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Jeffrey P. Englander

Partner & Co-Chair, Labor & Employment
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Jeffrey P. Englander Partner & Co-Chair, Labor & Employment

As co-chair of Morrison Cohen’s Labor and Employment Law Department, Jeff has provided sage advice, counsel and representation to an incredibly broad swath of clientele for almost half a century. He has consummate experience in litigating employment discrimination matters before federal and state courts as well as federal, state and local administrative agencies charged with investigating and remediating discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims. Clients look to Jeff to handle their matters before federal, state and local agencies charged with enforcement of wage and hour, occupational safety and labor laws, as well as virtually all others involving regulation of the workplace. Unlike most of his comparators in the field, however, he is also a seasoned practitioner in all aspects of traditional labor-management relations having practiced extensively before the National Labor Relations Board, including full evidentiary hearings with respect to representational matters and unfair labor practice trials.  

Jeff routinely counsels clients with respect to a wide range of employment-related issues, including terminations, downsizing, plant closings, and internal investigations of employee misconduct and is regularly called upon to supervise or conduct such investigations where allegations of sexual harassment or other workplace irregularities have been asserted. He has negotiated and drafted innumerable severance agreements and each year concludes a large number of significant settlements on behalf of high placed executives. As an advisor to employers and their HR Departments, Jeff has utilized role play as a training tool and a means of improving Firm clients’ ability to interact with their workforces to achieve statutory compliance, assist in internal investigations and succeed in the process of cooperative dialogues with staff members who may require reasonable accommodations in order to work to maximum effectiveness.

Having begun his career in the practice of "traditional" labor law, Jeff has considerable experience in practice before the National Labor Relations Board and in all facets of effective labor-management relations, including contract and grievance administration, arbitration of labor disputes, and preventative labor relations. He has been trial counsel in innumerable proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, successfully defending employers in unfair labor practice trials as well as in connection with every conceivable facet of the litigation of questions concerning representation, including decertification of bargaining representatives and unit clarification. For many years, he has represented a significant number of interstate and local transportation companies in connection with such issues.

Jeff is a strong advocate of alternative dispute resolution, which he has successfully utilized on behalf of numerous Firm clients in court-sponsored as well as private mediations.  He is a frequent contributor and lecturer on a variety of workplace issues. An avid and accomplished photographer with several shows to his credit, Mr. Englander's photographs may be found hanging in the Firm's common areas.

Jeff was an intern Law Clerk to Hon. Jack B. Weinstein, U.S.D.J., E.D.N.Y., in 1974, and began his career with the firm of Friedlander, Gaines, Cohen & Rosenberg, LLP, first as an associate and from 1981 as a partner.

Experience

  • Routinely obtains dismissal of employment discrimination and retaliation claims against employer clients as filed with federal and local administrative agencies.
  • Obtained the decertification of a union as a bargaining agent for employees of the largest domestic manufacturer of specialty garments.
  • Obtained NLRB reversal of claimed unfair labor practice charges underlying a union's organizational efforts.
  • Routinely obtains favorable terms and conditions of employment for a variety of local and national manufacturing, transportation, hospitality and real estate managers in the labor agreements with local unions of nationally recognized labor organizations.  
  • Obtained dismissal or favorable settlement of contract and statutory whistleblower claims.   
  • Counseled management clients in advantageous terms and conditions of significant reduction in force and corresponding layoffs.   
  • Defeated summary judgment claims of a client's purported service provider.   
  • Repeatedly obtained dismissal in Federal District Court on summary judgment of wide ranging employment discrimination and unlawful retaliations claims.   
  • Successful defense of claims asserting an executive's alleged failure to accommodate employees before the New York City Commission on Human Rights.   
  • Obtained dismissal of discrimination claims lodged against a residential building owner with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.   
  • Represents a world renowned orchestra in all phases of its labor-management relations and employment matters.    
  • Routinely represents dozens of executives leaving employment with world renowned payment network processor over the course of  more than 35 years.    
  • Provides regular employment advice and counsel to hundreds of mid-sized transportation, luxury brand, healthcare, retail and service provider clients.
  • Serves as advisor to staff counsel and editor of motion practice documentation and client alerts.

Professional Activities

Member, New York State Governor's Human Rights Advisory Council
Member, Board of Directors, The New York Pops
Member, Section on Labor and Employment Law, American and New York State Bar Associations

Recognition

Martindale-Hubbell® - AV Rated

Hofstra University School of Law

  • Research Editor, Hofstra Law Review
  • Recognized by the Law Faculty as the School’s "Outstanding Law Graduate – 1975"
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Education

  • Hofstra University School of Law, J.D., Law Review
  • City University of New York, Queens College, B.A.

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Southern and Northern Districts of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

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