Florence T. Frazer

FLORENCE T. FRAZER received her Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law and her B.A. (cum laude) from Hofstra University. Ms. Frazer is admitted to practice law in the State Courts of New York, the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the Court of Federal Claims, and the Northern, Southern and Eastern District Courts of New York. Following graduation from law school, she was appointed Assistant Counsel, and later Assistant Director, to the Governor's Office of Employee Relations where her responsibilities included serving as chief negotiator for the Governor in collective bargaining with the statewide CSEA-Administrative Services Unit (comprised of approximately 39,000 clerical employees statewide in 36 state agencies), administering collective bargaining agreements; handling grievance and arbitration matters for bargaining units as diverse as the New York State Police and the United University Professions. Since entering private practice, she has continued to concentrate her practice in the areas of public sector labor law and education law, including staff and student disciplinary matters and handling the full range of labor matters on behalf of clients, including collective bargaining, mediation and fact finding; grievance and arbitration matters; improper practice charges, management/confidential petitions and representation matters before the Public Employment Relations Board. She has also represented clients in New York State and federal courts, administrative hearings before the Nassau County Civil Service Commission, New York State Division of Human Rights, Department of Labor, and the Workers' Compensation Board. She is a member of the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association Labor Law Section, the former Chairperson of the Education Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association and a Past President of the New York State Association of School Attorneys. She has been recognized annually by Pulse magazine as one of Long Island’s Top Legal Eagles in the field of Education Law for the period of 2010-2017 and as a “Legal Leader - New York Area’s Top Rated Lawyers” of 2013-2017 in the fields of education and labor law. In 2016, she was also recognized by New York Magazine as : "Women Leaders in the Law" in Education Law, Employment Law and Special Education Law.