Press Release

01/15/09 - Laura Sack and Lyle Zuckerman Join Labor & Employment Practice in New York

Vedder Price P.C. announces that Laura Sack and Lyle S. Zuckerman have joined its Labor and Employment law practice in the New York office. Both attorneys have spent their entire careers in the representation of management interests in Labor and Employment law matters. Ms. Sack’s practice includes litigating employment cases in state and federal jurisdictions, representing clients before administrative agencies, designing and conducting employment law training programs and counseling management on labor and employment law issues. Mr. Zuckerman’s expertise includes traditional labor law (grievance arbitration, NLRB proceedings, secondary boycotts and work stoppages, union organizing campaigns and contract negotiations) as well as a full range of employment law matters. Ms. Sack and Mr. Zuckerman join Vedder Price from the law firm of Kauff McGuire & Margolis LLP

Neal Korval, Managing Shareholder of the New York office stated: “We are delighted to have Laura and Lyle join us. They are exceptional lawyers and client advocates, capable of handling any sort of labor or employment law matter. They bring not only an interesting and varied practice, but they are truly dedicated to providing clients with the very highest quality of legal services available.”

A graduate of Brown University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1988), Ms. Sack was elected into Phi Beta Kappa and was a recipient of the Baker Fellowship for Leadership and Scholarship. She also served as an intern in the Rhode Island State House of Representatives. She received her law degree from Yale Law School (J.D., 1991), where she served as Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Prior to joining the Kauff McGuire firm, Ms. Sack was a Senior Attorney for Witco Corporation (now Chemtura Corporation), a global specialty chemical manufacturer in Greenwich, Connecticut, where her responsibilities included all labor and employment, employee benefits, and immigration issues worldwide. Following a one-year clerkship with the Honorable Raymond J. Pettine (U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island), Ms. Sack joined the labor and employment law group of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York.

Mr. Zuckerman is a graduate of Lafayette College (B.A., 1993) and Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 1996), where he was a member of the Fordham Urban Law Journal and the Fordham Moot Court Board. He also served as an intern for the National Labor Relations Board Division of Judges. During the period 2004—2006, Mr. Zuckerman served as Associate General Counsel of St. John’s University in Jamaica, NY. In that capacity, he had sole responsibility for labor, employment and civil rights matters for a 2,700-employee and 20,000-student university. Prior to his joining Kauff McGuire in 1998, he was an associate in the New York offices of Proskauer Rose and Morgan Lewis & Bockius.