Joseph L Gordon

JOSEPH L. GORDON is a member of the Employment & Labor and Commercial Litigation practice groups.

Mr. Gordon has extensive experience representing companies and business executives in the health care, financial services and transportation industries. He has successfully defended and prosecuted hundreds of cases before a variety of state and federal courts, arbitration tribunals, and administrative agencies.

His employment practice covers a variety of employment-related litigation, such as cases involving discrimination and retaliation claims, workplace safety issues, and matters involving trade secrets or restrictive covenants. Mr. Gordon also counsels companies on virtually all major employment laws, including the FMLA, Title VII, ERISA, the ADA, the FLSA, and the NLRA, as well as various discrimination and retaliation laws impacting Pennsylvania and New Jersey employers, such as the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination. He also drafts and reviews employment-related documents, such as employment contracts, severance agreements, workplace policies, and employee handbooks. 

His commercial litigation practice focuses on representing companies in business tort, breach of contract, and joint venture disputes. Mr. Gordon, who has an undergraduate degree in finance, has been involved in several joint venture disputes where he has negotiated multi-million dollar sales of ownership interests.

Before entering the private sector, Mr. Gordon worked for the United States Department of Labor as a Trial Attorney. During law school, he had the privilege of representing his school on its National Moot Court and National Student Trial Advocacy teams, and he was inducted into the National Order of the Barristers upon graduation.

Mr. Gordon has been selected for inclusion in the 2016 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star list. He is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Temple American Inn of Court, and the Society for Human Resource Management.