Amir El-Aswad is a litigator in the firm’s Labor & Employment and Commercial Litigation practices who helps companies and executives navigate high-stakes business disputes. His practice focuses on matters arising out of the workplace and executive/employee separations, including restrictive covenant and trade secret disputes, discrimination and harassment, and other sensitive employment-related claims. He also represents clients in complex commercial disputes, with particular experience advising financial institutions and defending class and collective actions, including matters brought under the TCPA and FLSA.

Amir regularly serves as a lead associate on complex disputes, shaping strategy, managing day-to-day execution, and taking primary responsibility for drafting critical filings. His experience includes state and federal appeals, preliminary injunctions, dispositive motions, expansive and technical discovery, settlement strategy, and tailored dispute resolution agreements.

In addition to his litigation practice, Amir advises companies on practical employment issues before disputes arise, including drafting employee handbooks, employment agreements, and executive compensation arrangements. He brings particular experience working with clients in the manufacturing, education, financial, and healthcare industries.

Before joining Foley, Amir clerked for the Honorable David M. Lawson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and interned with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Michigan Court of Appeals. He was also a summer associate in Foley’s Chicago office and a student advocate in the University of Chicago Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic.

Amir’s practice is grounded not only in strong advocacy, sound judgment, and strategic thinking, but also in a commitment to service. He serves as Co-Director of the Federal Bar Association – Detroit Chapter’s Diversity Committee, is a member of the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Leadership Detroit Class 47, and maintains an active pro bono practice with the Detroit Bar Association’s Legal Services Clinic and Lakeshore Legal Aid.