Greenberg Traurig LLP

Labor & Employment

Shareholder

Jerrold F. Goldberg Co-Chairs the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice’s Labor-Management Relations group. He has been practicing in virtually all aspects of labor and employment law since 1979, including the traditional labor/union-management area, employment discrimination, executive employment, severance agreements and wage and hour laws. Jerry exclusively represents management clients primarily in the real estate and hospitality industries in transactional matters, including commercial and residential building and hotel sales and purchases, administrative compliance, such as 421-a prevailing wage issues, and lease, property management and concessionaire relationships, as well as all aspects of labor and employment litigation. This includes traditional labor litigation, such as union management arbitration, N.L.R.B. representation and unfair labor practice proceedings, and strike and picketing injunctive actions, wage and hour litigation involving misclassification, overtime and service charge/gratuity issues, and employment discrimination and restrictive covenant litigation in federal and state courts and administrative agencies.

ConcentrationsReal estate transactional issuesCollective bargaining negotiations and arbitrationEEO litigationDrafting of employment agreements/severance and release agreements/non-compete and non-solicit agreementsWage and hour litigation

CapabilitiesLabor & Employment Labor-Management Relations Real Estate Operations ADA, Accessibility, Building & Life Safety CodesRetailSports Facilities & Entertainment Venues Education

Admission to PracticeNew York

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J.D., New York University School of Law, 1979 B.S., School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1976