DAVID WECHSLER
Employment lawyer with over forty years of experience
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I have spent more than 40 years advising executives and companies in a variety of industries, with an emphasis on the financial services sector. This includes extensive experience litigating and arbitrating compensation, discrimination (including harassment and retaliation), defamation and restrictive covenant cases. I also defend employees in internal company and FINRA investigations, and on selected occasions conduct these inquiries for companies as well. Due to my deep knowledge of the marketplace and how the courts interpret contracts, I am engaged by scores of professionals and companies each year to draft and negotiate employment, partnership, operating, separation and settlement agreements. I also advise companies on creating and updating employee handbooks and manuals to keep pace with the rapidly changing employment landscape. I have been selected by JAMS to respond to the questions of its employment arbitrators and mediators regarding current employment law issues. Since 2007, I have been consistently designated as a "New York Super Lawyer," having been chosen for this distinction by both my peers and through independent research conducted by Law & Politics. I have also been quoted in leading national publications including The Wall Street Journal, appeared on CNN, and participated as a noted speaker on a variety of industry panels. Some of my notable matters include: ● An award of $14.08 million plus denial of a $2 million counterclaim, in favor of three Merrill Lynch financial advisors wrongfully terminated for cause and defamed on their regulatory records. ● An award of $23.3 million (including attorneys’ fees and costs) for a jettisoned portfolio manager of a large asset management firm based upon a finding that the firm had no cause to terminate. ● An award of $3.8 million in deferred compensation to a senior equity analyst employed by a multibillion-dollar hedge fund who was terminated for allegedly not disclosing to compliance that he may have possessed material non-public information. ● An award over $3.3 million for an executive recruiter of day traders, employed by a public company with an electronic trading platform, based on misrepresentations made by the company that irreparably damaged the recruiter’s reputation and career. ● An award of $6.8 million to a financial advisor wrongfully terminated by Wells Fargo/Wachovia Securities, including $1 million in punitive damages and attorneys’ fees, and an expunged regulatory record.
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