L. Julius M. Turman

Partner

L. Julius M. Turman is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice. Mr. Turman's practice includes a broad range of labor and employment matters including single-plaintiff, class-action, and collective-action litigation (both discrimination claims and wage/hour); traditional labor; and litigation and counseling related to trade secret, unfair competition, covenants not to compete, and employment agreements throughout several jurisdictions across the country. His practice encompasses representing employers in a variety of industries including airline, transportation, manufacturing, shipping, maritime, construction, retail, education, transportation, sports and entertainment, and high technology.

As a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Turman has considerable trial skills and focuses those skills on representing employers before federal and state courts and administrative agencies. He has defended management through successfully trying to verdict jury and bench trials, prevailing at arbitration, and winning summary judgment and dismissals of employment discrimination claims, including race, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, and hostile environment harassment. He has also successfully represented companies in actions for wrongful termination, unfair competition, violation of public policy, and common law tort claims, as well as state and federal wage and hour litigation.

Mr. Turman began his practice nearly 20 years ago representing clients in all stages of federal court litigation under the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act, in administrative proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board and in labor arbitration. He has represented and advised clients in collective bargaining negotiations and administration, grievance procedures, union organizing campaigns, boycotts, and strikes, and on labor relation aspects of mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, plant closures, and relocations.

Mr. Turman counsels, writes about, and conducts training for employers on the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the California Business and Professions Code, and the Family and Medical Leave Act, as well as employee terminations, workplace violence, pre-employment screening, employment agreements, workplace investigations and discipline, restrictive covenants, trade secrets and unfair competition, and drug and alcohol testing.

Mr. Turman received his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law in 1992 and his B.G.S. from the University of Michigan in 1987. Following law school, Mr. Turman clerked for Judge John J. Hughes, U.S.M.J., in the District of New Jersey.

Mr. Turman is admitted to practice in California, New York, and New Jersey and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Ninth Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California; the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of New York; and the District of New Jersey.