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Michael Caldwell has accumulated close to a half-century of legal expertise in Employment and Labor Law. He is admitted to the Bars of Georgia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, and to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, numerous federal appellate courts, and all of the state courts in Georgia. A 1968 honors graduate of Catholic University in Washington, D.C., he attended Catholic University’s Law School where he was a Law Review Editor and Legal Services Office Student Director. After receiving his J.D. in 1971, Michael began his career in the General Counsel’s Office of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and later served as a Trial Attorney in the NLRB’s Baltimore Regional Office. He entered private law practice with a nationally prominent Labor and Employment Law firm in Washington D.C. before relocating to Atlanta in 1977.
He is former Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia and Editor of its Labor Law Newsletter. His clients include manufacturing and healthcare companies, municipalities and public employers, individual public officials, executives, managers, and private and public employees. He is an expert in cases arising under the Equal Employment Opportunity Laws, Fair Labor Standards Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Occupational Safety and Health Act. As an arbitrator and trained mediator, Michael serves as a Personnel Hearing Officer for numerous cities and agencies and is recognized for his skill in drafting and interpreting individual employment contracts, severance agreements, and covenants not to compete.
Michael was General Counsel for the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police, the FBI Academy National Associates, (Georgia Chapter), and Parliamentarian for the International Association of Chiefs of Police for many years. He is an adjunct professor of Human Resources Management and Law at the Law Enforcement Command College of Columbus State University and has served as an adjunct instructor in Human Resources Law and Ethics at the Beebe Personnel Institute of Georgia State University’s Graduate College of Business.
Michael A. Caldwell co-founded and is Past President of the Saint Thomas More Society of Atlanta. He has held an AV (the highest level) peer rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory for over 20 years and has been named a Georgia SuperLawyer for over ten years.
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State: Georgia
Acquired: 1979
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State: District of Columbia
Acquired: 1979
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State: Maryland
Acquired: 1972
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101 Marietta Street NW, Suite 2650, Atlanta, GA, 30303
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Posted by Louis | April 30, 2021 | Hired Attorney
Mr. Caldwell has served as my personal attorney (25 years), legal advisor for the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police (28 years), and as Parliamentarian for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) during my term as IACP President. In each of those roles his legal counsel, perfo...
Posted by Barbara | October 22, 2020 | Hired Attorney
Communication was terrible I was inspired by his awards and degrees. Left several VM and emails begging for call backs for him and his paralegal which she finally emailed me back she herself NEVER knew what was actually going on he waited almost two years to communicate the findings of my case after ...
"Michael is extremely knowledgeable and very experienced with employment litigation. Most importantly, Michael is extremely professional and approaches the practice of law the way every lawyer should, as a gentleman serving his clients via a noble profession."
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AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
1900 - Present
Partner, DeLong, Caldwell, Bridgers, Fitzpatrick & Benjamin LLC
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1995 - 1996
State Bar of Georgia, Labor and Employment SectionMember
1971
JD - Juris Doctor
1968
BA - Bachelor of Arts
1980
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