Carmelo Grimaldi

Carmelo is actively involved in training supervisors and managers regarding compliance with various employment laws and regulations. He regularly counsels the firm's clients regarding various human resource issues that routinely arise in the workplace. Additionally, he is a frequent lecturer at New York University on such topics as employment laws including harassment in the workplace and has been a featured speaker for several groups that have offered continuing education credit to lawyers, accountants, and human resources personnel. Among his areas of expertise are: employment discrimination, harassment, and wrongful discharge litigation in federal and state courts and agencies, wage and hour proceedings, National Labor Relations Board proceedings, employment contracts, restrictive covenants, and employee handbooks, family leave, grievances and arbitrations, union organizing campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations, unemployment insurance proceedings, and many other areas. He has also handled numerous cases before federal and state appellate courts. He is admitted to practice before the Courts of the State of New York, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, Third Circuit and District of Colombia, and the United States Supreme Court.