Alan M. Koral
Shareholder
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Chair, Labor and Employment Law Practice, New York Office
Alan M. Koral is a Vedder Price Shareholder and heads the firm’s Labor and Employment practice area in the New York office. He represents and counsels domestic and international corporations with respect to litigation matters, administrative hearings and investigations, as well as general employment and labor law.
Mr. Koral has written and lectured extensively on labor and employment law matters. He has written numerous articles and is the author of two books, Conducting the Lawful Employment Interview (4th ed. 1992) and Employee Privacy Rights (1988), and has edited Chapter 7 (on religious discrimination) of the second edition of Schlei & Grossman’s Employment Discrimination Law (1983).
In 1985, Mr. Koral was appointed by Governor Mario Cuomo to the New York State Human Rights Advisory Council, and was later appointed by Governor Pataki to the New York Human Rights 50th Anniversary Advisory Committee. He serves on the Advisory Committee for labor and employment programs of the Practising Law Institute and the National Advisory Board of the Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal.
Mr. Koral was Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, 2008–2009, and has been a member of the Section’s Executive Committee for many years. He is currently co-chair of the International Employment Law Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association and is also a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Law Committee of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section. In 2011, Mr. Koral was appointed Vice Chair of the American Bar Association’s International Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Network and reappointed as a member of the Steering Group of the American Bar Association’s International Litigation Committee. He was also appointed as Liaison Officer of the International Bar Association’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Working Group within the International Bar Association’s Discrimination Law Committee.
Mr. Koral is a Fellow of the American College of Labor and Employment Law and is a member of the Board of Visitors of the CUNY School of Law and St. John’s University Law School Labor and Employment Law Board of Advisors. Mr. Koral was selected for inclusion from 2006 to 2011 in New York Super Lawyers. He is also listed in Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who. For 15 consecutive years, Mr. Koral has received an "AV Preeminent" Peer Rating in Martindale-Hubbell. The Legal 500 United States guide recommends Mr. Koral in the Labor and Employment—Workplace and Employment Counseling category.
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- J.D., University of Chicago, 1975, Associate Editor, The University of Chicago Law Review
- Illinois, 1975
- New York, 1977
- US District Court, Northern District of Illinois (including Trial Bar), 1975
- US District Court, Southern District of New York, 1977
- US District Court, Northern District of New York, 1981
- US District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1981
- US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1987
- US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1990
- US Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1995
- US Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1995
Co-Chair, International Employment Law Committee, American Bar Association International Law Section
Member, Equal Employment Opportunity Law Committee, American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section
Member, Executive Committee, New York State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section
Vice Chair, American Bar Association, International Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Network
Member, Steering Group, American Bar Association International Litigation Committee
Liaison Officer, International Bar Association, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Working Group (within the International Bar Association’s Discrimination Law Committee)
Member, National Advisory Board, Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal
- Member, Advisory Committee, Practising Law Institute
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