Mr Ariel Cudkowicz > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Seyfarth Shaw LLP Offices
TWO SEAPORT LANE
SUITE 300
BOSTON, MA 02210-2028
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
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Mr Ariel Cudkowicz
Work Department
Labor and Employment Department; Employment Litigation & Counseling Practice Group (Co-Chair); Wage & Hour Litigation Practice Group.
Position
Ariel Cudkowicz is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw’s Boston office, serving as the Co-Chair of the firm’s national Employment Litigation & Counseling Practice Group and as Co-Managing Partner of the Boston office. His practice focuses on employment litigation with a particular emphasis on wage and hour collective and class actions, complex single-plaintiff employment discrimination litigation and workplace advice and counseling. He specializes in representing companies in the retail industry in FLSA collective actions, and in the hospitality industry in class actions challenging the distribution of tips and service charges under state and federal laws. He also provides advice to Fortune 100 and 500 corporations on compliance with state and federal wage and hour laws and avoidance of litigation under those laws. Ariel has extensive experience defending single and multi-plaintiff employment discrimination cases brought under federal and state laws and employment-related breach of contract and tort claims. He also has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including arbitration, mediation, conciliation and summary and mini-trials encompassing most substantive areas of employment law.
Career
Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP.
Languages
Italian
Memberships
Member of the following Bars: American Bar Association, Boston Bar Association (Labor and Employment Section), Massachusetts Bar Association (Labor and Employment Section); Fellow, College of Labor & Employment Lawyers (since 2011).
Education
JD, Georgetown University Law Center (1987); BA, University of Rochester (1984).
Leisure
Tennis, biking, hiking & travel
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Government > Government contracts
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious