Stephen D. Hans

I was a new business owner with less than two years experience. He took my case, worked with my financial issues, prepped me adequately for my testimony and fought against the nastiest defense from the state like a champ. We won against the dept of Labor and the decision has helped me when the dept of Labor brought up the issue again on a another business I opened five years later. Issue was cleared up with a five minute phone call. The decision was so clear the first time around, they didn't want to pursue that issue with me again!

As the publisher of The Queens Ledger and several other newspapers in Queens County for more than 30-years I have extensive first-hand experience with labor attorneys. I am well aware of the excellent legal representation that Stephen D. Hans & Associates provides on employment law issues to small and mid-size businesses. His staff is superb and their knowledge of employment law in the defense of businesses is absolutely outstanding. This is a firm that cares and knows what they are doing. We use them as a reliable resource for stories quite often.

I have been a practicing dentist for over 14 years, and one the biggest challenges that any dentist has is managing employees and all HR related issues. Stephen Hans came in and ironed out all my issues from HR Compliance and even provided us with a detailed handbook. He treated my practice as his own and is always quick to respond to all our legal needs. I would highly recommend Mr Hans to all my colleagues for their legal needs.

As President of the NYC Car Wash Owners Association, I am aware that Mr. Hans has represented many car wash owners in the New York area at the NYS Department of Labor as well as the federal courts in private lawsuits. His firm was diligent, experienced and most of all, he was able to reduce the Department of Labor wage assessment imposed by that agency upon the business. Also, his firm knows how to resolve those federal lawsuits quickly and efficiently. He has proven to be an experienced and talented employment defense firm and many of our members have been fully protected by his firm.

I own a restaurant and was sued I hired Stephen Hans to represent my business and he did a fantastic job. He was able to resolve the law suit without litigation(saving me bundles of money) . the settlement was very good and it wrapped up in two months. I highly reccommend this lawfirm anytime you need an Employment Attorney for your Business

Stephen D. Hans and Associates are excellent Employment Defense Attorneys. I hired the firm to assist me with my Business employee issues and the service that was provided to me far exceeded my expectations. The Attorneys at the firm are very knowledgeable in the area of Employee issues and were very helpful. They returned all my phone calls and were available to assist me with my legal matters that I would highly recommend this law firm. It's a great comfort knowing I hired a competent firm as Stephen D. Hans to handle all my employee issues so i can continue to run my business. A great big shinning Star for this law office!

We hired him to reduce a DOL issue we had for an employee. Let me tell you that Mr. Hans is arrogant and he didn't do any work whatsoever. I provided him the time sheets, and analyzed the entire data set. All he did was pass it on to the agent. I could have done that myself. He didn't even try to reduce the damages. I reached out to the agent and got other concessions to reduce my exposures. He took over a month to get me back a simple employment contract for a separate issue. He doesn't remember any of the conversations he has and you have to constantly repeat and follow up with him. Basically I paid him for nothing. I could have saved that money, since I did all the work anyways. I work with Attorney's all the time, and he's by far the worst.