About Jules L. Smith

Order of the Coif; Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Delta Phi. Member: Editorial Board, Syracuse Law Review, 1970-1971; Justinian Society. Author: “Understanding How to Apply the DSM - IV to a Case Under the ADA,” 17 The Labor Lawyer 449 (2002); “An Employee Compliance Checklist, The Employment Provisions of the ADA,” 39 Federal News & Bar Journal Vol. 1, pg. 81, (January, 1992); “Accommodating the Americans With Disabilities Act to Collective Bargaining Obligations Under the NLRA,” Volume 18, No. 2, Employee Relations Law Journal, page 273 ff. (Autumn, 1992). Faculty Member and Lecturer: National Academy of Arbitrators, Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, Tough Calls in Arbitration Symposium, 2008; AFL-CIO, Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, Update on Anti-Discrimination Laws, 2008; Georgetown University Law Center Employment Law & Litigation Update 1998-; Juxtaposition of FMLA, Workers’ Compensation and the ADA, April 16-17, 1998; American Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education TeleConference-Employee Leaves of Absence: at the Crossroads of the FMLA, the ADA and Worker’s Compensation, March 26, 1996, National Teleconference; Practicing Law Institute, Sexual Harassment Litigation Program – Plaintiff’s Perspective: Motion Practice in Sexual Harassment Litigation, New York City, June 22, 1994; Building and Construction Trades Attorneys’ Conference, April 4, 1994, Seattle Washington: The Americans With Disabilities Act: Application of Title III, Public Accommodations, to Unions in the Construction Trades; Program Co-Chair, 25th Pacific Coast Labor Law Conference: Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs, Creating Equity in the Workplace and Avoiding Disaster in the Courts; The Americans With Disabilities Act: Adjustments for Collective Bargaining - Reality Replaces Rhetoric, May 15, 1992, Seattle, Washington. Member, 1975-, Secretary, 1978, President, 1979 and Vice President, 1983, Board of Directors, Onondaga Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. Member, Executive Board, 1990-1994, Rochester Fights Back. Vice-Chair, Greater Rochester Fights Back, 1992-1994; Chair, Prevention Partners, 1994-1996; Co-Chair, Rochester Committee on Foreign Relations, 1992-1998. Member, Board of Directors, United Way of Rochester, 1991-1996; Listed, New York Magazine, Summer Issue 2006, The New York Area’s Best Lawyers; Listed SuperLawyer, 2022; Member, Board of Directors, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, 2008-, and Secretary, 2011- Chair Elect 2013-2014; Chair, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Board of Directors, 2015-2019 and Immediate Past-Chair 2020.

 

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Areas of Law

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Litigation
  • Other 9
    • Benefits Litigation
    • Employment & Severance Agreements
    • Health & Welfare Plans
    • Individual & Executive Disputes
    • Labor Litigation
    • Multiemployer & Public Plans
    • Pension Plans
    • Public Sector Unions
    • Wage & Hour

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    Of Counsel
    Firm Name
    Blitman & King LLP

Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    1972, New York
    1973, U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
    1975, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    1982, U.S. Supreme Court
    1972, U.S. Court for the Northern District of New York
    Memberships
    Member, American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section (Budget and Finance Committee Co-Chair 2009—)(Equal Employment Opportunity Committee Co-Chair, 1985-1988)( Ad Hoc Committee to Comment on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Americans With Disabilities Act Regulations, 1990-1991)
    American Bar Association, Section Officers Council, Budget and Finance Class Representative, 2010-2014
    Monroe County (Trustee, 1994-1995
    Co-Chair, Labor and Employment Law Committee), Onondaga County, New York State Bar (Member: House of Delegates, 1989-1994
    Labor and Employment Law Section, Chairman, 1984
    Equal Employment Opportunity Committee)

    American Judicature Society
    Industrial Relations Research Association (Co-Founder, IRRA of Central New York, 1978-1979
    Vice-President, 1981).
    Bar Fellowship
    New York Bar Foundation.
  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    Syracuse University
    Class of 1971
    J.D.
    Other Education
    Syracuse University
    Class of 1969
    B.S.
  • Personal Details & History
    Age
    Born in 1947
    New York, N.Y., October 7, 1947

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    Jules L. Smith is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, United States District Court for the Western District of New York and United States Supreme Court.
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