Emily E. Friedman

Emily Friedman specializes in Employment Counseling and Employment Litigation. Before joining Mazursky Constantine, Emily was an associate in the Employment Litigation Practice Group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York. Emily’s practice is focused exclusively on employment law and ERISA and includes the following:

• Providing advice and counsel to companies in a wide range of industries on all aspects of employment law and human resources issues, including matters dealing with employee benefits, internal investigations, administrative investigations, compliance with various federal and state labor and employment laws, employee separation and discipline, restrictive covenants, and discrimination issues;
• Drafting and negotiating separation agreements, employment agreements and offer letters, and formulating and revising employee policies, manuals and workplace codes of conduct. Emily also has conducted various training sessions for companies which have addressed best practices for compliance with various state and federal labor and employment laws; and
• Defending employers in a variety of complex employment law matters and administrative proceedings involving issues such as discrimination, sexual harassment, wage violations and practices, compliance with various state labor laws, trade secrets, defamation, wrongful termination, restrictive covenants, breach of contract, ERISA and malicious prosecution. Emily also has wide-ranging experience in defending class action litigations which have included discrimination and ERISA claims.

Emily has written on a broad range of employment law-related topics including the obligation to provide religious accommodations under Title VII and state law, Title VII’s anti-retaliation provisions, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, discrimination claims brought under the New York City Human Rights Law, and New York state wage issues.