Alexander T. MacDonald

amacdonald@littler.com
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Alexander T. MacDonald advises employers on all aspects of the employment and labor landscape, focusing on emerging legislation and regulation. He has extensive experience advising businesses on worker classification, arbitration, the administrative and regulatory process, and the future of work. He frequently writes, publishes, and speaks on these subjects. His work has been cited by scholars and appellate courts. He is a recognized voice for the management perspective.

Alexander is a co-chair of the Workplace Policy Institute (WPI) team. With WPI, he advises employers on legislative, administrative, and regulatory developments at the state and federal level. He advocates for employers in the regulatory and administrative process. He also helps employers protect their businesses by understanding and anticipating cutting-edge legal developments.  

Alexander also has extensive experience in traditional labor law. He represents management in all aspects of labor-management relations, including unfair labor practice charges, grievance arbitrations, representation elections, contract negotiations, and related litigation, including litigation in the U.S. courts of appeals.  

Before joining Littler, Alexander served as the director, future of work, for a major technology company. He also worked in a national labor and employment law firm and a major public-sector general counsel’s office. He was a law clerk to the senior judges in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

He is also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He served in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. In law school, he graduated first in his class.

Credentials & Recognition

Speaking Engagements

Litigation Update: Wilcox v. Trump

  • March 5, 2025
  • Federalist Society Webinar

What Loper Bright Means for Employment and Labor Law

  • January 9, 2025
  • American Law Institute CLE

Additional Thought Leadership

Contextual Textualism: How Legislative History Can Restrain Judges, Revitalize Congress, and Restore the Conservative Legal Movement

  • September 2023
  • University of La Verne Law Review

Is the Administrative State Inevitable? Loper, Chevron, and the “Abnegation” of Law

  • August 16, 2023
  • Federalist Society

The War on Independent Work: Why Some Regulators Want to Abolish Independent Contracting, Why they Keep Failing, and Why We Should Declare Peace

  • August 2023
  • Federalist Society Review

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