Roy P. Salins
Associate
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Roy P. Salins joined Vedder Price’s Litigation and Labor and Employment practice areas in January 2009.
Mr. Salins’s practice focuses on all aspects of litigation in federal and state courts and administrative agencies, and in FINRA, AAA and other arbitrations. Mr. Salins also devotes a large portion of his practice to prelitigation advice and preventive law counseling across a wide spectrum of client needs, including contract disputes, regulatory matters and all areas of labor and employment law.
Before joining Vedder Price, Mr. Salins was a senior associate at Kauff McGuire & Margolis LLP, and he spent five years as an associate in the Labor and Employment Department at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City, during which time 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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Mr. Salins’s numerous litigation victories include the following:
won summary judgment for cable television station in equal pay, sex discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation action brought by a former advertising salesperson;
won FINRA arbitration for investment bank against hedge fund that had used the bank as its prime broker;
won summary judgment for investment bank in equal pay act, sex discrimination and retaliation action brought by a former senior vice president;
won summary judgment for national retail clothing store in FMLA interference and FMLA retaliation action brought by a former store manager;
won summary judgment for a private university in race, ethnicity and religious discrimination and retaliation action brought by a former campus coordinator;
won summary judgment for radio station in pay discrimination case brought by an 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 US 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.
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- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2001
- B.A., University of Michigan, 1998
- New York, 2002
- US District Court, Southern District of New York, 2003
- US District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2003
- US District Court, Western District of New York, 2009
- Member, Committee on Labor and Employment Law of the New York City Bar Association
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