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Mitchell Benjamin is a companion at DeLong, Caldwell, Bridgers, Fitzpatrick, & Benjamin, LLC with 21 years of revel in. Mitchell was born and raised in New York City and started his exercise in NYC after attending college and regulation college there. Mitchell focuses normally on the exercise regions of wage and hour regulation and industrial litigation He has represented more than a thousand personnel in a lot of employment-related disputes involving retaliation, unpaid extra time, minimum wages, sexual harassment and discrimination claims based on race, age, gender, national foundation and disability in both the country and federal courts. He is dedicated to the unique pursuits of every person, business and union that involves him for assist. Mitchell applies his mediation capabilities to resolve claims by means of settlement and settlement while viable. However, he is prepared to aggressively litigate cases in courtroom while essential to achieve justice. Mitchell regularly represents public protection officers — which include police, firefighters, emergency clinical technicians and paramedics — in time beyond regulation instances delivered under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), in addition to handling their grievances, appeals and civil carrier hearings. He additionally represents firefighter unions inside the Georgia counties of, Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb and Coweta. In 2008, Mitchell represented more than 600 City of Atlanta police officers in an extra time lawsuit, resulting in a $7,500,000 settlement. In 2013, Mitchell and Matthew Billips received a $2.6 million jury verdict in a unmarried worker race discrimination case. Because of his significant understanding of hard work legal guidelines, several proactive organizations and public entities have retained Mitchell’s services to review their overtime and salary rules for compliance issues and to advise vital changes. Mitchell has seemed as a guest on The Layman’s Lawyer on PBS. › ›
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Graduation year: 1990
Graduation year: 1985
