Thomas Barton Email & Phone Number

I'm an experienced business lawyer who, for the last 30 years, has helped his clients successfully solve their workplace legal and business issues. My practice is focused on class action and individual employment discrimination, wrongful discharge, wage and hour and non-competition/trade secret litigation. I also have years of experience providing practical advice and counseling to businesses and organizations in the retail, non-profit, educational, healthcare and other industries.

Listed skills include Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Class Actions, Trade Secrets, and 13 others.

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  Partner Labor And Employment Group

  Drinker Biddle & Reath Llp

  Sep 1987 - Present

  Among the hundreds of matters I have handled, the following is a brief sample:- Among the many wage and hour class action's Tom has litigated, he recently defeated class certification in an Illinois wage and hour lawsuit brought by marketing and sales employees against a national retailer who challenged their exempt administrative status.- Advised a large nonprofit in a major reorganization that included drafting new by-laws, grant proposals, and employment policies.- On behalf of a large staffing company, he brought non-competition and trade secret claims in New Jersey state court against fourteen former employees and their new employer and secured full relief for his client.- Obtained a jury defense verdict for a Fortune 50 company in a hotly contested pregnancy discrimination, retaliation and hostile work environment case.- Tried one of the first Sarbanes Oxley whistleblower cases before the Office of Administrative Law Judges in D.C., involving a former general counsel who claimed she complained about financial improprieties.- Obtained over 25 summary judgment verdicts in the last five years in a variety of employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation cases.- Represented a hospital system in a high profile religious discrimination, harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by three medical professionals.- Represented a major university in claims of sexual harassment and discrimination by a female public safety officer.- Tried the first applicant drug testing unfair labor practice charge before the National Labor Relations Board.- On behalf of a major insurance company, he convinced the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to apply a limited definition of similarly situated comparator employees in an age discrimination reduction-in-force case.- Brought novel Lanham Act and RICO claims in the federal court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against two former employees who engaged in unfair competition and other anti-competitive behavior.