Profilo
Marty Fojas focuses his practice on trade secrets and restrictive covenant litigation, employment counseling and litigation, and wage and hour litigation. He 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.
Marty regularly advises clients in the health care, hospitality, technology, financial services, and food and beverage industries on a wide range of matters, such as employment agreements, regulatory compliance, confidentiality and restrictive covenants, employee classification, leave laws, severance and terminations, and compensation. He has also been invited to speak on employment practices at industry conferences and training seminars in the hospitality, technology startup, finance, and entertainment industries.
Outside of work, Marty devotes time to public service in the legal community, mentoring current law students and high school students pursuing legal careers, and mentoring junior attorneys through the Inns of Court. He is an active member of the New Jersey Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section and serves as an editor on the bar association’s Labor and Employment Law Quarterly publication.
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.
Competenze
Esperienze Professionali - Attività Accademiche
- 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.
Riconoscimenti e Premi
- 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, Briefcase Convention, Minority Student Program, Rutgers University Law School, 2023-2024
- Speaker, Redlines from an Editor Legal Writing Workshop, Rutgers University Law School, 2023
- Mentor, New Jersey Law and Education Empowerment Project (NJLEEP), 2019-Present
- Speaker, Public Speaking Workshop, NJLEEP Summer Program, 2023-Present
- Mentor, Brooklyn Law School Alumni Mentor Program, 2019-Present
- Mentor, Justice Resource Center, 2009-2015
Formazione
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Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza, cum laude, Brooklyn Law School
- Articles Editor, Brooklyn Law Review
- Diploma di maturità, 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