| Biography:
Paul, co-chair of Proskauer’s 150-attorney global Labor and Employment Law Department, is widely recognized as one of the leading U.S. labor and employment lawyers.
Named by Human Resources Executive and Lawdragon magazines as one of the “Nation’s 50 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys,“ Chambers USA consistently ranks him as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” in the employment law field. The Legal 500 calls him “a first class senior partner with excellent advice, excellent business judgment, and a result-focus orientation…” He appears in Best Lawyers in America; New York Super Lawyers; the Guide to the World’s Leading Labour & Employment Lawyers; and other similar publications and rankings. His peers have elected him a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.
Clients that Paul frequently represents include the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations (RAB), as well as many of the individual companies that comprise the New York and national real estate industry; the New York Stock Exchange; MBIA Insurance; and Polo Ralph Lauren.
Paul negotiates major collective bargaining agreements in several industries, including real estate and construction. He tries arbitrations and litigations arising from the collective bargaining relationship. In its 2009 term, the United States Supreme Court will hear one of Paul’s cases, 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett, presenting the issue whether, in collective bargaining, a union and an employer can require employees to arbitrate their statutory employment discrimination claims, rather than having these claims heard in court.
Paul also handles all types of employment litigation, arbitration, and mediation. He spends much of his time providing advice and guidance to clients, counseling employers on how to avoid litigation and achieve their employee relations objectives through such techniques as proactive human resources policies and alternative dispute resolution.
Paul is an honors graduate of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and Cornell Law School. He has served as Chair of the ILR Dean’s Advisory Council (2004-06) and President of the ILR Alumni Association (1995-99). In 2002, ILR awarded Paul the Judge William B. Groat Distinguished Alumni Award, ILR’s highest honor.
An active speaker and writer on labor and employment law issues, Paul has been quoted in, among other publications, The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal; USA Today; and The National Law Journal, and he has appeared on CNN, Fox News and other business television news programs.
Among other groups he works with, Paul serves as a speaker for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), where he served on its National Labor Relations Panel (1994- 2007). He is the longtime Legal Columnist for Human Resource Executive Magazine. Paul served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester, which awarded him and his wife, Pamela, the 2006 John W. Beach Charity Award.
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