Michael C. Towers

Background

Towers, Michael C. was born on February 27, 1943 in Wasco, California, United States.

Education

Rockhurst College (B.S.I.R., 1967). Boston College Law School (Juris Doctor, with honors, 1970).

Career

Worked at Fisher & Phillips. Admitted to the bar, 1970, Georgia. Articles Editor, Boston College Law Review.

Member: Atlanta, Middle Judicial Circuit (President, 1976-1977) and American (Member: Labor and Employment and Litigation Sections. Trial Practice Committee) Bar Associations. State Bar of Georgia.

Lawyers Club of Atlanta. American Trucking Association (Member, Human Resources Committee, 1984—). Fisher & Phillips, a national law firm founded in 1943, practices labor and employment law exclusively, representing management.

The firm offers preventive advice and litigation defense in such areas as airline and railway law, alternative dispute resolution, business immigration, collective bargaining and arbitration, reductions in force, compensation, disability, employment discrimination, leave statutes, labor/employee relations, mergers, acquisitions, and closings, non-compete and confidentiality agreements, OSHA, pensions and benefits, personnel policies, privacy/workplace monitoring, security, sexual harassment, training, wage-hour, whistleblower claims, and wrongful discharge litigation.

Achievements

• Bar: Georgia 1970.

Membership

Member: Atlanta, Middle Judicial Circuit (President, 1976-1977) and American (Member: Labor and Employment and Litigation Sections. Trial Practice Committee) Bar Associations. State Bar of Georgia.

Lawyers Club of Atlanta. American Trucking Association (Member, Human Resources Committee, 1984—).