(201) 345-5412 NJ
(646) 503-5358 NY
mike@morealaw.com
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Michael Morea
Founder and Managing Member
For 25 years, Mike has represented and counseled both Fortune 500 companies and small businesses on employment law related matters. Mike has extensive experience counseling clients on Human Resources and other employment law matters, ranging from hiring through firing. Mike’s extensive employment law experience includes counseling clients on leave laws, accommodation issues, sexual and other harassment and discrimination issues, wage and hour compliance, reductions in force, and terminations as well as drafting employee handbooks and policies, confidentiality and restrictive covenant agreements, employment and executive compensation agreements.
Although Mike focuses on assisting his clients with compliance in order to avoid litigation, Mike has extensive experience litigating employment and other matters in state and federal courts should the need for litigation arise. His litigation experience includes defending wrongful termination, wage and hour, sexual harassment, whistleblower, and breach of contract lawsuits.
After spending the majority of his professional career at a large law firm, Mike founded Morea Law in 2017 in order to provide employment law counseling to owners of small and medium sized businesses, which are typically underserved in the legal market.
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Honors and Awards:
New Jersey Super Lawyers, Employment & Labor Law (2020 to Present)
Named to Thomson Reuters list of New Jersey Super Lawyers, an honor reserved for only 5% of the attorneys in New Jersey. Information about the selection process and criteria for the Super Lawyers list can be found here.
New York - Metro Super Lawyers, Employment & Labor Law (2020 to Present)
Named to Thomson Reuters list of New York Metro Super Lawyers, an honor reserved for only 5% of the attorneys in the New York - Metro area. Information about the section process and criteria for the Super Lawyers list can be found here.
AV Preeminent Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating (2014 to Present)
AV Preeminent is the highest peer rating standard from Martindale-Hubbell. This rating signifies that the lawyer's reviewed peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence for their legal knowledge, communication skills and ethical standards. Information about the Martindale-Hubbell rating process can be found here.
New Jersey Law Journal “40 Under 40” (August 2011)
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Organizations
New Jersey State Bar Association
Bergen County Bar Association, former Co-Chair Labor & Employment Law Committee
Education
Villanova University School of Law, Masters Certificate in Business and Law of Sports, 2017
Pace University School of Law, J.D., 1997
Villanova University, B.A., 1994
Bar Admissions
New Jersey
New York
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court