Thomas Meiklejohn

Tom has represented individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, including corporate officers, professional employees and government officials as well as drivers, factory workers and mechanics. He advises employees with ongoing employment disputes and negotiates severance agreements. He has litigated cases involving age, race, national origin, sex discrimination, the Americans With Disabilities Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, whistleblower protection, First Amendment rights and other civil rights issues, and employment contract issues. He has won six figure jury verdicts and settlements in employment and retaliatory discharge cases. Tom has extensive experience representing and advising unions with respect to administrative proceedings, arbitrations, contract negotiations and administration, and court litigation. In recent years, he has worked with unions in a variety of settings in organizing campaigns. Over the past 20 years, his clients have successfully organized more than ten thousand workers into the labor movement. Early in his career, Tom handled difficult and extensive litigation arising out of plant sales and closings, including an NLRB case against Allied Signal that generated more than $18 million for employees who lost their jobs due to a plant closing. Twenty years later, the Company, now Honeywell, attempted to renege on a promise made to provide lifetime medical benefits for employees who retired while the plant was open. Thanks to the strong language negotiated by the UAW back when the plant was still open and litigation support from the Union, we worked with pension litigation specialist Bill Wertheimer to win a court order guaranteeing lifetime medical benefits for retirees and their spouses, as well as an additional $100,000 is compensation for retirees whose benefits had been briefly withheld. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Thomas Meiklejohn included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Super Lawyer, 2007-2020 Hartford Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers, Employment Law - 2017 Other Sources of Feedback About Thomas Meiklejohn Included on the 2024Connecticut Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2023 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2022 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2021 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2020 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2019 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2018 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2017 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2016 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2015 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2014 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2013 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2012 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2011 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2010 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2009 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2008 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2007 Connecticut Super Lawyers list

• Partner

• National Labor Relations Board, Supervising Attorney, 1988 to 1989
• National Labor Relations Board, Field Attorney
• Adjunct Professor, Labor Law, Western New England Law School, 1989 to 1990
• Representative Clients
• United Auto Workers
• United Steelworkers of America
• American Federation of Musicians Local 400 Graduate Workers of Columbia University

• Fairprene Indus. Products v. N.L.R.B.
• Citation: 880 F.2d 1318
• Court: C.A.2
• Year: 1989
• Serial Number: 1989112060

• Connecticut, 1981
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1991
• U.S. District Court District of Connecticut, 1991
• District of Columbia Court of Appeals
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
• United States Supreme Court