About Miguel
For nearly three decades, the emphasis of Mr. Escalera’s practice has been labor and employment law and litigation. Initially, Mr. Escalera served with the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps for nine years where he engaged in extensive criminal and civil litigation. Mr. Escalera was last stationed at the Pentagon where he acted as lead counsel for the Army Litigation Division defending the Department of the Army in employment discrimination suits brought by civilian employees in many states. Since 1987 Mr. Escalera has been exclusively defending private and public sector employers in labor and employment matters. Mr. Escalera has defended numerous employment discrimination and wrongful termination suits in various state courts, federal district courts, and United States Courts of Appeal. Mr. Escalera has extensive experience in class-action litigation. He is a frequent lecturer on the Americans with Disabilities Act, sexual harassment, drug testing, wage and hour law, non-compete agreements, effective hiring and management of employees, and avoiding wrongful termination suits.
Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Labor and Employment, Hartford (2022)
- Recognized: Employment Law - Management
- Recognized: Labor Law - Management
- Recognized: Litigation - Labor and Employment
- Special Focus: Arbitration and Mediation
- Special Focus: Class Actions
- Special Focus: Covenants Not to Compete
- Special Focus: Defense
- Special Focus: Disability
- Special Focus: Labor
- Special Focus: Litigation
- Special Focus: Management
- Special Focus: State and Federal
- Special Focus: Title VII Litigation
- Special Focus: Wage-Hour Law
- Special Focus: Wrongful Discharge
- Mr. Escalera he has received a peer review rating of “BV Distinguished” from Martindale-Hubbell.
- Mr. Escalera has also been selected as a Connecticut and New England Super Lawyer®: Employment and Labor and Management Defense – Litigation in every year since 2007.
- In 1999, the Connecticut Bar Foundation selected Mr. Escalera to be named as a James W. Cooper Fellow in recognition of his legal work and service to the community.