Daily Journal Names Eric Akira Tate a Top Labor and Employment Lawyer for 2023
Daily Journal Names Eric Akira Tate a Top Labor and Employment Lawyer for 2023
Morrison Foerster’s San Francisco partner Eric Akira Tate has been named a 2023 Top Labor and Employment Lawyer by the Daily Journal. The recognition highlights leading California attorneys who specialize in wage-and-hour disputes, PAGA actions, employer defense, wrongful termination, and other labor and employment matters.
Eric, who co-chairs Morrison Foerster’s Global Employment and Labor Group, was recognized for his work on bet-the-company trade secrets and employee mobility disputes in California and around the country. Eric also represents boards of directors in #MeToo and other sensitive internal investigations and disputes with executives and companies in whistleblower, wrongful termination, discrimination and harassment, and other employment litigation. In addition, Eric counsels companies on employment law compliance and transactional matters, including enforceability of restrictive covenants and other personnel policies and procedures throughout the United States, employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and collective bargaining and traditional labor relations.
Eric is a leader in the American Bar Association (ABA) Labor and Employment Law (LEL) Committee and LEL’s Employment Rights and Responsibilities (ERR) Committee, and he currently serves as co-chair of the Covenants Not to Compete and Trade Secrets Subcommittee and on the Council for the Labor and Employment Section of the ABA. He previously served as a co-chair of the ABA LEL Annual Meeting Committee, the LEL Section Annual CLE Conference, and ERR’s Alternative Dispute Resolution, Employment At-Will and Collateral Torts, and Worker Dislocation Subcommittees.
Most recently, Eric was appointed to the Employment Authority Discrimination Editorial Advisory Board by Law360. In June 2021, Eric was elected as a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and named a Labor & Employment Star by Benchmark. He has also been recognized as a Labor & Employment Thought Leader (2021) by Who’s Who Legal and by the Daily Journal as Top Trade Secrets Lawyer in 2020, 2021, and 2022. Additionally, he has been recognized as one of the Daily Journal’s Top 20 Under 40 and Top Employment & Labor Lawyers in 2019.
Profiles of all of the winning lawyers are featured in a special Top Labor & Employment Lawyers issue of the Daily Journal published on August 2, 2023.
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