Profile
Martin C. Fojas focuses his practice on trade secrets and restrictive covenant litigation, employment counseling and litigation, and wage and hour litigation. He advises clients on a wide range of matters regarding employment agreements, regulatory compliance, confidentiality and restrictive covenant agreements, employee classification, leave laws, severance and terminations, and compensation. Martin also is an experienced commercial litigator who has tried numerous commercial and wage and hour cases in state and federal courts in New Jersey and New York.
Concentrations
- Trade secrets
- Restrictive covenant
- Privacy
- Unfair competition
- Confidentiality
- Non-disclosure agreements
The attorney is providing legal services through and affiliated with Greenberg Traurig, LLP, a New York Limited Liability Partnership. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Capabilities
Experience
- Negotiated resolution of state civil enforcement action on behalf of service provider in waste management industry.
- Secured settlement of multimillion-dollar restrictive covenant action brought against technology firm accused of raiding competitor employees.
- Mediated numerous single-plaintiff harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and whistleblower claims against employers.
- Won dismissal of claims on appeal of employment discrimination claims brought by terminated delivery driver.
- Successfully defended appeal by minority shareholder ousted from management upon discovery of rampant self-dealing theft of company property.
- Obtained dismissal of tortious interference claims against beverage company accused of raiding competitor employees.°
- Negotiated settlement after trial of collective action brought by car wash employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.°
- Defended not-for-profit entity in SLAPP suit seeking to quash peaceful protest.°
- Handled appeal of employment discrimination action under USERRA before the Federal Circuit.°
- Settled at arbitration claims brought by sanitation workers and truck drivers for unpaid overtime compensation.°
- Argued federal appeal of breach of contract and ERISA claims before the Second Circuit.°
- Negotiated settlement on behalf of title insurance company of multimillion-dollar title insurance claim.°
- Handled all aspects of SEC investigation against technology company and its chairman.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Fojas prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, Super Lawyers Magazine, New Jersey Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars,” 2020-2022
- Listed, Super Lawyers Magazine, New York Metro Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars,” 2017-2022
- Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Intellectual Property - Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters), 2021
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- Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court, 2019-Present
- Editor, New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly, New Jersey State Bar Association, 2022 - Present
- Speaker, Redlines from an Editor Legal Writing Workshop, Rutgers University Law School, 2023
- Mentor, New Jersey Law and Education Empowerment Project (NJLEEP), 2020-Present
- Mentor, Brooklyn Law School Alumni Mentor Program, 2019-Present
- Mentor, Justice Resource Center, 2009-2015
Credentials
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J.D., cum laude, Brooklyn Law School
- Articles Editor, Brooklyn Law Review
- B.A., Cornell University
- Deputy Clerk, Hon. Shirley Wohl Kram, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2007-2009
- New Jersey
- New York