Katz, Marc
Vartabedian Katz Hester Haynes | Partner
Marc is a leading authority on global employment practices and trends, has a sophisticated, broad-based national litigation practice, and has been repeatedly recognized by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 United States and other law-firm research guides as a top practitioner in his field. Marc has significant experience representing corporate clients in high-stakes trade-secret, employee-mobility, restrictive-covenant and unfair competition litigation, as well as fiduciary-duty and partnership disputes and collective and class-action litigation cases throughout the nation.
Throughout his 30-plus-year career, Marc has served as the lead trial lawyer in some of the most complex and high-dollar employment cases in a wide variety of jurisdictions and venues. His deep expertise in employment laws, practices and trends, coupled with his trial skills and experience, make him an unparalleled resource for corporate clients.
More specifically, Marc's practice involves complex litigation across numerous industries, including significant matters for sports franchises, entertainment organizations, financial institutions, hedge and private equity funds, health-care institutions, pharmaceutical and medical-device companies, managed-care entities, and retail and manufacturing operations. This litigation has involved commercial and contract disputes, employment-law issues, governmental investigation and regulatory issues, public- and private-company disputes, ERISA, trade-secret and other intellectual-property matters, fiduciary obligations, shareholder derivative litigation and high-net-worth-individual disputes.
For more than 15 years, at two leading global law firms, Marc led the labor and employment practices and served in numerous management positions.