About the Practice

The Fontaine Law Office is an aggressive firm for employees exclusively. It is known for its cutting edge courtroom practice of employment law, especially wage payment issues, severance pay, and other issues involving employee rights and compensation. It aggressively asserts class actions for employees in cases where other law firms decline the case or seek to help only the individual. Its strength in understanding and applying the complex law in this area is of the highest caliber, both within Maine and nationally.

The firm has handled numerous cases involving whistleblowers, retirement disputes, minimum wage, work injuries, grievances, and labor union rights.

Class actions
The firm is highly experienced in class actions. It has filed many aggressive innovative class actions in both state and federal court, securing many huge financial recoveries. Donald Fontaine has been recognized for remarkable success in this area. The office has handled most of the wage class actions that have occurred in the State of Maine.

Clients represented
Donald Fontaine has represented dozens of local education associations on behalf of teachers, bus drivers, educational technicians, janitors, school secretaries, and all kinds of school employees. He has also represented the Maine Education Association, the United Paperworkers International Union, the Amalgamated Transit Union, U.N.I.T.E., the AFL-CIO, and all of the employees of the DeCoster Egg Farm.

National Practice
Fontaine Law Office is consulted and recognized nationally. The office advises attorneys and clients in different parts of the United States. In recent years it has represented dozens of Texas residents making overtime claims. Attorney Fontaine has been chosen as the lead speaker on Wage and Hour Law at national conventions of the Higher Education sections of the American Federation of Teachers in 2006 and the National Education Association in 2007.

The Lawyer for Lawyers
Many of our cases are sent to us from other lawyers. That is because we are recognized by the bar as the leading employment law firm with unique knowledge and experience in handling wage disputes.