Attorney

Micheal L. Littlejohn Jr.

Micheal L. Littlejohn Jr. is the founder of Littlejohn Law, PLLC. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, he focuses his practice primarily on employment law and civil rights matters, assisting clients throughout the state. Mr. Littlejohn has been admitted to practice in North Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and North Carolina’s federal district courts including, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He obtained his legal education at the Charlotte School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctor, with pro bono honors, in 2015. Prior to law school, Mr. Littlejohn attended the University of Mary Washington, where he was a member of the men’s basketball team and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 2012.

A significant portion of Mr. Littlejohn’s practice consists of his representation of people who have been the victims of hiring or workplace discrimination and police misconduct. The cases that he has handled have been governed by such laws as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mr. Littlejohn’s employment law experience has also encompassed wrongful termination and other acts of prohibited retaliation, including the state’s Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act, and he has prepared and reviewed employment and severance agreements and has represented victims of workplace sexual harassment. He is also well-versed in disputes under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Mr. Littlejohn’s civil rights practice involves police brutality and other types of misconduct, fair housing discrimination act violations, and cases stemming from Title IX sex-based discrimination in education. The high quality of his work in all of these endeavors has earned him peer review awards in North Carolina Business Journal Legal Elite, Superlawyers, and Best Lawyers in America for Civil Rights.