Attorney Douglas H. Wigdor's Legal Cases

Discrimination

Ernestine Grant and Marjorie Walker v. The New York Times et al.

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OUTCOME: Pending in SDNY

Wigdor LLP represents Plaintiffs and Class Representatives Marjorie Walker and Ernestine Grant in a class action against The New York Times Company, its President and CEO Mark Thompson, and Executive V ... ice President and Chief Revenue Officer Meredith Levien for fostering “an environment rife with discrimination based on age, race, and gender.” The lawsuit, filed on April 28, 2016 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that the two Plaintiffs, both of whom are Black female employees in their 60s who work in the Times’s Advertising division, suffered various forms of discriminatory conduct by Times management, including being “denied the opportunities to earn as much as [their] younger white peers because of [their] age, race and/or gender.” As a class action, the lawsuit seeks to secure relief for similarly situated older, minority and/or female current and former employees of the Times’s Advertising division to redress Defendants’ unlawful employment practices and discriminatory barriers to advancement.

Employment and labor

Nielsen v. The Clarkes' Group, L.L.C. et al

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OUTCOME: Settlement

Wigdor LLP formerly represented a bartender at P.J. Clarke’s in a class action alleging that the restaurant engaged in unlawful wage payment practices and misrepresented employee income to the Internal ... Revenue Service.

Class action

Brown v. Macy's Inc. et al

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OUTCOME: Settlement

Wigdor LLP reached a settlement in principle on behalf of our clients in a case against Macy’s alleging racial profiling of customers.

Wrongful termination

Giraldo v. The Change Group New York Inc. et al

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OUTCOME: Settlement

Wigdor LLP represented Gerald Giraldo, a former sales consultant at The Change Group, an international currency exchange company. As alleged in the Complaint, Mr. Giraldo was terminated after making ... an anonymous email complaint of widespread discrimination, sexual harassment and unlawful retaliation by management. Later on the same day, Mr. Giraldo received a response to the email that said “Game Over” and indicated that it was believed that he was the author of the anonymous complaint. He was fired shortly thereafter.

Sexual harassment

Danielle Pecile and Cristina Culicea v. Titan Capital Group, LLC et al

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OUTCOME: Pending SDNY

The Firm currently represents Danielle Pecile and Cristina Culicea in their sexual harassment and retaliation claims against their former employer Titan Capital Group and Epstein Becker & Green – their ... former counsel. The complaint details the harassing conduct of Marc and Russell Abrams which include Ms. Pecile and Ms. Culicea being subjected to nude photographs of Sandra Abrams – the wife of Russell Abrams as well as explicit threats made by Marc Abrams.

Securities and investment fraud

Jennifer Sharkey v. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. et al

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OUTCOME: Pending SDNY

The Firm has filed a federal complaint on behalf of a former executive at JPMorgan Chase. As alleged in the complaint, the former executive was fired after she blew the whistle about possible violation ... s of various federal securities and anti-money laundering laws.

Securities and investment fraud

Gary DeDilectis v. Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. et al

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OUTCOME: Settlement

The Firm formerly represented a former Director at Deutsche Bank in a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower lawsuit that alleges he was terminated in retaliation for complaining to senior management about tax o ... vercharges to clients and systemic problems with the Bank’s trading systems and reconciliation processes, which put the Bank at critical risk of liability for client losses and legal violations.

Class action

Tara Raniere et al v. Citigroup Inc. et al

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OUTCOME: Pending in SDNY

Landmark wage and hour case contesting collective action waiver in FLSA cases. The Firm represents current and former Home Lending Specialists, Loan Consultants, and other similar mortgage lending spe ... cialist employees against CitiMortgage Inc. and other related entities (“Citi”) for their failure to pay overtime compensation over the last six years. On November 22, 2011, the Court denied Citi’s attempt to dismiss the case, denied Citi’s attempt to compel arbitration, and granted Plaintiffs’ motion for conditional certification of a collective action against Citi.

Discrimination

Kelly Voelker v. Deutsche Bank AG

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OUTCOME: Pending in SDNY

The Firm currently represents Kelley Voelker, a former Vice President at Deutsche Bank, who was fired after filing a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit. Ms. Voelker’s lawsuit, which received press attent ... ion and notoriety when it was first filed in federal court details her efforts to break through the Bank’s glass ceiling, overcome "mommy-tracking," and obtain a long-overdue promotion. After being told that nobody in her group would be affected by the layoffs at the Bank, Ms. Voelker was informed, after she complained just weeks prior about further retaliation, that she is the only employee among the approximately 500 employees to be affected as part of this supposedly wide-ranging reduction in force.

Douglas H. Wigdor's Legal Cases (19)

Ernestine Grant and Marjorie Walker v. The New York Times et al.

Nielsen v. The Clarkes' Group, L.L.C. et al

Brown v. Macy's Inc. et al

Giraldo v. The Change Group New York Inc. et al

Danielle Pecile and Cristina Culicea v. Titan Capital Group, LLC et al

Jennifer Sharkey v. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. et al

Gary DeDilectis v. Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. et al

Tara Raniere et al v. Citigroup Inc. et al

Kelly Voelker v. Deutsche Bank AG