Noah A.Finkel

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Noah has represented companies in nearly 200 actual or putative collective and/or class action matters.


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Noah's principal area of concentration lies in wage-and-hour matters, in which he has represented companies in nearly 200 actual or putative collective and/or class action matters under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and/or state wage-and-hour laws. He also regularly advises companies on compliance with the FLSA and state wage-and-hour laws, including the performance of exempt status reviews and pay practice audits.

Noah co-chairs the national Wage and Hour Litigation practice group and  is one of three editors-in-chief of the treatise Wage & Hour Collective and Class Litigation, a more than 1000-page book devoted to the litigation of wage & hour matters. The treatise literally is “the book” on wage & hour litigation. Noah was lead counsel for Epic Systems in the district and appellate courts, and co-counsel at the United States Supreme Court, in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, which established that employers lawfully may require employees to enter into an arbitration agreement containing a waiver of the ability to participate in a class or collective action against their employer.

When not litigating or counseling on wage-hour matters, Noah manages labor and employment matters for several companies. In that capacity, he acts as a trusted advisor in counseling companies in several labor and employment areas, defends them in high-value cases, and manages their routine litigation.

Noah has been Ranked in Band 3 for Labor & Employment by Chambers USA, while Benchmark Litigation has recognized Noah as Labor & Employment Management Attorney of the Year in 2019 and as Top 20 Labor & Employment Litigator in 2022.

Prior to joining Seyfarth, Noah was law clerk to the United States District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds for the Eastern District of Michigan.

  • JD, University of Michigan Law School

    Associate Editor, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (1992-1993)

  • BA, University of Michigan

    With distinction
    The Michigan Daily, editor-in-chief (1990)

  • Illinois
  • US Supreme Court
  • US Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
  • US District Court, Central District of Illinois
  • US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • US District Court, Northern District of Indiana
  • US District Court, Southern District of Indiana
  • US District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
  • US District Court, Western District of Michigan
  • US District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania
  • US District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • US District Court, Western District of Wisconsin