Charlie Herf is a retired partner with Quarles & Brady. His practice experience included labor and employment, securities and complex commercial litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and education law. Mr. Herf represented clients in the following areas:

• Representation of employers in wrongful discharge, discrimination and employment related litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts.
  
  


• Management representation in organizing campaigns, unfair labor practice charges, wage and hour disputes and in arbitrations and mediations.


• Advising public employers on constitutional matters, personnel issues, student rights, conflict of interest, open meeting law and public records issues.


• Securities litigation and arbitration including private and public ADR to minimize expense and obtain expedited results.


• Successful constitutional challenge to unauthorized municipal ordinance imposing development fees resulting in multi-million dollar refund to homebuilders.


• CEO and executive severance agreements as litigation and discrimination avoidance strategy.


• Successful defense of federal whistleblower wrongful discharge litigation for international manufacturer - obtaining $48,000 award of attorneys' fees on behalf of employer.


• Enforcement and defense of non-compete, non-solicitation (employee and customer), trade secret and other IP rights of employers in State and Federal Courts.