David N. Mair

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David N. Mair: Attorney with Kaiser Saurborn & Mair, P.C.
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Biography

For the past twenty years Mr. Mair has focused his practice on representing clients in complex litigation and employment disputes. In the area of employment and partnership litigation, Mr. Mair's clients include senior investment banking, capital markets and other Wall Street professionals, senior executives at private and public companies and lawyers, physicians, accountants and academics at some of the nation's most prominent financial institutions, professional firms, academic institutions and businesses. He also represents executives and professionals in negotiating employment contracts and severance agreements.

Mr. Mair frequently represents both U.S. and foreign executives and professionals in cross-border employment disputes, often working together with foreign law firms to implement joint negotiating and litigation strategies for clients in the financial and other sectors.

Mr. Mair also represents a wide range of businesses and professional firms in complex and high-stakes commercial and business litigation, including representing owners, developers and architects in real estate and construction litigation and arbitrations. Mr. Mair regularly appears before trial courts, appellate courts and arbitral tribunals in the New York City area and across the country.

Mr. Mair graduated with honors in 1989 from the University of Dundee School of Law in Scotland with an LL.B. degree and, in 1991, received an LL.M. (Masters of Law) degree from New York University School of Law. He is admitted to the New York bar and is also admitted to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third and Fourth Circuits and the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York and the Western District of Michigan.

Mr. Mair has been awarded the highest AV Preeminent peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell, one of the country's leading legal directories. He is also a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. His pro bono work has included representation of clients for the Cancer Advocacy Project of the New York City Bar Association.

of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. His pro bono work has included representation of clients for the Cancer Advocacy Project of the New York City Bar Association.

Areas of Practice (27)

  • Employment Law
  • Litigation
  • Civil Litigation
  • Trial Practice
  • Appellate Practice
  • Age Discrimination in Employment
  • Covenants Not To Compete
  • Disability Discrimination
  • Employment Breach of Contract
  • Employment Contracts
  • Employment Disability Discrimination
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Employment Litigation
  • Executive Employment Law
  • Executive Severance Contracts
  • Executive Transfers
  • Family and Medical Leave Act
  • International Employment Contracts
  • Noncompete Litigation
  • Noncompetition and Non-Solicitation
  • Agreements
  • Restrictive Covenants
  • Retaliatory Discharge
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Title VII Discrimination
  • Whistleblower Litigation
  • Wrongful Termination

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
University of Dundee, Diploma in Legal Practice, 1990; New York University School of Law, LL.M. in International Law, 1991
Law School Attended:
University of Dundee Law School, Dundee, Scotland, LL.B., with first class honors, 1989
Year of First Admission:
1992
Admission:
1992, New York; 1992, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1992, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1993, U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2000, U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York; 2012, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
Memberships:
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State and American Bar Associations; National Employment Lawyers Association.
Birth Information:
Glasgow, Scotland, November 22, 1967
ISLN:
901025492

Peer Reviews

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David successfully extracted me out of a tricky employment and equity partnership dispute. Among the multiple attorneys that have looked at my case, only David was able to find a unique angle that gai...

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917-814-3099  Phone

212-338-9088  Fax

www.ksmlaw.com

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