Claudia A. Reis joined the firm of Green, Savits & Lenzo, LLC as an associate in 2007.  Ms. Reis has devoted her legal career to the practice of employment law.  While she previously defended and counseled large and small corporate clients as well as governmental agencies on various employment issues, she now focuses her career on representing individuals who have been subjected to unlawful and/or otherwise wrongful workplace conduct.  Ms. Reis credits her prior experience of defending and counseling employees with her ability to assess clients and cases from the minute they enter our offices.  This ability enables Ms. Reis to (1) anticipate, strategize, and maneuver around defense counsel tactics and (2) advocate more aggressively on behalf of her clients by being more proactive and anticipating the typical methods used by defense attorneys to stall litigation and/or otherwise intimidate their clients' former employees. 

Throughout her career, Ms. Reis has developed a personalized approach to the practice of law.  This approach requires that she spend sufficient time with each client so as to understand his/her work environment, job duties, situation, needs, desires, drives, strengths, weaknesses, and damages.  Accordingly, Ms. Reis's professional relationships foster interaction  and trust that enable open, frank and honest discussions that serve her clients' needs in the most efficient, economic, personal, and direct manner. 

Ms. Reis's practice includes all aspects of employment law, including sexual harassment, discrimination (relating to sex, age, race, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, impermissible gender stereotyping, pregnancy and disability), retaliation, and claims relating to both state and federal leave acts and wage and hour laws.  In addition, Ms. Reis provides clients with advice on various employment matters, including, but not limited to, employees' expectation of privacy in the workplace.  She also routinely reviews, revises, drafts, and provides advice regarding severance agreements, agreements to arbitrate, settlement agreements and releases, and personnel handbooks.  Throughout the years, she has also successfully tried cases, represented clients in various administrative forums, worked on numerous appeals, and represented clients in mediations and negotiations that were court-ordered, private, and/or required by administrative agencies. 

Ms. Reis is a 2001 graduate of Rutgers School of Law - Newark, and a 1995 graduate of Rutgers College.  While at Rutgers School of Law, she was a teaching assistant for the legal research and writing program as well as a Notes and Comments Editor for the Computer & Technology Law Journal. 

Ms. Reis is a member of the Labor & Employment Sections of the American Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar Association.  She is also a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (state and federal), the Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court, New Jersey Women's Lawyers Association, Meadowlands Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Executive Women's Golf Association (Northern New Jersey).

In 2005, Ms. Reis also co-taught a Negotiations class at Seton Hall University with the esteemed Lee E. Miller.