Lisa R. Lipman has represented hundreds of employees in a wide variety of employment matters during her legal career, including during her solo law practice over the past 30 years. She litigates in federal and state courts and administrative agencies (e.g., the EEOC, NY State Division of Human Rights, and City Commission on Human Rights). She mediates, arbitrates, and negotiates disputes.
Lipman’s practice has helped a broad range of clients: employees and managers who work for corporations and those who work for non-profit organizations, highly compensated employees and hourly workers, consultants, and independent contractors.
Her discrimination and retaliation practice includes claims based on race, sex, national origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender status, and gender identity. Her practice includes contract claims, and claims for unpaid wages or unpaid commissions. She negotiates contracts and severance agreements.
Many of her clients are women who have faced sexual harassment and discrimination based on sex. This includes women who seek her advice and counsel for issues arising in connection with pregnancy as well as family and medical leave, who face subtle and not-so-subtle discrimination, as they begin and maintain their families. Women turn to her when they see that they are earning less than their similarly situated male counterparts, when they have been denied equal pay for equal work, have not been promoted as frequently as their male coworkers, and/or have encountered sexual harassment.,
A significant part of her practice is advising employees who are encountering a difficulty in their employment relationship—before a situation escalates. This happens frequently around the need for reasonable accommodation of a disability. Her advice and guidance have often prevented discriminatory situations from escalating, and has resulted in positioning employees to negotiate a favorable exit packages, or, if need be, litigate.
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My clients know that they can rely on me to provide thoughtful, nuanced counsel, based on the most recent developments in the law, working efficiently and thoroughly to represent their interests, while staying in regular and frequent contact with them as their matter proceeds.
I work tirelessly to provide my clients with the most strategic, cost-effective service I can give them. I represent employees at all stages of the employment relationship, whether the employee is on the way in the door, facing problems while currently employed, seeking (or being told) that the employment relationship is ending, or after a termination.
