Speaker

Mr. Fishman chairs the 20-member Workplace Law Group at Bodman PLC. Mr. Fishman has more than 40 years of experience in all facets of labor and employment law, representing management exclusively. He served as a trial attorney with the Pittsburgh Region of the NLRB, was associated with a large Chicago law firm’s labor and employment practice group, was in-house labor counsel to a Detroit-based Fortune 500 manufacturing business, and headed up his own labor and employment boutique law firm, The Fishman Group, with clients throughout the country. Mr. Fishman is a frequent speaker to management groups, such as the Society for Human Resource Management, various health care and construction trade associations, and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, on finding creative, business-oriented solutions to workplace legal problems. He writes a regular column for the Michigan Chamber’s business magazine, Michigan Forward, on emerging workplace law issues. Mr. Fishman is listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2013 under Employment Law-Management, Labor Law-Management, and Litigation-Labor & Employment. He is listed as a 2012 Top Lawyer by DBusiness magazine and is AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.