Shira Franco > Davis+Gilbert LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Davis+Gilbert LLP Offices
1675 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NY 10019
NEW YORK
United States
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Shira Franco
Work Department
Labor + Employment
Position
Partner
Career
Shira Franco, a partner in the firm’s Labor + Employment Practice Group, focuses on employment counseling, investigations, and litigation for financial services, technology, and advertising and marketing companies. She helps clients mitigate legal risks as they scale their businesses and provides them with practical guidance on the numerous laws impacting the workplace.
Banks, hedge funds, fintech companies, and other financial services and technology employers call on Shira for day-to-day guidance on workplace issues and depend on her exceptional skill in analyzing and solving personnel challenges. She anticipates the trajectory of legal claims brought by employees and resolves sensitive employment-related issues before they escalate. C-suite executives also call on her to negotiate their employment contracts, severance packages and post-employment restrictions.
When meeting with clients, Shira focuses first on gaining a clear understanding of the client’s business and culture. Then she helps develop legally compliant HR policies and workplace best practices tailored to the client’s specific workforce needs. When disputes arise, she leads investigations of harassment, discrimination and retaliation claims.
A well-prepared and tenacious litigator, she has successfully defended clients in race, age, sex, pregnancy and disability discrimination cases, in wage and hour cases, and in breach of contract disputes involving violations of confidentiality, noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements. From complete victories in employment discrimination lawsuits to winning dismissals of complex employee contract cases, Shira has an impressive record in prevailing for clients in federal and state courts and before federal, state and local administrative agencies.
Memberships
Member, New York City SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management)
Member, 100 Women in Finance
Member, Harvard Law School Women’s Alliance
Education
Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2001)
University of California – Berkeley (A.B., with highest distinction, 1998)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Based in New York, Davis+Gilbert LLP’s labor and employment team offers a wide range of employment counseling services, including conducting investigations and internal audits, creating investigation training programs, and assisting in implementing preventative management procedures. Notably, the firm serves as the national employment counsel for Turner Construction Company, where it oversees the client’s labor obligations as a federal contractor. The practice is jointly led by Gregg Gilman and Daniel A Feinstein. Gilman is national employment counsel for several leading companies in the financial, marketing, communications, and real estate industries. Feinstein represents clients in a wide range of matters, including hiring, sexual harassment, and other types of internal investigations. Jessica Golden Cortes also comes recommended; she focuses on internal investigations of employee complaints. Shira Franco focuses on counseling clients particularly in the technology, healthcare, and financial services sectors. All individuals are based in New York.