

Advocates for Workplace Fairness

Determination: We are determined to provide excellent advice and service to our clients, backed by knowledge, reason and compassion.
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Together: Class actions level the playing field. They are an agent of change and a potent tool to remedy injustice.
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Balance:We guide employees through difficult workplace situations with a balanced application of pragmatic problem-solving, compassionate counsel, and zealous advocacy
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Our job is to zealously advocate for every client. Our goal is to advance the rights of all workers.
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Many employees have legitimate concerns about illegal workplace practices that are ignored or dismissed. Our goal is to advocate for our clients and, importantly, make sure that they feel heard.
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Inclusion: We are committed to fighting to ensure that all employees are included and treated fairly in the workplace.
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Our most important task is helping you identify your goals and achieve them. To do so, we bring to bear professional excellence, personal sensitivity, and constant focus on the most effective way to get you where you want to go.
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Judgment: Our approach is to do what's best for the client. We have the sense to negotiate when possible and the confidence to take cases to trial when necessary.
”About
the Firm
Our firm is dedicated to representing employees and other individuals (including executives, partners, professionals and talent), not employers, in all industries, across all professions, and at all employment levels. As advocates for workplace fairness, our passion and our profession is to help advance the goals of employees and protect their rights against injustices in the workplace.
Our attorneys advise and represent clients in matters involving former employers, current employers, and potential future employers and partnerships. We also represent groups of employees collectively, as well as executive teams in transition. Our international practice reaches across borders to represent and protect multinational employees, executives and partners.
Our lawyers are recognized as some of the most qualified and highly skilled in the field of employment law. Best Lawyers and U.S. News ranked Outten & Golden as “Best Law Firm” in Litigation - Labor & Employment and Employment Law – Individuals. In December 2014, Legal Leaders ranked Outten & Golden “New York Area’s Top Rated Lawyers for Labor & Employment.” Many of our lawyers are AV- rated by Martindale Hubbell and have been recognized by Super Lawyers in the field of “Employment Law – Employee.” Legal 500 recognized O&G as a leader in “Mass tort and class action: plaintiff representation – labor and employment.”
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Gregory S. Chiarello discusses Sexual Harassment issues in the workplace
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Outten & Golden LLP partner Rene S. Roupinian speaking about the WARN Act
Outten & Golden LLP partner Rene S. Roupinian, co-chair of the WARN Practice Group, talks about employee rights and the WARN Act.