Lincoln O. Bisbee

Partner

Lincoln O. Bisbee represents employers in a broad array of complex employment cases throughout the United States. Among other matters, Lincoln defends employers in class actions and individual-plaintiff cases involving wage and hour, discrimination, and employment tort claims. He also has experience litigating whistleblower claims under a variety of statutes both in court and before the US Department of Labor. In addition to representing clients in all phases of litigation at the trial court and appellate levels, Lincoln frequently advises clients on highly sensitive employment matters, litigation avoidance, and crisis management. He is admitted in the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and Virginia only, and his practice is supervised by NY Bar members.

Extended Profile

A seasoned litigator with both first and second chair experience, Lincoln routinely handles a wide range of employment matters, including cases under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, the False Claims Act (FCA), the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR21), the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (NDAA), the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (ERA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Equal Pay Act (EPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the Railway Labor Act (RLA), and various state employment laws.

Beyond actively litigating cases and advising clients on litigation-related strategy, Lincoln represents clients before federal and state employment agencies and counsels clients on employment law matters such as wage and hour compliance, responding to whistleblowers, and employee hiring, discipline, and termination. He also conducts workplace investigations of whistleblower allegations, discrimination and harassment claims, and code of conduct violations.

Earlier in his career, Lincoln clerked for Judge Benson Everett Legg, the then Chief Judge of the US District Court for the District of Maryland.