Labor & Employment
USA Guide 2024 : New Jersey
Band 2
Contact number
+1 973 360 7900About
Provided by Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Greenberg Traurig’s Labor & Employment Group provides national and international corporations with strategic legal advice on all matters concerning the employment relationship. With over 170 practitioners around the globe, we offer national and international organizations strategic and practical legal services that are focused on maximizing human resource potential.
- We are trial lawyers and regularly try cases to verdict. Our Labor & Employment trial team is regularly called upon to handle complex, bet-the-company cases and has taken three cases to the U.S. Supreme Court in the past 10 years.
- Our experience in class and collective litigation is wide-ranging, having handled over 100 such cases in the last three years alone. Our experience with the courts, counsel, and judges across our global footprint that are routinely involved in such matters gives our clients access to critical information utilized to aggressively and efficiently respond to and defend such matters.
- We assist clients in maintaining positive labor relations. Our skilled Labor & Employment Group has in-depth experience structuring corporate transactions aimed at maximizing managerial flexibility and labor efficiency, negotiating collective bargaining agreements, trying labor arbitrations throughout the country, and assisting employers to lead and manage in ways that best fit their cultures.
Chambers Review
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is a well-known player in the labor and employment market, noted for its capabilities in collective and class action litigation and its success in jury trials. It also assists clients with training programs and advises on business immigration. The firm provides counsel to a diverse client base including healthcare groups, retailers and financial services companies.
Work Highlights
- Greenberg Traurig, LLP represented a leading global provider of airline catering in a single plaintiff discrimination and failure to accommodate case.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Greenberg Traurig has an excellent team that is able to provide legal advice on a myriad of issues in a timely manner."
"The attorneys I have worked with are responsive subject matter experts that understand the industry and my organization and provide practical guidance."
"Greenberg Traurig has an excellent team that is able to provide legal advice on a myriad of issues in a timely manner."
"The attorneys I have worked with are responsive subject matter experts that understand the industry and my organization and provide practical guidance."
Notable Practitioners
Wendy Johnson Lario frequently provides companies with counsel on policy development matters, in addition to representing employers in discrimination and harassment disputes. She is also noted for expertise in restrictive covenant and noncompete provisions.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Wendy over the years. She is an excellent resource for us."
"She is very thorough, very responsive and experienced: a great resource."
Galit Kierkut's broad expertise covers disputes involving restrictive covenant and unfair competition issues, as well as allegations of discrimination.
"Galit is a pleasure to work with. She is always immediately responsive to our needs and finds the right attorney or team to handle our questions."
"She provides exceptional service and guidance. She's an expert in employment law and an excellent resource to our company."
Kristine Feher has a multifaceted practice, dedicated to advising on employment disputes, internal investigations, regulatory compliance and policy development on behalf of large corporations.
"Kristine is incredible. She is an amazing lawyer, a mentor, a very practical advisor on very complex issues and gives very strong recommendations on issues. She is very respectful of the the business interests."
"Kris is excellent! She is solution-oriented and provides us with fair, balanced feedback and practical solutions. I highly recommend her!"
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