Alan Banov is an employment and labor lawyer who has been defending the rights of working people for over 30 years. Mr. Banov graduated with honors from the George Washington University National Law Center, then served for eight years as an attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, including five years with the Appellate Court Branch. In 1980 Mr. Banov started his own practice. He has represented thousands of employees in discrimination, civil service, overtime, adverse action, wrongful discharge, and breach of contract cases.

Mr. Banov was elected two terms as President of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association (MWELA), the local affiliate of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA). He has served on the Board of MWELA since its inception in 1985 and before his election as President, he served as Secretary and Vice President for MWELA. He was Co-chair of NELA's National Convention in Washington in 2000.

He is also a mediator for the Superior Court of D.C. and the Montgomery County Human Relations Commission. As a trial lawyer, Mr. Banov has represented thousands of working people in individual and in class action cases, in court and administrative proceedings.

Mr. Banov is persistent and is known for his no-nonsense approach to clients' cases.

• He steadily pressed a class-action case against the U.S. Bureau of Prisons for unpaid overtime until it settled after 13 years, with the Bureau agreeing to pay some 1,000 claimants $14,750,000 plus Mr. Banov's attorneys' fees and costs
• In another case, after considerable litigation, including a landmark decision by the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mr. Banov obtained a good settlement twelve years after he was hired.
• Mr. Banov has been a road runner for 16 years and has run three marathons. His motto is, "It's the long run that counts." Because of his tenacity in aggressively representing his clients, Robert Fitzpatrick (one of the best employment lawyers in the country) has called Mr. Banov a "bulldog."

Mr. Banov is a member of the following bars:

• D.C. Bar (1971)
• Maryland Bar (1980)
• U.S. District Courts for DC and Maryland
• U.S. Courts of Appeals for the following circuits: D.C., First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Federal Circuits
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims
• U.S. Supreme Court

Mr. Banov has frequently lectured and published in the areas of employment law, labor law, and litigation. In the last few years he has presented talks or moderated in the following venues:

• Panel member, Georgetown University Law Center’s “Litigating Employment Cases: Views from the Bench,” 2001, 2003
• Moderator of a panel of judges speaking on effective appellate advocacy at the 2000 NELA National Convention
• National Convention of NELA in New Orleans
• Annual Conference of the Washington (State) Employment Lawyers Association. Seattle
• Florida chapter of NELA

Mr. Banov is also a long-time active Democrat. A former chair of the District 18 Democratic Caucus in Montgomery County, in 2002 he was elected as an at-large member of the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee. In 2006 he was re-elected to the MCDCC and was elected Vice-Chair by his MCDCC colleagues.

You can contact him at abanov@banovlaw.com.