Michael L. Foreman

Michael L. Foreman is the Deputy Director of Legal Programs for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law where he is responsible for supervising all of the Committee’s litigation in the employment discrimination, housing, education, voting rights and environmental justice areas. He also continues to act as the Director of the Employment Discrimination Project where he is responsible for directing the Committee’s employment discrimination litigation. He has handled civil rights matters through all phases of their processing from the administrative filing, at trial and through appeal and has served as counsel of record for the Lawyers' Committee in several cases before the United States Supreme Court.

He is a frequent speaker on civil rights topics and is also the Lawyers’ Committee representative on the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights Employment Discrimination Task Force. Some of his most recent work in the non litigation area can be seen in Hire the Rainbow, Legal Times, April 19, 2004 in rebuttal to an article written by the General Counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity entitled No Whites Need Apply, and in an upcoming article The Continuing Relevance of Race Conscious Remedies and Programs in Integrating the Nation’s Workforce to be published in the fall edition of the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal.

Immediately prior to joining the Lawyers’ Committee, Michael was the Acting Deputy General Counsel for the United States Commission on Civil Rights. While at the Commission he was responsible for supervising all employment related litigation and was a Project Team Leader for the Commission’s reports Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election and Sharing the Dream: Is the ADA Accommodating All? Prior to joining the Commission he was a Clinical Supervisor in the Southern Methodist University’s Civil Clinic, where he focused on civil rights litigation and was a partner in the Baltimore law firm Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg, Engelman & Belgrad, where he headed its employment law group. From May 1988 to June 1992, he was the General Counsel for the Maryland Commission on Human Relations. He has dedicated the bulk of his professional career to eradicating discrimination in the work place.

In addition to the above work, Michael has litigated employment cases for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. Michael has received the Jesse S. Heiges Distinguished Alumnus Award from Shippensburg University and has been awarded the Carnegie Medal for Outstanding Heroism.

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