Wayne N. Outten

Managing Partner
Email: wno@outtengolden.com

WAYNE N. OUTTEN is the managing partner of Outten & Golden LLP. He concentrates in representing individuals in all areas of employment law and in civil litigation. He co-chairs the firm’s Executives and Professionals Practice Group.

Mr. Outten has lectured extensively on employment law, especially on negotiation, mediation, and arbitration of employment disputes and on employment and severance agreements. He is a widely published author whose work is frequently found in legal and popular publications.

Mr. Outten was selected by his peers as one of the New York Area’s Best Lawyers, as featured in New York Magazine in 2006*, and as one of New York’s Super Lawyers – Manhattan Edition 2006* - where he was listed as one of the Top 100 lawyers in Manhattan. He was selected for the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America in 2006* and for the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Lawyers in America in 2007.*

After more than a year of proceedings, Mr. Outten and Laurence Moy led the trial team in a two-week trial in a vigorously contested arbitration case against financial services giant Deutsche Bank, winning  $18.9 million in damages, interest, and expenses. This American Arbitration Association award represents one of the largest arbitration awards in an employment case.

Mr. Outten is a founding member of the Executive Board of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and served on its Board for more than 11 years; he is co-chair of its International Law Committee. He founded the New York affiliate of NELA and was its president for more than 15 years.

He was a Governor of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers (1996-2003). Mr. Outten serves on the Council of the Section of Labor and Employment Law of the American Bar Association, is the plaintiff co-chair of the Section's International Labor Law Committee, is Liaison for the Section's Committee on Pro Bono Work, is Liaison for the Section's Committee on Employment Rights and Responsibilities, and was the plaintiff co-chair of the Section's CLE Subcommittee on Regional Programs and of the Committee on Employment Rights and Responsibilities. He is an active member of the New York State Bar Association's Labor & Employment Law Section, is co-chair of its International Labor & Employment Law Committee, and was co-chair of its Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution.

He is a co-founder and officer of Workplace Fairness (formerly the National Employee Rights Institute), a charitable/educational organization. He has been a member of the Labor & Employment Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is a member of the Employment Disputes Committee of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. For almost 20 years, he was a member of the Board of the New York Civil Liberties Union (and its Nassau chapter) and been a member of its Executive Committee.

Mr. Outten received his B.S. from Drexel University in 1970 and his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1974, where he was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1979. He was a law clerk for United States District Court Judge Gus J. Solomon, District of Oregon, 1974-76, and was an instructor at the New York University School of Law, 1976-1978. He was an associate and then a partner at Lankenau Kovner & Outten, LLP, 1979-1998.

He is a member of the bars of New York, the United States Supreme Court, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

*Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

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