Mr William P. Perkins > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Mr William P. Perkins

(212) 218-4642 wperkins@seyfarth.com

Work Department

Labor and Employment Department; Employment Litigation and Counseling Practice Group; Labor and Employee Relations Practice Group; OFCCP & Affirmative Action Compliance Practice Group.

Position

Bill Perkins is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s New York office where he conducts a nation-wide practice advising clients on a wide variety of employment and labor law matters, including all forms of discrimination and harassment claims, and proactive measures to avoid such claims, reductions-in-force, OWBPA/WARN compliance, wage and hour claims, pay equity issues, contract negotiations, executive employment agreements, affirmative action plan design and OFCCP compliance review defense, executive employment contracts, FMLA/ADA issues, day-to-day advice and counsel, as well as human resources policies.

Career

Prior to joining Seyfarth Shaw, Bill practiced labor and employment law as a partner at two major New York law firms and served as General Attorney at both the National Broadcasting Company, Inc. and Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. with responsibility for labor and employment law matters.

Languages

English.

Memberships

Bill has maintained a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review rating of “A/V Preeminent” since 2000. He has been listed by Legal 500 since 2009 and recognized as a Leading Lawyer by Legal 500 since 2013. He was inducted into the Legal 500 Hall of Fame in 2017. He has been endorsed by the Labour and Employee Benefits, Leading Lawyers Worldwide Handbook and recognized as a New York Area Top Rated Lawyer by ALM since 2012. Bill has been listed as a Super Lawyer since 2014 and named one of the Top 100 Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys since 2015 by Human Resource Executive and Lawdragon. He is admitted in the federal and state courts of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire.

Education

JD, Western New England University School of Law (1980), cum laude; BS, Marietta College (1967).

Leisure

Sailing.