Lyle S. Zuckerman
Shareholder
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Lyle S. Zuckerman is a shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Area. For over 12 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, financial services, construction, and maritime.
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.
Representative clients include St. John’s University, MTV Networks, Sotheby’s, Inc., New York Water Taxi, Highbridge Capital Management, Royal Bank of Scotland, and DBI Construction Consultants, Inc.
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Mr. Zuckerman’s numerous litigation victories include the following:
obtained a preliminary injunction enforcing a two-year post-employment restrictive covenant in favor of an electronic payment processing company, 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 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);
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 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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- J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1996
- Member, Fordham Urban Law Journal and Fordham Moot Court Board
- Legal Intern, National Labor Relations Board Division of Judges (1995)
- B.A., Lafayette College, 1993
- National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)
- New York City Bar Association
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