About
From its inception in 1928, Cole Schotz has been known for its labor and employment law expertise. One of the firm’s founders, David Cole, a noted labor arbitrator and mediator, served as Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and counseled every U.S. President from Harry S. Truman to Gerald R. Ford in national labor crises. The Employment Law Department continues that fine tradition today.
The Employment Law Department provides preventive counseling to both large and small employers on a wide range of compliance issues and evolving statutory requirements, including those related to wrongful discharge, discrimination, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, sexual and other forms of harassment, family and medical leaves of absence, disability and substance abuse. Our attorneys also work closely with human resource professionals on many other personnel matters, such as pre-hiring considerations, employee manuals and employee job performance and termination issues.
If disputes arise, the Employment Law Department has handled all types of employment matters and regularly appears before federal and state courts and various administrative bodies, such as the N.J. Division on Civil Rights, the N.Y. Division of Human Rights and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Many of the attorneys in the Employment Law Department have been members of the prestigious Sidney Reitman Employment Inn of Court, the first Inn of Court in the nation that exclusively focuses on labor and employment issues. Attorneys in the Department have also been recognized by their peers as “New Jersey Super Lawyers” and included in “Best Lawyers in America.”
