summary judgment granted in its entirety in alleged failure to pay overtime case where assistant fire chiefs in central California alleged they were not exempt from overtime.
- Has prevailed on behalf of employers in more than a dozen jury and bench trials and trial like settings and arbitrations, on matters involving the defense of cases where plaintiffs alleged violations of various federal and state discrimination and retaliation laws, environmental whistleblower statutes and contract cases.
Education and Honors
J.D., Georgia State University, 2000
M.P.A., Georgia State University, 1999
B.S., Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1993
Professional Activities
- State Bar of Nevada (Labor & Employment Section, Co-Founder and Former Treasurer)
- State Bar of Georgia
- Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce (President’s Club)
- Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) - SoCal
- Associattion of Corporate Counsel (ACC) - Nevada
- Nevada Restaurant Association
- Ogletree Deakins Stay Connected Briefing - "Independent Contractors" - Las Vegas - May 19, 2011
- Ogletree Deakins Workplace Strategies Seminar - "Ethical Issues in Employment Cases" - Chicago - May 2011
- Georgia Hospital Association webinar - "Violence, Bullying and The Law" - March 1, 2011
- Ogletree Deakins Seminar - "Workplace Violence Prevention Training Program" - Las Vegas - December 8, 2010 - December 9, 2010
- Southern Nevada Human Resources Association - "Labor Legislative Developments and Importance of Proactive Employee Relations" - Las Vegas - November 12, 2010
- BLR 2010 National Employment Law Update - "End Violence, Harassment & Bullying at Your Workplace" - Las Vegas - October 29, 2010
- Ogletree Deakins Seminar - "The Aftermath of EFCA: An Overview and Discussion of Recent NLRB Appointments, Legal and Legislative Developments and Union Organizing Tactics" - Phoenix - September 24, 2010
- Ogletree Deakins Workplace Strategies Seminar - "When Dress Codes and Style Collide; A Strategy for Employers" - Las Vegas - May 6, 2010
In The News
- July 2009 - Casino Enterprise Management Magazine - "EFCA Update"
Nevada
Georgia
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
U.S. District Court, District of Nevada
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit


