Lyle S. Zuckerman
Shareholder
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Lyle Zuckerman is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment practice area. For over 14 years, he has represented management in all disciplines of labor and employment law.
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 the full range of employment law matters. In this regard, Mr. Zuckerman defends employment discrimination and breach of contract matters before federal and state courts and administrative agencies, and in arbitrations before FINRA and the AAA. He also devotes a significant portion of his practice to the prosecution and defense of claims involving the breach of post-employment restrictive covenants, including seeking emergency injunctive relief. Mr. Zuckerman regularly counsels and litigates on behalf of clients in diverse industries, including education, entertainment and media, retail, financial services and manufacturing.
Prior to joining Vedder Price, Mr. Zuckerman was a partner at Kauff McGuire & Margolis, and an associate at Proskauer Rose and Morgan Lewis & Bockius. He also served as Associate General Counsel for St. John’s University in Queens, New York, a major metropolitan Catholic university with 30,000 students and 3,000 employees, for which he had sole responsibility for labor, employment and civil rights matters. During law school, Mr. Zuckerman clerked for the National Labor Relations Board Division of Judges. Mr. Zuckerman is a member of the Management Attorneys’ Conference and the National Association of College and University Attorneys.
The Legal 500 United States guide recommends Mr. Zuckerman in the Labor and Employment—Labor-Management Relations category. Mr. Zuckerman was selected for inclusion in 2011 New York Rising Stars.
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Mr. Zuckerman’s numerous litigation victories include the following:
won summary judgment for an investment bank, resulting in dismissal of all claims, including sex discrimination in pay, age discrimination and retaliatory discharge by a former female executive. Kearney v. ABN AMRO, Inc ., _F. Supp. 2d_, 2010 WL 3621517 (S.D.N.Y. 2010);
won summary judgement in favor of a leading Catholic university in a case involving religion, race and retaliatory discharge claims. Tomasino v. St. John’s University, 2010 WL 3721047 (E.D.N.Y. 2010);
obtained a preliminary injunction enforcing a two-year post-employment restrictive covenant in favor of an electronic payment processing company and against a senior-level employee who resigned his employment with the intent of commencing employment with a competitor. Payment Alliance International, Inc. v. Ferreira, 530 F. Supp. 2d 477 (S.D.N.Y. 2007);
won summary judgment for LaSalle Bank, and successfully defended the appeal, in a case alleging violations of ERISA and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the denial of employment benefits. Gilbert v. LaSalle Bank Corp., 2008 WL 4406357 (S.D.N.Y. 2008), 2010 WL 3584171 (2nd Cir. 2010);
won summary judgment in favor of a national building services company on federal race and age harassment, and retaliation claims. Rabel v. American Building Maintenance, 2002 WL 389156 (S.D.N.Y. 2002). Dismissal was subsequently affirmed on appeal;
won dismissal, on jurisdictional grounds, of a state court breach of employment contract action against an affiliate of a Big Four accounting firm;
obtained summary judgment in favor of a jewelry importer and its principal who were sued by the principal’s former employer for unfair competition and breach of a non-disclosure agreement;
secured a temporary restraining order against an investment bank’s former broker for breach of a post-employment restrictive covenant; and
- in an emergency appeal to the Appellate Division, First Department, obtained an order requiring a former employee to return former employer’s confidential documents, resulting in a favorable settlement that included reimbursement of attorneys’ fees in full.
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