Michael Kabat is a founding partner of KCO and leads the Firm’s labor and employment practice. Mike has practiced labor and employment law on behalf of management exclusively for over 25 years, representing employers on a nationwide basis in all phases of employment law and labor relations, with particular expertise in class and collective action wage and hour law. This includes representing clients before state and federal courts, as well as before the Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and numerous other state and federal agencies.Mike and his team have successfully handled over 50 state and federal law wage and hour class and collective actions over the past few years, having never lost at class certification. This record of success has resulted in the group serving as national employment litigation counsel to one of the nation’s largest cable telecommunications companies and southeastern employment counsel to one of the country’s largest hotel chains. Mike has been recognized as a “Superlawyer®,” and named AV Preeminent® by Martindale Hubbell, and a “Top Rated Lawyer in Labor & Employment.”Specialties: Management-Side Employment Litigation, Class and Collective Action Wage and Hour Litigation, Labor Litigation, Traditional Labor, Employment Counseling and Advice