Alexander T. MacDonald
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Professional & Community Affiliations
Lifetime Member
Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers
Member, Labor & Employment Executive Committee
Federalist Society
Recognition
Recipient, Young Lawyers Conference Significant Service Award
Virginia State Bar
2016-2017
News, Analysis & Press
An Accidental Outcome? Alex MacDonald returns to discuss how the NLRA’s success has resulted in fewer unions & what might happen under a new administration in DC
Labor Union News
October 15, 2024
Predistribution, Labor Standards, and Ideological Drift: Why Some Conservatives Are Embracing Labor Unions (and Why They Shouldn't)
The Federalist Society
September 23, 2024
Littler's Workplace Policy Institute Releases 2024 Labor Day Report
September 3, 2024
The Accidental Success of the NLRA: How a Law about Unions Achieved Its Goals by Giving Us Fewer Unions
The Federalist Society
August 28, 2024
Alex MacDonald Explains How Unions' Right to "Exclusive Representation" May Be Unconstitutional
Labor Union News (Podcast)
August 28, 2024
Leading Business Coalition Urges Supreme Court Review in Key Case on Government-Forced Union Representation
August 22, 2024
A Regression to Politics? Recent Court Decisions Could Give Partisanship Even More Influence at the NLRB
Washington Legal Foundation
August 16, 2024
Labor Relations Radio E138 – Attorney Alex MacDonald On The Constitutionality Of 'Exclusive Representation'
Labor Union News
July 18, 2024
Regulatory Compliance in a Post-Chevron World: Fasten Your Seatbelts
Corporate Compliance Insights
July 16, 2024
Union membership is now political. So can the government still require people to associate with a union?
The Federalist Society
July 8, 2024
How the Supreme Court’s blockbuster ‘Chevron’ ruling puts countless regulations in jeopardy
CNN
July 3, 2024
High Court's SEC Decision Has Limited NLRB Impact, For Now
Law360 Employment Authority
June 28, 2024
U.S. Supreme Court Rolls Back “Deference” to Federal Agencies and Opens Up More Challenges to Regulations
ASAP
June 28, 2024
Political Unions, Free Speech, And The Death of Voluntarism: Why Exclusive Representation Violates The First Amendment
Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy
June 24, 2024
Minimum Salaries and the Evolving Workforce: Why the DOL’s New Automatic Salary Updates Clash With Legal Precedent and Economic Facts
The Federalist Society
June 7, 2024
Noncompetes, Overtime, and the Status Quo: How Agency Rulemaking Distorts Federal Policy and Why Only Courts Can Fix It
The Federalist Society
April 30, 2024
Department of Labor Publishes Final Rule to Update the Salary Level for Overtime Eligibility
ASAP
April 23, 2024
Whither Expertise? The Decline and Fall of Nonpartisan Policy at the National Labor Relations Board
The Federalist Society
April 22, 2024
Fast Food, Minimum Wages, and the Pervasive Myth of Benevolent Unions: Why the Labor Movement Pushes for Stricter Labor Laws
The Federalist Society
April 9, 2024
Labor Relations, Professional Perspective - “Après Moi, le Deluge”: Big Changes for Labor and Employment Law after Chevron
Bloomberg Law
March 19, 2024
Federal Court Vacates NLRB Joint Employer Rule, Restores 2020 “Substantial Direct and Immediate Control” Standard
Insight
March 10, 2024
Originalism, Social Contract, and Labor Rights: What the Reawakening of Natural Law Means for Exclusive Union Representation
North Dakota Law Review
February 13, 2024
What To Expect As 5th Circ. Mulls Broader NLRB Remedies
Law360 Employment Authority
February 5, 2024
Labor Department’s new independent contractor rule is a mess. We need a clear national standard instead.
The Hill
February 2, 2024
Republicans Say DOL's Contractor Rule Is Like AB 5. Is It?
Law360 Employment Authority
January 31, 2024
Sectoral Bargaining for Rideshare Drivers in Massachusetts: Legally Dubious, Economically Disastrous
The Federalist Society
January 10, 2024
Recent Hollywood, Casino Labor Deals Show Unions' AI Focus
Law360 Employment Authority
November 29, 2023
NLRB General Counsel Offers Some Clarity on Responding to Union Organizing Demands for Bargaining
Insight
November 13, 2023
Is the NLRB Unconstitutional? The Courts May Finally Decide
The Federalist Society
November 10, 2023
Collective Constitutionalism: Common-Good Theory and Community Rights at the Intersection of Labor Law and the First Amendment
Capital University Law Review
October 24, 2023
Administrative Law Shifts May Bring Uncertainty To NLRB
Law360 Employment Authority
October 13, 2023
The Labor Law Enigma: Article III, Judicial Power, and the National Labor Relations Board
The Federalist Society
October 11, 2023
What a Government Shutdown Means for Employers: Many Agencies Will Sharply Curtail Operations, Delaying New and Pending Cases
ASAP
September 29, 2023
Future of Work Leader and Experienced Labor Lawyer Joins Littler in Washington, D.C.
September 25, 2023
Contextual Textualism: How Legislative History Can Restrain Judges, Revitalize Congress, and Restore the Conservative Legal Movement
University of La Verne Law Review
September 2023
Is the Administrative State Inevitable? Loper, Chevron, and the “Abnegation” of Law
Federalist Society
August 16, 2023
The War on Independent Work: Why Some Regulators Want to Abolish Independent Contracting, Why they Keep Failing, and Why We Should Declare Peace
Federalist Society Review
August 2023
Is Glacier Northwest the Tip of the Iceberg?
Federalist Society
June 6, 2023
Double Dribble: The NLRB’s General Counsel Revives a Debunked Legal Theory to Expand Labor Law into College Athletics
Federalist Society
June 1, 2023
A Bug in the Logic: Regulators Try to Solve the “AI Problem” Before Finding any Problem to Solve
Federalist Society
April 17, 2023
The FTC’s Indefensible Position on Collective Bargaining
Federalist Society
April 7, 2023
The Department of Labor’s Independent Contractor Rule: A Quiet Threat to Federalism?
Federalist Society
March 30, 2023
Are Agency Fees Unconstitutional in the Private Sector?
Federalist Society
February 24, 2023
The FTC’s Ahistorical Attack on Noncompetes
Federalist Society
January 24, 2023
Secondary Picketing, Trade Restraints, and the First Amendment: A Historical and Practical Case for Legal Stability
Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal
January 2023
Railways, Unions, and Policy Dissonance
Federalist Society
December 6, 2022
Wave of COVID-19 Litigation Already Rising, Threatening Employers as They Return to Work
ASAP
May 7, 2020
SBA Releases New Guidance on Paycheck Protection Program Certifications, Announces Safe Harbor for Borrowers that Repay Their Loans
ASAP
April 30, 2020
DOL Clarifies That Gig Workers Can Qualify for COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits When Their Work Dries Up
ASAP
April 21, 2020
CARES Act Offers New Incentives to Employers Considering Student-Loan Repayment Programs
ASAP
April 16, 2020
SBA Clarifies that to Qualify for Loan Forgiveness, Employers Must Spend Three-Quarters of Paycheck Protection Loans on Payroll Costs
ASAP
April 3, 2020
Half-Baked Benefits: New Jersey Repeats the Mistakes of the Past in Its New Portable-Benefit Law for Gig Workers
Federalist Society
March 2, 2020
D.C. Circuit Rejects NLRB’s Attempt to Certify Union Vote by University Adjunct Faculty
ASAP
January 31, 2020
Ready, Fire, Aim: How State Regulators Are Threatening the Gig Economy and Millions of Workers and Consumers
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
January 9, 2020
How Might Virginia’s New Legislative Trifecta Affect Employers in the Commonwealth in 2020?
Insight
January 6, 2020
AB 5: The Great California Employment Experiment—A Littler Workplace Policy Institute Report
WPI Report
August 8, 2019
Speaking Engagements
How 2024 Could Transform Labor and Employment Law: From The Supreme Court’s 2024 Term to the Election
World at Work Total Rewards Summit Series: Arlington
October 9, 2024
Conservative Populism and the Future of the Right’s Relationship with Organized Labor
The Federalist Society
September 23, 2024
Litigation After Loper: Effects on Agency Practice
Bloomberg Webinar
August 15, 2024
The DOL’s Final Overtime Rule
June 10, 2024
How To Navigate DOL's Latest Independent Contractor & Davis-Bacon Laws
National Association of Home Builders
May 15, 2024
Special Sessions: What Does the Biden Administration's "Whole-of-Government" Approach Mena for Employers and Workers?
Littler Executive Employer Conference, Phoenix, AZ
May 9, 2024
Joint Employer: Are Franchise Companies in the Clear?
International Franchise Association (IFA)
April 23, 2024
Natural Law & Labor Law
James Wilson Institute Webinar
April 9, 2024
What Would Overruling Chevron Mean for Labor and Employment Law?
February 20, 2024
U.S. Department of Labor Finalizes Independent Contractor Regulation
Federal Bar Association CLE
February 12, 2024
Labor After Loper
The Federalist Society
February 2, 2024
The Future of Unionization: What Employers Need to Know
International Food Distributors Association
October 26, 2023
Biden’s Big Labor is Bad for Business
Heritage Foundation
October 13, 2023
Whole of Government White Paper
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC
October 13, 2023
Contract Labor in the Hospitality and Service Industries
American Hotel and Lodging Association, Washington, DC
October 11, 2023
The FTC’s Noncompete Rule: From Henry IV to the “Major Questions Doctrine”
Federalist Society Atlanta Chapter
March 28, 2023
Courthouse Steps: Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Federalist Society Practice Groups Virtual Event
January 10, 2023
Panel Discussion of AB 5
Federalist Society San Diego Lawyers Chapter
June 25, 2020
State Regulators and the Gig Economy
Regulatory Transparency Project Podcast
June 25, 2020
Navigating the CARES Act: Common Questions and Key Takeaways for Small Businesses
Client Webinar
April 2, 2020
Hot Topic Roundup
2019 Mid-Atlantic Employer Conference, Bethesda, MD
June 7, 2019
Common Employer Questions: Paycheck Protection Program and Emergency Disaster Injury Loans
Client Webinar
April 23, 2019
Education
- J.D., William & Mary Law School, 2012summa cum laude
- B.A., Old Dominion University, 2009
Languages
- Spanish
- Latin
Courts
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas