Our employment law practice is one of the premier employment law practices, and our employment lawyers are well known for their outstanding reputations and accomplishments in all aspects of employment law. Our employment law clients include domestic and foreign institutions of varying sizes, including commercial banks, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds and emerging business enterprises, as well as individuals throughout the United States ranging from highly compensated traders and institutional sales professionals, investment bankers and hedge fund professionals to employees in a variety of fields.

On behalf of our institutional and individual clients, we provide a broad range of high quality employment law services. Our employment law services include counsel on employee relations matters such as discrimination claims to compensation disputes, assisting with downsizings and workplace reductions, assisting with mergers and business combinations, creating both sophisticated and standard employment agreements, creating non-competition agreements and non-solicitation agreements, providing innovative training in areas such as sexual harassment and anti-discrimination and investigating claims of discrimination, creating separation agreements and general releases, performing or assisting with workplace investigations, counsel on and conducting audits relating to exempt/non-exempt status and overtime issues, counsel on family and medical leave requirements and disability laws, creating employee handbooks and workplace policies, counsel on consulting arrangements, counsel on employee misconduct, and strategy on negotiating terminations.

On behalf of individuals and institutions, we provide dynamic litigation expertise in multiple forums. We regularly litigate compensation, discrimination and a variety of other employment law claims in federal and state trial and appellate courts, arbitrations (including FINRA and the American Arbitration Association) and fair employment practices agencies (including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New York State Division of Human Rights and the New York City Human Rights Commission). Our employment lawyers have significant experience with numerous regulatory authorities such as the federal and state departments of labor. We routinely assist individuals and institutions in regulatory investigations, and conduct mediations before private mediators and through mediation organizations and court proceedings. When a matter can be settled, we are relentless in pursing the best possible settlement result and have consistently obtained for our clients favorable settlements either through direct negotiation or as a result of mediation. Throughout the years, our employment law practice has repeatedly achieved remarkable results for our clients through the outstanding skills and personal commitment of our employment lawyers.