Top Employment Lawyers Near Me in Garden City Area

Todd D. Muhlstock formed The Muhlstock Law Firm, P.C. in early 2015, with a foundation of prodigious experience including:. • Advising and counselling various businesses, owners, professionals, employees and independent contractors regarding: employment law matters; hiring and termination; contract negotiation and drafting in assorted business transactions; corporate strategies; entity structure, formation and dissolution; and regulatory compliance issues.• Conducting over one hundred trials as lead trial counsel in numerous state and federal courts, as well as the pre-trial litigation of claims concerning: employment law, various commercial litigation, contract disputes, business accountings and dissolutions, lottery financing and assignments, healthcare insurance law, class actions, consumer fraud/false advertising and personal injury in numerous courts and administrative agencies.• Briefing and arguing appellate cases in the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division First & Second Departments; the New Jersey Appellate Division; and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.. Mr. Muhlstock is admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of the United States of America; the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; the United States District Courts of the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), the District of New Jersey (DNJ) and the District of Puerto Rico (DPR); and all New York and New Jersey State Courts.  He has also been admitted pro hac vice in the United States District Courts of: the Southern District of Florida (SDFL), the Central District of California (CDCA), the Southern District of Indiana (SDIN), the District of Minnesota (DMN) and the Northern District of Illinois (NDIL).. Todd D. Muhlstock has been practicing law for over 20 years, including:  as a Founding Member and Partner in Baker Sanders, LLC (formerly Baker, Sanders, Barshay, Grossman, Fass, Muhlstock & Neuwirth LLC) (2005 – 2015);  as a Partner in Sanders, Grossman, Fass & Muhlstock, PC (2002 – 2005); as class action co-counsel with Girard Gibbs LLP (2012 – 2014); as Of Counsel for Compliance and Litigation to Eric M. Berman, P.C. (2008 – 2010); as General Counsel of The Zeus Organization LLC (2008- 2010); as an Of Counsel litigator to Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Veiner & Grossman (2004 – present); as Of Counsel for Employment Law and Compliance to Aronova & Associates, LLC (2015 – present); as Trial Counsel to Bergman, Bergman, Goldberg Fields & Lamonsoff LLP (2015 – present); as Co-Chair and Founder of the Superstorm Sandy Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) (2013 - 2014); as a Senior Associate with Mergel, Tubman & Grossman (1996 – 2002); and served as an intern with the law firm of O’Dwyer & Bernstein LLP (1995).

Thomas R. Fazio graduated from Syracuse University and earned hisJuris Doctorate from City University of New York. He became a member ofthe New York State Bar in 1986. In 1996, Mr. Fazio began his own lawpractice serving corporations and small businesses in New York the last nine years, he has also served as in-house counsel forsecured commercial lenders with annual revenues in the billions ofdollars.. Mr. Fazio enjoys using his unique experience and varied resources tonegotiate and document important business transactions for large andsmall businesses. He concentrates in corporate formations, structureand finance, as well as operation and funding of medical facilitiesacross the country.

Mr. Koutsoudakis is focuses his practice on government audits, and individual and class action employment litigation defense. Specifically, he represents individuals and businesses involved in federal or state litigation, or who are the subject of a government audit or investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor Wage & Hour Division, the New York State Department of Labor Division of Labor Standards, the National Labor Relations Board, the New York State Division of Human Rights, the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He also regularly represents individuals and businesses who are sued for alleged violations of federal and state civil rights and employment laws, including the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the New York State Human Rights Law, and the New York City Human Rights Law. Within his Commercial practice, he represents clients involved in various business disputes including shareholder, partnership and membership disputes, as well as breach of contract and other commercial claims. He has extensive experience in representing individuals and businesses in the food service industry, including restaurants, distributors, and manufacturers, as well as in the real estate and construction industries. While in law school, Mr. Koutsoudakis was a Member of the St. Thomas Law Review and the recipient of numerous Best Student Awards. He completed a joint degree (JD/MBA) program in less than three years, and graduated at the top of his class. Because of his business background and experience, he understand his client’s needs and is able to better counsel them by taking into consideration both the business and legal issues involved.. Mr. Koutsoudakis was named by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in Metro New York for Employment Litigation Defense in 2013, 2014 and 2015. He volunteers at local non-profit organizations, and is regularly published in a restaurant industry magazine. Mr. Koutsoudakis is fluent in Greek.

Michael was born and raised on Long Island where he currently resides with his wife and four daughters. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my girls.

Michael Katzen, a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP), and member of the firm’s Employment and Labor, and Business and Commercial Practice Groups, devotes his practice to representing businesses and organizations in employment law matters.. Mike routinely defends employers, both directly and as Employment Practices Liability (EPL) panel counsel, in employment litigation matters brought in the state and federal courts of New Jersey and New York, as well as in alternative dispute resolution forums like the American Arbitration Association. Mike also represents employers before a wide variety of administrative agencies, including the U.S., New Jersey, and New York State departments of labor; the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights; the New York State Division of Human Rights; and the New York City Commission on Human Rights.. While much of his practice involves defending employers once a dispute has arisen, Mike also focuses a great deal of his practice on providing employers with practical advice to avoid lawsuits. Mike routinely counsels employers on day-to-day human resources (HR) and employment law issues, including employee discipline, terminations, discrimination/harassment, leaves of absence, overtime, independent contractor and unpaid intern/volunteer classifications, workplace accommodations, trade secrets, social media, and protected union-related activity. He audits employment practices, delivers management training, and assists employers in investigating allegations of employee misconduct such as theft and discrimination/harassment. Mike also prepares HR policies, employee handbooks, and employment contracts, as well as confidentiality, non-solicitation, and non-compete agreements.. Mike represents employers from a wide variety of industries, including retail, health care, manufacturing, transportation, and higher education. Mike’s focus on the retail industry in particular has gained him experience representing retailers and developers in “public accommodation” cases under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). He also has significant experience representing religious non-profit entities in workplace issues.. Mike frequently trains and presents to attorneys, business groups, and clients on a variety of topics, including accommodating employees with disabilities under the ADA; the interaction of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), ADA, and workers’ compensation; conducting effective workplace investigations; and avoiding wage/hour pitfalls.

Michael C. Barrows practices in all areas of matrimonial law at the trial and appellate levels, with a particular emphasis on complex contested divorce litigation. In addition to his divorce litigation practice, Mr. Barrows represents clients in uncontested divorce matters, divorce mediation and the negotiation of separation and pre-nuptial agreements.. As an experienced trial attorney and appellate advocate, Mr. Barrows has successfully prosecuted and defended complex civil, criminal and commercial actions on behalf of clients located in the New York City, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island and Nassau and Suffolk Counties in Long Island.. Mr. Barrows’ commercial litigation experience includes State and Federal matters involving actions for breach of contract, shareholder disputes, fraud and fraudulent inducement, mismanagement, theft, unlawful transfer of assets, breach of fiduciary duty, employer/employee disputes, and commercial collections.

I am a founding member and managing partner at Valli Kane & Vagnini LLP.  In 2016 I was awarded the Long Island Business News Leadership in the law award and I was honored as one of the outstanding women in the law by the Hofstra Law School Center for Children, Women and the law.. In 1994, I graduated cum laude from Boston University.  In 1998, I graduated with distinction from Hofstra Law School in the top 8% of my class.  While attending law school I was the Managing Editor of Articles for the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal, (1997 – 1998).. Following law school, I honed my litigation skills while working as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York.  While working for NYC I conducted and defended hundreds of depositions/hearings, participated in extensive discovery, motion practice, pre-trial and trial work.. Presently I am primarily responsible for overseeing the firm’s participation in Wage and Hour Collective and Class Actions, False Claims Act cases, Class and Mass Discrimination actions and the confidential Alternative Dispute Resolution of Class/Mass and Individual actions, as well as charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and various equivalent State Agencies.

Goodstadt Law Group is a boutique law firm representing companies, executives, professionals and current and former employees in nearly every aspect of employment law, as well as in commercial and business transactions and disputes.  We also have extensive experience in executive compensation matters, including the negotiation and drafting of complex employment arrangements and separation agreements on behalf of senior-level executives and corporations. In addition, we regularly negotiate and draft covenants not to compete and nonsolicitation, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements.

Christopher L. Van De Water focuses his practice on employment, labor and business law, where he proactively and aggressively represents all manner of clients in litigation and negotiation in all areas of employment law, including wage and hour matters, sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, professional contracts, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and numerous other types of employment-based litigation and disputes. He has over 20 years of litigation experience and has successfully tried numerous cases to verdict in both State and Federal court.. In his own words, Chris’s education truly started at Chaminade High School, where he proudly continues to be involved in their alumni network. Chris then went on to pursue a dual degree of Economics and Business Management at Cornell University, where he rowed for the Lightweight Crew Team and was a proud member of Phi Sigma Kappa. He then went on to study Labor Law at Hofstra University School of Law where he served as an Editor of the prestigious and nationally renown Labor Law Journal. Chris also served as an Assistant Attorney General within the New York State Office of the Attorney General’s Law Enforcement Division during Andrew Cuomo’s tenure as Attorney General, as well as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in New York City’s Special Federal Litigation unit defending the City against the infamous “Mafia Cop” cases.. Chris’s numerous successes have been featured in newspapers, legal journals and other media sources including the Associated Press, New York Post, New York Daily News, Law 360 and the New York Law Journal.