Labor and Employment Department; Employment Litigation and Counseling Practice Group.

Cliff Fonstein is a partner in the Labor & Employment Department and a member of Seyfarth Shaw’s national Whistleblower Team, as well as its Financial Services Employment Practice Team. He has litigated all types of employment cases for Fortune 500 companies, from single-plaintiff whistleblower and discrimination claims to large class actions. In the past few years, he has provided advice to financial services, manufacturing and media companies, pertaining to training, terminations, compensation and other employment-related issues and has represented these clients in state and federal court and before FINRA arbitration panels.

JD, University of California at Los Angeles School of Law (1983); BA, University of California at Berkeley (1979).