Justin M. Swartz

Partner
Email: jms@outtengolden.com

JUSTIN M. SWARTZ, a partner at Outten & Golden LLP and Co-Chair of its Class Action Practice Group, represents employees in class action wage/hour and discrimination cases, as well as individual discrimination cases and other employment matters. Justin is also a member of the firm’s LGBT Employment Rights Practice Group.

Justin represents workers in overtime lawsuits against Wal-Mart, IBM, JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, UPS, Gristede’s, Duane Reade, and other major corporations, including several call center operators. Between 1998 and 2002, he represented hundreds of female stock brokers in the ADR processes created by the settlements of national gender discrimination class action lawsuits against two of the country’s leading securities firms. He was also a member of the trial team in two class action race discrimination jury trials.

He is active in several bar associations. He serves on the Committee on Civil Rights of the New York City Bar Association and is a former member of its Committee on Labor and Employment Law (2002-2005). Justin also serves on the Executive Board of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) New York chapter and is Co-Chair of the NELA Fair Labor Standards Act Committee. In the ABA Section on Labor and Employment Law, he is Co-Chair of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee and an active member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee (Newsletter Co-Editor and Taskforce on Diversity).

Justin frequently works with non-profit organizations on public interest matters. His recent work includes successfully representing a formerly incarcerated security guard in a licensing hearing on behalf of MFY Legal Services and representing three low wage immigrant women in Upper Manhattan as co-counsel to the ACLU Women's Rights Project.* He has performed other pro bono work for the New York Civil Liberties Union, Legal Momentum, the Anti-Defamation League, NYLAG, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and MFY as a volunteer attorney at its legal clinics. Justin is also part of the Lambda Legal Cooperating Attorney Network. While living in Chicago, he volunteered at First Defense Legal Aid, providing emergency representation for recent arrestees and documenting police misconduct. He belongs to the American Constitution Society and Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Justin speaks frequently on employment law and ethics. He and has co-authored recent papers on retaliatory counterclaims by employers, discrimination suits by law-firm partners, stereotyping evidence in discrimination cases, and other employment law and ethics issues.

He graduated from DePaul University School of Law with honors in 1998. He joined Outten & Golden LLP in December 2003 after representing workers as an associate at Goodman & Zuchlewski, LLP, in New York and Stowell & Friedman, Ltd., in Chicago. He is a member of the bars of New York and Illinois.

*Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

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