Claudia A. Reis

Serving Morristown, New Jersey and Surrounding Areas

Claudia A. Reis joined the firm of Green, Savits & Lenzo, LLC as an associate in 2007 and became a partner in January 2010.  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 employers 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 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 embraces all aspects of employment law, including sexual harassment, discrimination (relating to sex, age, race, sexual orientation, national origin, familial status, domestic partnership status, religion, impermissible gender stereotyping, sex gender identity or expression,  pregnancy, disability, liability for services in the Armed Forces), 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 Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, for which she currently serves as the Managing Editor of the Labor & Employment Quarterly, and she is also a member of the American Bar Association. Ms. Reis also serves on the Board of Directors, as the Secretary, and Amicus Committee Co-Chair for the National Employment Lawyers Association-New Jersey (NELA-NJ) and is also a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (federal). She also serves on the Program Committee of the Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court and the Co-Director for Public Policy of the New Jersey Women’s Lawyers Association.

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

Areas of Practice:

Employment Litigation

Employment Discrimination

Sexual Harassment

Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA/New Jersey Whistle-Blower Law)

Federal Family and Medical Leave Act and State Family Leave Act

Federal Fair Labor Standards Act

State Wage and Hour Law

Equal Pay Act

Prevailing Wage Act

New Jersey Wage Payment Law

New Jersey Wage Collection Act

Expectations of Privacy in the Workplace

Severance Agreements (Drafting, Reviewing, and Negotiating)

Employee Handbooks (Drafting, Reviewing, and Revising)

Counseling and Training (Anti-Harassment, Diversity, and CEPA)

Bar Admissions:

New Jersey, 2001

U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 2002

Education:

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law – Newark, Newark, New Jersey, 2001
J.D.
Honors: Teaching Assistant for the Legal Research and Writing Program
Honors: Teaching Assistant for Constitutional Law Class
Law Journal: Computer and Technology Law Journal, Notes

and Comments Editor 

Rutgers College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1995
B.A.

Published Works:

Get rid of all those dirty Jews, N.J. Lawyer, Supp. at 5, May 28, 2007

 

Reported Cases:

Rost v. Pfizer, Inc., 248 F.R.D. 417 (S.D.N.Y. 2008)
Cutler v. Dorn, 196 N.J. 419 (2008)

Classes/Seminars Taught:

Adjunct Professor (Co-Teacher), Undergraduate Negotiations Class, Seton Hall University 

Honors and Awards:*

New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Law & Politics and New Jersey Monthly, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010

Professional Associations and Memberships:

American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section, 2002 – Present

Member 

New Jersey State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section, 2001 – Present

Managing Editor for Labor & Employment Quarterly

National Employment Lawyers Association-New Jersey, 2006 – Present

Secretary, Amicus Committee Co-Chair, Member of the Board of Directors

Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court, 2002 – Present

Barrister, Program Committee Member

New Jersey Women’s Lawyers Association, 2006 – Present
Co-Director of Public Policy

Languages:

Portuguese

Spanish 

Birth Information:

Lisbon, Portugal

Our employment law firm proudly serves all of Northern and Central New Jersey, including the communities of Morristown, Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, Edison, Woodbridge, Trenton, and Princeton, and the Counties of Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren.