Samuel J. Cohen (1908-1991).
Henry Weiss (1910-2004).
MEMBERS OF FIRM
Bruce H. Simon (Member) born New York, New York, December 27, 1934; admitted to bar, 1961, New York, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and D.C. Circuits and U.S. District Court, Southern, Northern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (B.A., 1956); Harvard University (LL.B., 1959). Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Cornell Law School, Fall 1995. Co-Author: "Retiree Benefits in Bankruptcy," Proceedings, New York University 41st Annual Conference on Labor, 1988. Former Member, New York City Board of Collective Bargaining. Member: The Bar Association of the City of New York; American Bar Association; Federal Bar Council. Fellow: College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.Email: Bruce H. Simon
Robert S. Savelson (Member) born Mount Vernon, New York, October 5, 1938; admitted to bar, 1964, New York; 1975, District of Columbia, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and District of Columbia Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court.. Education: Cornell University (B.S., 1960); Columbia University (LL.B., 1964). Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State (Member, Labor and Employment Section) and American (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations; District of Columbia Bar; College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.Email: Robert S. Savelson
Stephen B. Moldof (Member) born New York, New York, February 13, 1946; admitted to bar, 1970, New York; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and District of Columbia Circuits; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: Cornell University (B.S., 1966); Harvard University (J.D., 1969). Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Eta Sigma; Phi Delta Epsilon. Publications: The Railway Labor Act (BNA 1995 and 1996-2002 Supplements thereto) - Senior Editorial Board, The Labor Lawyer (17 Lab. Law 417, Winter/Spring 2002); 5 Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business 119 (2005); ALI-ABA - Airline and Railroad Labor Law - articles in 1993-1997, 1999-2000, 2002-2004, 2006-2007 volumes; International Labor and Employment Laws Vol. I, 2d ed. (BNA 2003) and supplements, Senior Editor, Chapter Author; ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, 1998 Annual Meeting, Vol. 2 (Aug. 1998) 2001 Annual Meeting, Vol. 2 (Aug. 2001); Chapter in "Special Problems with Affirmative Action Plans", NY Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1978; Case Note, Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review (1968). Case Note Editor, Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association (Member, Section on Labor and Employment Law: Union/Employee Council Member; Co-Chair, Committee on Railway and Airline Labor Law, 1991-1994; Co-Chair, Committee on International Labor Law, 2000-2007). Fellow: College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; Int'l Society for Labor & Social Security Law, Executive Board.Email: Stephen B. Moldof
Michael E. Abram (Member) born Chicago, Illinois, April 7, 1944; admitted to bar, 1971, District of Columbia; 1974, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits. Education: Harvard University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1966); Harvard Law School (J.D., 1971). Board of Senior Editors, "The Railway Labor Act" (first and second editions), ABA, Section of Labor and Employment Law, and BNA. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American (Member, Sections on: Labor and Employment Law; Litigation; Individual Rights and Responsibilities; Former Co-Chair, Committee on Railway and Airline Labor Law) Bar Associations; District of Columbia Bar. Fellow: College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Inc.; American Bar Foundation.Email: Michael E. Abram
Keith E. Secular (Member) born Brooklyn, New York, March 28, 1949; admitted to bar, 1976, New York and District of Columbia; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: New York University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1971); London School of Economics, England; University of Chicago (J.D., 1974). Order of the Coif; Phi Beta Kappa. Law Clerk to Hon. Jack B. Weinstein, EDNY. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association.
Peter Herman (Member) born New York, New York, November 10, 1942; admitted to bar, 1978, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Harvard University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1964; M.A., 1966; J.D., 1977). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: American Bar Association.Email: Peter Herman
Richard M. Seltzer (Member) born Orange, New Jersey, April 12, 1950; admitted to bar, 1976, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., magna cum laude, M.A., 1972); Columbia University (J.D., 1975). Phi Beta Kappa. Author: "The Changed Role of Unions in Chapter 11 Bankruptcies," 18 Air & Space Lawyer 8, Fall 2003, Number 2. Contributing Author: "Employee Benefits Law," American Bar Association, 1991. Assistant District Attorney, New York County District Attorney's Office, Appeals and Trials Sections, 1975-1981. Member: New York State and American Bar Associations. Languages: French.Email: Richard M. Seltzer
James L. Linsey (Member) born New York, New York, January 25, 1952; admitted to bar, 1977, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Georgia (A.B., magna cum laude, 1974; J.D., 1977); New York University (LL.M. in Labor Law, 1981). Pi Delta Phi; Pi Sigma Alpha. Author: "The Apportionment of Liability for Damages Between Employer and Union in Section 301 Actions Involving a Union's Breach of Duty to Fair Representation," Mercer Law Review 30:661-80, 1979. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; State Bar of Georgia; American Bar Association (Member: Railway Labor Committee; Section on Labor and Employment Law, 1986). Languages: Spanish and French.Email: James L. Linsey
Jani K. Rachelson (Member) born New York, New York, January 27, 1955; admitted to bar, 1979, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits. Education: Yale University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1975); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1978). Union Co-Chair: Senior Board of Editors, ABA, Section of Labor and Employment Law, and BNA; ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law Committee on Employee Benefits, 2002-2005. Charter Fellow, The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, Inc. Practice Areas: Employee Benefits; ERISA.Email: Jani K. Rachelson
Babette Ceccotti (Member) born Danbury, Connecticut, May 20, 1955; admitted to bar, 1983, New Jersey, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Fifth and Seventh Circuits. Education: Clark University (B.A., with honors, 1977); New York Law School (J.D., 1982). Member, National Bankruptcy Commission, 1995-1997. Member: American Bar Association (Chair, Labor and Employment Subcommittee, ABA Committee on Business Bankruptcy).Email: Babette Ceccotti
Susan Davis (Member) born Orleans, France, December 24, 1954; admitted to bar, 1982, New York, New Jersey, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second and Ninth Circuits. Education: University of California at Berkeley (A.B., with honors, 1976); Rutgers-Newark University (J.D., with high honors, 1981). First Place: Rutgers Annual Moot Court Competition; 1980 Regional Moot Court Competition. Recipient: West Publishing Company Annual Jurisprudence Award; Nathan N. Schildkraut Oral Advocacy Award. Law Clerk to the Hon. Constance Baker Motley, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Member: American Bar Association (Practice and Procedure under the NLRA Sub-Committee); Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State Bar Association (Member, Section on Labor Relations Law).Email: Susan Davis
Michael L. Winston (Member) born New York, New York, February 2, 1954; admitted to bar, 1986, New York; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Fifth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits. Education: Grinnell College (B.A., with honors, 1976); Rutgers University Law School (J.D., with high honors, 1985). Author: "The Commerce Clause and State Programs Aimed at Encouraging the Development of High-Technology Industries," Vol. 11, No. 1, Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal, 1984. Board of Senior Editors, "The Railway Labor Act," 2nd Ed. (2006 Supplement). Member: American Bar Association.Email: Michael L. Winston
Thomas N. Ciantra (Member) born Springfield, Massachusetts, May 25, 1961; admitted to bar, 1987, Michigan; 1988, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; 1990, New York; 1992, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit. Education: Amherst College (A.B., 1983); Yale University (M.A., 1984); Harvard University (J.D., 1987). Phi Betta Kappa. Editor, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 1986-1987. Law Clerk to the Hon. Philip Pratt, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 1987-1989.Email: Thomas N. Ciantra
Joseph J. Vitale (Member) born Brooklyn, New York, 1963; admitted to bar, 1990, New York; 1991, District of Columbia; 1994, New Jersey. Education: Haverford College (B.A., 1985); Fordham University (J.D., cum laude, 1989).Email: Joseph J. Vitale
Peter D. DeChiara (Member) born New York, New York, March 1, 1963; admitted to bar, 1989, New York. Education: Brown University (B.A., 1984); Columbia University (J.D., 1988). Phi Beta Kappa. Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, 1987-1988. Law Clerk to the Hon. Lawrence W. Pierce, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1989. Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School, 1996-1997. Adjunct Professor, New York Law School.Email: Peter D. DeChiara
Lisa M. Gomez (Member) born Greenwich, Connecticut, November 21, 1969; admitted to bar, 1994, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1995, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: Hofstra University (B.A., 1991); Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 1994). Writing and Research Editor, Fordham Urban Law Journal, 1990-1991. Author: Note "Can You Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: Ratification of Releases of ADEA Claims," 20 Ford. Urb. L.J. 311 (1993). Member: New York State (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) and American (Member, Labor and Employment Law Committee and Employee Benefits Sub-Committee) Bar Associations.Email: Lisa M. Gomez
Bruce S. Levine (Member) born N. Tarrytown, New York, October 30, 1959; admitted to bar, 1987, New York; 1988, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: Cornell University (B.S., 1981); University of Wisconsin (J.D., cum laude, 1986). Adjunct Professor: Cornell University, New York State School of Industrial Labor Relations; Dowling College Center for Labor-Management Relations and Dispute Resolution.Email: Bruce S. Levine
James R. Grisi (Member) born Jersey City, New Jersey, September 7, 1953; admitted to bar, 1989, New Jersey, New York and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey and Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: Rutgers University, Livingston College (B.A., 1983); Rutgers School of Law (J.D., 1988).Email: James R. Grisi
Elizabeth O'Leary (Member) born Brooklyn, New York, February 12, 1969; admitted to bar, 1997, New York. Education: LeMoyne College (B.S., summa cum laude, 1991); Cornell University (M.I.L.R., 1993); Cornell Law School (J.D., 1996). Member, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 1994-1996.Email: Elizabeth O'Leary
Travis M. Mastroddi (Member) born Port Jefferson, New York, June 12, 1973; admitted to bar, 1997, Maryland; 2002, New York and Connecticut. Education: University of Rochester (B.A., cum laude, 1994); University of Maryland (J.D., with honors, 1997). Practice Areas: Employment Law; Labor Law; Civil Litigation.Email: Travis M. Mastroddi
Manlio Di Preta (Partner) born Queens, New York, January 15, 1958; admitted to bar, 1985, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: Polytechnic Institute of New York; Hunter College of the City University of New York (B.A., summa cum laude, 1981); Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University (J.D., 1984). Instructor: Conflict Resolution, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1990-1991; Communications and First Amendment Law, Hunter College, 1987. Member: New York State Bar Association, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York.Email: Manlio Di Preta
ASSOCIATES
Robin H. Gise (Associate) born Sacramento, California, January 20, 1972; admitted to bar, 2001, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: Oberlin College (B.A., 1994); Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 2000). Writing and Research Editor, Fordham International Law Journal, 1999-2000. Author: "The Whistleblower Protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002," AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee Bulletin, October 2003. Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on New York City Affairs, 2004-2007; New York State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Labor Law; Employment Law; Bankruptcy; Civil Litigation.Email: Robin H. Gise
Oriana Vigliotti (Associate) born Detroit, Michigan, March 2, 1977; admitted to bar, 2002, Michigan; 2003, New York. Education: University of Michigan (A.B., 1999); Boston University (J.D., 2002). Phi Beta Kappa. Practice Areas: Labor Law; ERISA; Bankruptcy.Email: Oriana Vigliotti
David R. Hock (Associate) born New Haven, Connecticut, September 5, 1974; admitted to bar, 1999, Virginia; 2003, New York and New Jersey. Education: Cornell University (A.B., 1996); Washington College of Law of American University (J.D., 1999).
Claire Tuck (Associate) born Syracuse, New York September 15, 1978; admitted to bar, 2006, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 2007, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: Cornell University (B.A., 2000); Cardozo School of Law (J.D., 2006). Order of the Coif. Author: "Policy Formulation at the NLRB: A Viable Alternative to Notice and Comment Rulemaking," 27 Cardozo Law Review 1117 (2005).
Bradley Sollars (Associate) born Cedar Rapids, Iowa, May 6, 1978; admitted to bar, 2003, Missouri; 2004, Kansas; 2005, Iowa; 2007, New York. Education: Tulane University (B.A., 2000); University of Iowa, College of Law (J.D., 2003).
Marcelle J. Henry (Associate) born Brooklyn, New York, December 15, 1974; admitted to bar, 2001, New York; 2002, Indiana. Education: Hofstra University (B.A., with distinction, 1996); Michigan State University College of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1999); NYU School of Law (LL.M., 2001). Delta Theta Phi, Clerk of the Exchequer, 1998-1999; Psi Chi. Golden Key Int'l Honour Society. Member: New York State, Indiana State (Co-chair, Committee on Racial Diversity in the Legal Profession) and American Bar Associations. Languages: French; Haitian Creole. Practice Areas: Employee Benefits; ERISA.
Richard C. Harmon (Associate) born June 22, 1957; admitted to bar, 1982, Ohio and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio; 1983, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania; 1999, Connecticut and New York. Education: University of Pittsburgh (B.A., with honors, 1979); Drake University Law School (J.D., 1981); Washington University School of Law (LL.M. in Taxation, 1983). Treasurer, Worldwide Employee Benefits (WEB), Stamford, Connecticut Chapter. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Employee Benefits Committee). Practice Areas: Employee Benefits; ERISA; Federal Taxation.Email: Richard C. Harmon
Evan Hudson-Plush (Associate) born Fresh Meadows, New York, September 2, 1980; admitted to bar, 2008, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: University of Michigan (B.B.A., 2001); Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 2007). Executive Editor, Cardozo Law Review, 2006-2007. Law Clerk, Hon. Frank Maas, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Southern District of New York, 2007-2008. Author: "WARN's Place in the FLSA/Employment Discrimination Dichotomy: Why a Warning Cannot Be Waived", 27 Cardozo Law Review 292, 2006.Email: Evan Hudson-Plush
Zachary N. Leeds (Associate) born New York, New York, March 10, 1976; admitted to bar, 2005, New York. Education: University of California at Berkeley (B.A., 2000); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2004). Book Review Editor, Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, 2003-2004. Practice Areas: Employee Benefits; ERISA.
Joshua John Ellison (Associate) born 1976; admitted to bar, 2004, New York. Education: Oberlin College (B.A., cum laude, 1998); University of Michigan (J.D., magna cum laude, 2004).
OF COUNSEL
Stanley M. Berman (Of Counsel) born Louisville, Kentucky, August 10, 1936; admitted to bar, 1964, New York; 1965, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1976, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Fifth and Tenth Circuits. Education: Amherst College (B.A., 1958); Harvard University (LL.B., 1961). Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) and American Bar Associations.Email: Stanley M. Berman