Howard M. Radzely

Partner

Howard M. Radzely is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice. Mr. Radzely's practice focuses on labor-related legislative, regulatory, and administrative issues at the local, state, and federal level. He has handled wage and hour (FLSA, FMLA, Davis Bacon and Service Contract Act), USERRA, occupational safety and health (OSHA), mine safety and health (MSHA), OFCCP/EEO, whistleblower, employee benefits and pension, labor management/union disclosure and elections (OLMS), immigration, and congressional investigations and oversight matters. Mr. Radzely also focuses on general appellate litigation.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Radzely served in several positions in government. Most recently, he served as the Deputy Secretary of Labor with responsibility for all policies that emanated from the Department of Labor (DOL) as well as relations with Capitol Hill. Prior to that, as Solicitor of Labor, Mr. Radzely oversaw all of the agency's legal activities and was personally involved in major enforcement actions and significant litigation. He also served as the DOL's Deputy Solicitor for National Operations. From the time he joined the DOL in June 2001 until the end of the Bush administration, he was personally involved in all of the agency's significant regulatory reforms and other major activities. During his tenure at the DOL, Mr. Radzely worked on key matters involving whistleblower claims, employee benefits and pension matters, labor management relations, wage and hour laws (including opinion letters and oversight of the development and approval of new regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act), OFCCP, and employee safety. Mr. Radzely also served on the board of directors for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and was a member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China.

Prior to his service at the DOL, Mr. Radzely worked in private practice and maintained an active litigation, appellate, and counseling practice, focusing primarily on labor and employment law. Prior to that, he clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Mr. Radzely received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1995, where he served on the Harvard Law Review. He received his B.S., summa cum laude, in economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business in 1992.

Mr. Radzely is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.