Jules L. Smith

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Jules L. Smith: Attorney with Blitman & King LLP
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  • Suite 120, 207 High Point Drive, Victor, NY 14564
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  • Jules L. Smith is a partner with Blitman & King LLP, where he concentrates his practice in Labor, Employment Law and Employee Benefits.
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Order of the Coif; Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Delta Phi. Member: Editorial Board, Syracuse Law Review, 1970-1971; Justinian Society. Author: “Understanding How to Apply the DSM - IV to a Case Under the ADA,” 17 The Labor Lawyer 449 (2002); “An Employee Compliance Checklist, The Employment Provisions of the ADA,” 39 Federal News & Bar Journal Vol. 1, pg. 81, (January, 1992); “Accommodating the Americans With Disabilities Act to Collective Bargaining Obligations Under the NLRA,” Volume 18, No. 2, Employee Relations Law Journal, page 273 ff. (Autumn, 1992). Faculty Member and Lecturer: National Academy of Arbitrators, Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, Tough Calls in Arbitration Symposium, 2008; AFL-CIO, Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, Update on Anti-Discrimination Laws, 2008; Georgetown University Law Center Employment Law & Litigation Update 1998-; Juxtaposition of FMLA, Workers’ Compensation and the ADA, April 16-17, 1998; American Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education TeleConference-Employee Leaves of Absence: at the Crossroads of the FMLA, the ADA and Worker’s Compensation, March 26, 1996, National Teleconference; Practicing Law Institute, Sexual Harassment Litigation Program – Plaintiff’s Perspective: Motion Practice in Sexual Harassment Litigation, New York City, June 22, 1994; Building and Construction Trades Attorneys’ Conference, April 4, 1994, Seattle Washington: The Americans With Disabilities Act: Application of Title III, Public Accommodations, to Unions in the Construction Trades; Program Co-Chair, 25th Pacific Coast Labor Law Conference: Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs, Creating Equity in the Workplace and Avoiding Disaster in the Courts; The Americans With Disabilities Act: Adjustments for Collective Bargaining - Reality Replaces Rhetoric, May 15, 1992, Seattle, Washington. Member, 1975-, Secretary, 1978, President, 1979 and Vice President, 1983, Board of Directors, Onondaga Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. Member, Executive Board, 1990-1994, Rochester Fights Back. Vice-Chair, Greater Rochester Fights Back, 1992-1994; Chair, Prevention Partners, 1994-1996; Co-Chair, Rochester Committee on Foreign Relations, 1992-1998. Member, Board of Directors, United Way of Rochester, 1991-1996; Listed, New York Magazine, Summer Issue 2006, The New York Area’s Best Lawyers; Listed SuperLawyer, 2022; Member, Board of Directors, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, 2008-, and Secretary, 2011- Chair Elect 2013-2014; Chair, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Board of Directors, 2015-2019 and Immediate Past-Chair 2020.

New York Bar Foundation.

Areas of Practice (11)

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Benefits Litigation
  • Employment & Severance Agreements
  • Health & Welfare Plans
  • Individual & Executive Disputes
  • Labor Litigation
  • Litigation
  • Multiemployer & Public Plans
  • Pension Plans
  • Public Sector Unions
  • Wage & Hour

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
Syracuse University, B.S., 1969
Law School Attended:
Syracuse University, J.D., 1971
Year of First Admission:
1972
Admission:
1972, New York; 1973, U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York; 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; 1982, U.S. Supreme Court; 1972, U.S. Court for the Northern District of New York
Memberships:
Member, American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section (Budget and Finance Committee Co-Chair 2009—)(Equal Employment Opportunity Committee Co-Chair, 1985-1988)( Ad Hoc Committee to Comment on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Americans With Disabilities Act Regulations, 1990-1991); American Bar Association, Section Officers Council, Budget and Finance Class Representative, 2010-2014; Monroe County (Trustee, 1994-1995; Co-Chair, Labor and Employment Law Committee), Onondaga County, New York State Bar (Member: House of Delegates, 1989-1994; Labor and Employment Law Section, Chairman, 1984; Equal Employment Opportunity Committee); ; American Judicature Society; Industrial Relations Research Association (Co-Founder, IRRA of Central New York, 1978-1979; Vice-President, 1981).
Birth Information:
New York, N.Y., October 7, 1947
ISLN:
903613277

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