EMPLOYMENT LAW

EMPLOYMENT DISPUTES AND NEGOTIATIONS

Few relationships in life are as time-consuming, fraught with emotion, and consequential, as that between the employer and its employees.  And few involve so many legal issues. 

I represent employers and employees in all types of employment-related matters, such as:

  • Compensation/bonus disputes;

  • Actions for discrimination and retaliation;

  • Actions involving claims of hostile work environment and harassment;

  • Enforcement of non-compete/non-solicitation clauses;

  • Litigation for failure to pay overtime, improper wage deductions, and other violations of federal and state labor laws;

  • Negotiation and drafting of employment, severance, bonus, and other agreements;

  • Counseling of companies and individuals on various matters of employment law, including employee termination.

My experience as an employment lawyer includes:

  • Successfully litigating on behalf of an employee of a major financial services firm who was a victim of a hostile work environment;

  • Obtaining favorable settlement on behalf of a class of financial advisors of a major financial institution deprived of proper compensation;

  • Negotiating settlement for salespeople of credit card processor whose wages were improperly deducted in violation of the labor laws;

  • Litigating in federal court on behalf of hospitality industry employee whose employer failed to pay all wages earned;

  • Representing a Wall Street professional who was deprived of a substantial bonus in arbitration;

  • Advising a UK-based technology startup on various contractual matters.

BUSINESS LITIGATION

COMMERCIAL DISPUTES, NEGOTIATIONS, AND COUNSELING 

Having worked at two of New York’s best commercial litigation firms and having prosecuted corruption in New Jersey, I am experienced in commercial litigation and negotiation.

I have successfully litigated a wide variety of business disputes, having represented and counseled investors, Wall Street professionals, manufacturers, and other entrepreneurs in New York state and federal courts, and in arbitrations before AAA, FINRA, and JAMS tribunals.

Some highlights of my work include:

  • Winning two federal jury trial verdicts of over $20 million on behalf of an education industry client in two federal jury trials;

  • Representing investors in arbitration and litigation in connection with a failed multi-million dollar investment in a hedge fund;

  • Counseling an international technology startup on a variety of contractual matters;

  • Successfully prosecuting a New Jersey political figure who stole nearly $1.9 million from ordinary citizens;

  • Representing a private equity firm in a World Bank investigation of alleged anti-bribery regulations, securing avoidance of all charges;

  • Obtaining exoneration of securities industry professional accused of fraud by the SEC in a federal jury trial spanning nearly two months.Debt reduction and management.