Sage E.Fishelman

Sage is involved in various traditional labor, single-plaintiff, and class matters. His practice areas include:

• Labor arbitration, unfair labor practice litigation, labor disputes, and related counseling.
• Representing employers in connection with representation petitions and union organizing.
• Labor and employment counseling, litigation strategy, and management.
• Defending individual actions for wrongful termination, discrimination, and failure to provide a reasonable accommodation for a disability.
• Defending major statewide wage and hour class actions.
• Strategic labor relations and planning.

Sage began his legal career as an extern for a Superior Court independent calendar judge, where he was exposed to a variety of wage and hour, discrimination, and retaliation disputes. Thereafter, Sage gained experience as a law clerk for the Professional Standards Division of one of the largest fire departments in the US. In that role, he conducted personnel and administrative investigations into allegations of workplace misconduct by government employees. Such investigations have included alleged harassment, discrimination, retaliation, hazing, fraud, waste, corruption, and abuse.

Sage relies on his well-honed leadership and interpersonal skills, which he developed as both an Army and civilian paramedic, to determine the best course of action—even when facing extraordinary circumstances.