Mr. Leonard's practice focuses on employment litigation and workplace counseling matters for large and small companies, with a particular focus on hospitality, retail, skincare/fragrance/beauty, financial services, technology, advertising/entertainment/media, and professional services industries (among others).

He has extensive experience defending a myriad of employment discrimination, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), public accommodation, restrictive covenant (both prosecution and defense) matters as well as individual, collective and class action wage and hour litigations in various federal, state, and local courts and arbitration venues. Additionally, Mr. Leonard routinely represents clients before administrative and other governmental agencies including the EEOC, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, New York Department of Labor, New York State Division of Human Rights and the New York City Commission on Human Rights.

His practice also routinely includes conducting prompt independent employee investigations. Mr. Leonard also presents various trainings on discrimination & harassment avoidance, progressive discipline, conflict de-escalation, client/customer sensitivity, and investigation best practices. He further advises companies preventatively on a wide range of employment laws such as the FMLA, ADA, ADEA, WARN, FLSA, NLRA and Title VII, as well as local and state laws.

Mr. Leonard regularly counsels private equity and other M&A stakeholders with respect to labor and employment compliance, diligence, and agreement terms (including for buyers, sellers, and individual executives).