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Labor and Employment Participate in all aspects of advice and counsel to clients, including advice on compliance with federal and state anti-discrimination statutes and wage/hour issues. Draft employee handbooks and policies. Investigate and draft position statements in response to charges of discrimination and appear before agencies in connection with same. Involved in all aspects of litigation, including taking and defending depositions. Negotiate separation agreements and releases. Represent management in grievance hearings and arbitrations. Researched and drafted memoranda of law in support of motions to dismiss and for summary judgment under federal and state employment laws. Participated in many aspects of employment litigation including drafting pleadings, discovery and trial preparation. Conducted factual investigations and drafted position statements to the EEOC, New York State Division of Human Rights and New York City Commission on Human Rights. Areas of direct experience included Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans With Disabilities Act, motions to compel arbitration and formulation of corporate employment policies. Associated with nation's largest labor and employment law firm; specializing exclusively in labor and employment law matters litigated on behalf of management, including sexual harassment, racial, disability, gender and age discrimination, wrongful discharge, breach of contract and restrictive covenant matters. Extensive client contact; drafting of pleadings, briefs and position statements; deposition experience; court appearances and trial preparation. Drafting of employment handbooks and policies for corporate clients. Counseling corporate clients on a wide range of human resources issues. Counsel corporate clients in all areas of employment law. Draft or revise employee handbooks, employment applications and employer e-mail/internet use and other policies. Advise and assist corporate clients in conducting reductions-in-force. Investigate complaints of harassment and discrimination and draft position statements for submission to the New York City Commission on Human Rights, the New York State Division of Human Rights and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Prepare materials for and assist in conducting sexual harassment and general employment law training seminars for various corporate clients. Drafted articles and outlines analyzing the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act, and addressing matters including sexual harassment, effective pretrial defense strategy and conducting effective internal investigations. Participate in all aspects of employment litigation in a wide variety of areas including age, race, sex and disability discrimination and/or harassment, and retaliation. Provided advice and counsel on labor and employment law including: labor law and pension plan successor liability in asset sale transactions, fair employment and unfair labor practices, minimum wage and overtime, plant closings, drug testing, polygraphs, ADA (including accessibility requirements for buildings), director and officer liability and indemnity issues; designed HR policies, exit incentive and OSHA safety programs; prepared memoranda of law, pleadings, motions, affidavits, stipulations and settlement agreements; deposed parties and defended depositions. Representation of employers in labor and employment-related litigation in federal and state courts throughout the United States and in arbitrations. Counseling of employers on a wide variety of labor and employment law matters, including compliance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations and advice concerning reductions in force, plant relocations and closings, employment issues associated with mergers and acquisitions, employee benefits issues, union organizing activity, executive terminations, and union picketing and strikes. Drafting of briefs and memoranda of law for litigations in state and federal courts and in arbitrations. Representation of employers before various administrative agencies, including the NLRB, the EEOC, and the New York State Division of Human Rights. Negotiation and drafting of collective bargaining agreements, executive compensation agreements, separation agreements and settlement and release agreements. Representation of employers in NLRB and Railway Labor Act union representation election campaigns. Handled reductions in force of hundreds of employees for various companies. Conducted supervisor training programs on various labor and employment law issues. Presentation to approximately fifty in-house counsel and human resources professionals concerning effective sexual harassment investigations by employers. Contributing author to New York Employment Law letter (monthly publication reporting on labor and employment law developments affecting New York State employers), M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC. - Employment defense litigation associate representing technology, life sciences, venture capital, and entrepreneurial clients along with established multi-national corporations in all aspects of employment law with particular emphasis on covenants not to compete, trade secrets, start-up practice, and executive contracts and severance negotiations. - Full pre-trial litigation experience in federal and state practice including numerous court appearances on dispositive and discovery motions, depositions, full charge of cases with only minimal supervision, settlement authority, day-to-day decision-making and case strategy projection. - Independently developed discrimination and harassment seminar for use by the employment law department for firm clients. Presented seminar to numerous clients for both senior management and employees. - Sole employment counseling contact for approximately 25 firm clients ranging from small start-up companies to large corporations. Independently oversee reductions in force, sexual harassment investigations, terminations, and due diligence. Independently counsel and negotiate on behalf of firm clients in terminations of employees, managers and senior executives. |
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