Mr. Wheeler was formerly the Chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Employment and Labor Group and is a Charter Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. His practice involves all aspects of labor and employment law, including litigation before the federal and state courts and before administrative agencies such as the NLRB and the EEOC. Mr. Wheeler has handled numerous employment discrimination and wage/hour class actions for major corporations, and has represented companies in hundreds of arbitrations, injunctive actions, wrongful discharge suits, trade secrets and employee raiding litigation, and administrative proceedings. He has had extensive experience in representing major corporations in collective bargaining, union organizing and decertification efforts, and labor arbitrations. Mr. Wheeler also engages in a substantial amount of ongoing counseling concerning all aspects of employment law.

He is named among the “Best Lawyers in America” in the publication of Naifeh and Smith, was the subject of one chapter in a recent book entitled The Leading Labor Lawyers, has been acknowledged by Chambers and Who’s Who Legal, and received recognition as one of the “Top Bay Area Employment Lawyers” by The Recorder in 2004.

Mr. Wheeler associated with Morrison & Foerster in 1971, became a partner of the firm in 1976.