Blair Robinson

Practice Areas

Blair Robinson is a partner in the Employment & Compensation Practice Group in Baker McKenzie's New York office. He is ranked in Chambers USA as a leading employment lawyer in New York. Blair represents clients on a broad range of labor and employment matters, including class/collective actions, high stakes individual plaintiff litigation and sensitive investigations involving senior executives.

His practice focuses on defending large-scale discrimination and wage and hour class and collective actions and individual and multi-plaintiff litigation, representing clients in the pharmaceutical, financial services, and media/entertainment industries before state and federal courts.

His practice encompasses a wide range of labor and employment matters, focusing on employment law disputes and trial work, where clients have noted his "advocacy is excellent and his understanding of the issues and trial strategy is outstanding." Blair has defended companies in systemic employment discrimination class actions involving claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Additionally, he advises employers on ways to avoid class action lawsuits through diversity initiatives, comprehensive internal policy audits and global pay equity reviews, which are designed to assess and remediate class and collective action litigation risk and ensure compliance with myriad state, federal and global laws and regulations. He also counsels clients on a wide array of cross-border employment issues, including reductions in force.

Blair also litigates a variety of individual employment matters, including sexual harassment and claims of discrimination based on age, race, sex, national origin and disability, wrongful termination cases, breach of contract matters, and trade secret/restrictive covenant litigation.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

USA

Languages Spoken

English

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