Ogletree Deakins Maintains Swift Growth in New York City with Addition of Shareholder Brian Gershengorn

NEW YORK CITY – July 1, 2013 – Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome Brian Gershengorn as a shareholder in its New York City office. Gershengorn joins Ogletree Deakins from Proskauer Rose LLP, where he practiced in the firm’s Labor & Employment Law Department. The fourth shareholder to join Ogletree Deakins’ New York City office in 2013, Gershengorn represents clients in the hospitality, financial services, sports, entertainment, educational, and retail industries.

“Brian is an amazing attorney with an impressive labor and employment practice that includes handling numerous wage and hour individual, class and collective actions, as well as labor arbitrations. In addition, he has successfully tried two wage and hour cases in federal court in the last 16 months, serving as co-lead counsel in one of those cases” said Kim Ebert, managing shareholder of Ogletree Deakins. “In particular, he is very skilled at helping clients navigate and defend wage and hour litigation, which is experiencing a dramatic increase nationally and is especially prevalent in New York.”  

Beyond his wage and hour class and collective action experience, Gershengorn focuses his practice on the representation of employers in employment discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful discharge, defamation, breach of contract, tip-pooling, meal and rest breaks, misclassification, and off-the-clock allegations. He also regularly counsels employers on compliance with anti-discrimination laws, wage and hour laws, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act, among others, as well as the management of personnel problems, workplace investigations, and employee handbooks. Gershengorn’s traditional labor experience includes union representation elections, unfair labor practice cases, collective bargaining, and labor arbitrations. Gershengorn earned his J.D., cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School and earlier received his B.S. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.

About Ogletree Deakins

Ogletree Deakins is one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management in all types of employment-related legal matters. The firm has more than 650 lawyers located in 44 offices across the United States and in Europe. Ogletree Deakins was named “Law Firm of the Year” in both the Litigation – Labor & Employment and the Employment Law – Management categories in the 2013 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” list. In addition to handling labor and employment law matters, the firm has thriving practices focused on business immigration, employee benefits, and workplace safety and health law. Ogletree Deakins represents a diverse range of clients, including more than half of the Fortune 50 corporations in the United States. For more information, please contact Ryan King or Mary Lou Baxter.