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Employment Law in Northern and Central New Jersey
On December 20, 2011, Christopher Lenzo participated on a panel that presented a seminar entitled “Employment Discrimination – Pretrial to Verdict” for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Mr. Lenzo spoke about discovery issues in employment discrimination litigation.
On December 9, 2011, Glen Savits and Christopher Lenzo participated on a panel that presented a seminar entitled “Labor and Employment Issues for the Corporate and In-House Attorney” for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Mr. Savits spoke about providing reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities. Mr. Lenzo spoke about the worst mistakes that employers can make in handling employment law issues.
On November 1, 2011, US News & World Report listed Green, Savits & Lenzo as one of the Best Law Firms in the country for the second year in a row. The firm was recognized for representing individuals in employment law matters, including labor and employment law litigation.
On October 14, 2011, Jon Green, Glen Savits and Christopher Lenzo spoke at the Annual Conference of the New Jersey Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association. Mr. Green spoke about case selection; Mr. Savits discussed discovery issues; and Mr. Lenzo addressed post-trial motions.
On October 6, 2011, Glen Savits was featured in an article for ABC.com concerning a class action lawsuit against Texas Roadhouse restaurants, who allegedly discriminated against job applicants because of their age. See the full article at: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/texas-roadhouse-sued-age-discrimination/story?id=14675436
On September 20, 2011, Glen Savits and Christopher Lenzo participated on a panel that presented a seminar entitled “Labor and Employment Issues for the Corporate and In-House Attorney” for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Mr. Savits spoke about providing reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities. Mr. Lenzo spoke about the worst mistakes that employers can make in handling employment law issues.
In September 2011, Christopher Lenzo and Claudia Reis were appointed to the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Mr. Lenzo will serve as one of the Executive Committee’s Coordinators for its Model Jury Charges Subcommittee and Ms. Reis will serve as one of the Executive Committee’s Coordinators for its Employee Benefits Law Subcommittee.
In September 2011, Christopher Lenzo was selected by his peers in the labor and employment law bar to be included in the Best Lawyers in America for the seventh year in a row.*
On July 11, 2011, Christopher Lenzo spoke at a seminar entitled “Labor and Employment Law Summer Institute” for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Mr. Lenzo discussed employment discrimination law basics.
On June 29, 2011, Jon Green was a speaker for the webinar , “Whistleblowing, Retaliation and Free Speech in the Age of Facebook and Twitter” sponsored by the New Jersey State Bar’s Labor and Employment Section. Mr. Green presented the legal issues that attorneys who represent employees should know when employees communicate through social media and the effects of their comments on potential employment claims.
On June 17, 2011, Christopher Lenzo and Claudia Reis spoke at a seminar entitled “Hot Tips in Labor and Employment Law” for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Mr. Lenzo spoke about independent psychiatric examinations of plaintiffs in employment law cases and discovery of plaintiff’s medical records in employment law cases. Ms. Reis discussed a recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision.
On May 25, 2011, Glen Savits and Christopher Lenzo participated on a panel that presented a seminar entitled “Labor and Employment Issues for the Corporate and In-House Attorney” for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Mr. Savits spoke about providing reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities. Mr. Lenzo spoke about the worst mistakes that employers can make in handling employment law issues.
On April 9, 2011, Jon Green was a seminar panelist regarding ethical issues that may arise when seeking to obtain an employer’s relevant electronic documents such as emails and their attachments. The seminar was entitled, “Ethical Challenges in the New World of E-Discovery”. The seminar took place in New Orleans, LA as part of the annual meeting for the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section.
On March 26, 2011, Christopher Lenzo presented mock oral argument before United States District Court Judge Daniel Dominguez as part of a panel on the use of expert witnesses regarding workplace investigations at the Midwinter Meeting of the Employment Rights and Responsibilities Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association.
The March 2011 publication of the New Jersey Labor And Employment Law Quarterly featured articles by each of Jon Green, Glen Savits, and Claudia Reis. Mr. Green’s article is entitled Are Contingency Fee Enhancements Under New Jersey Attorney Fee-Shifting Statutes An Endangered Species? and addresses two recent Appellate Division decisions that cast doubt on fee enhancements in cases brought under the Law Against Discrimination. Mr. Savits’ article is entitled It’s Not My Job: Job Restructuring As A Reasonable Accommodation, which discusses, in part, the 2007 Supreme Court of New Jersey case Raspa v. Sheriff of County of Gloucester. Ms. Reis’s article is entitled Court Strikes A Nerve After Trying To Strike A Balance and discusses the recent Supreme Court of New Jersey case Quinlan v. Curtiss-Wright Corporation, which addresses to what extent employees are engaged in protected conduct when they take and disclose solely to their attorneys confidential employer information in the context of prosecuting their Law Against Discrimination claim.
In March 2011, Jon Green, and Christopher Lenzo were once again selected as New Jersey Super Lawyers in the fields of Employment & Labor Law and Employment Litigation for Plaintiff’s through a poll of New Jersey lawyers conducted by New Jersey Monthly magazine and the publisher Law & Politics. The New Jersey Super Lawyers are featured in the April 2011 edition of New Jersey Monthly.*
In March 2011, Claudia Reis was once again selected as a Rising Star in the fields of Employment and Labor Law and Employment Litigation for Plaintiffs in New Jersey Monthly Magazine. Ms. Reis was selected as a Rising Star in a poll of New Jersey lawyers conducted by New Jersey Monthly Magazine and the publisher Law & Politics. This is the sixth year in a row in which Ms. Reis was selected for this honor.*
On February 9, 2011, Christopher Lenzo participated on a panel that presented a seminar entitled “Keys to Drafting and Enforcing Restrictive Covenants and Non-Compete Agreements” for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
In January 2011, Christopher Lenzo settled a gender discrimination and retaliatory discharge case he brought against Ramapo College of New Jersey on behalf of two female former coaches for $650,000.
On December 2, 2010, the Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed an Appellate Division decision and re-instated a more than $9.1 million dollar verdict in favor of a Human Resources Director who sued her former employer for gender discrimination and retaliation. Claudia Reis submitted an amicus (friend of the court) brief on behalf of the National Employment Lawyers Association of New Jersey, which brief was written by Ms. Reis, Jon Green, and Glen Savits. The position advocated in the brief was that the Court adopt a balancing test to determine when employees are entitled to legal protections for providing confidential company documents to their attorneys in connection with discrimination, harassment or retaliation claims. While the parties and the other organizations appearing as amicus proposed bright-line rules, the Supreme Court of New Jersey adopted a balancing test that incorporated the factors suggested by the Green, Savits & Lenzo attorneys in the amicus brief. This decision is an important one for employees across the State of New Jersey because it makes clear that employees do not necessarily lose the protections under the Law Against Discrimination for sharing certain confidential company information with their attorneys.
*No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. For Martindale-Hubbell methodology, see www.martindale.com. For Super Lawyers and Rising Stars methodology, see www.superlawyers.com. For Best Lawyers methodology, see www.bestlawyers.com. For Best Law Firms methodology, see www.bestlawfirms.usnews.com.
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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.
