Roy P. Salins

Associate

T: 212-407-6965 F: 212-407-7799

New York

Roy P. Salins joined Vedder Price’s Labor and Employment Practice Area in January 2009.

Since graduating from law school in 2001, Mr. Salins has concentrated solely on the practice of labor and employment law.  Mr. Salins’s practice includes all aspects of litigation in federal and state courts, administrative agencies and in arbitrations before FINRA and the AAA.  Mr. Salins also devotes a large part of his practice to counseling clients in all areas of labor and employment law, compliance with federal and state nondiscrimination and wage statutes, and issues relating to reduction in force, employee compensation, benefits, staffing, hiring, discipline and discharge.

Before joining Vedder Price, Mr. Salins was a senior associate at Kauff McGuire & Margolis, and spent five years as an associate in the Labor and Employment Department at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City, during which he spent several months working as interim labor and employment counsel to Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.

Mr. Salins is a graduate of the University of Michigan and he received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.

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• Discrimination Law
• Employment Agreements
• Employment Class Action Defense
• Employment Counseling
• Employment Litigation
• Fair Labor Standards Act
• Labor and Employment Law
• Supervisor Training
• Workplace Security
• Wrongful Discharge

Mr. Salins’s numerous litigation victories include the following:

• won summary judgment for radio station in pay discrimination case brought by advertising salesperson;
• won motion to dismiss Sarbanes-Oxley retaliation claim;
• won summary judgment in AAA arbitration, obtaining dismissal of discriminatory failure to pay bonus claim;
• obtained enforcement by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York of two-year post-employment restrictive covenant; and 
• obtained enforcement by New York State Court of two-month garden leave provision.

• J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2001
• B.A., University of Michigan, 1998

• New York
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2003
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2003
• U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, 2009

• Member, Committee on Labor and Employment Law of the New York City Bar Association