Employment Law Leaders
Berke-Weiss & Pechman LLP is a boutique employment law firm located in the heart of Manhattan. Partners Laurie Berke-Weiss and Louis Pechman founded the firm in 1996, concentrating their practice on every aspect of employment and labor law, such as claims of sex, age and race discrimination; union-management negotiations; NLRB matters; wage and hour disputes; non-compete agreements and restrictive covenants; and, advice about employment and severance agreements.
Client-Centered Practice
Berke-Weiss & Pechman LLP represents both employers and employees, affording the firm a unique perspective on practicing employment law and labor relations. The firm’s ability to see both sides of an issue enables us to focus squarely on our clients’ needs and interests. Our clients are diverse; they come from virtually every type of business and industry, including financial services; health care; restaurant and hospitality; professional services partnerships, such as medicine, law, accounting and architecture; photography, design and marketing; manufacturing; education; and, non-profit organizations.
Recognized By The Legal Community
The skill and experience of the firm is widely recognized in the legal community. Berke-Weiss & Pechman LLP is rated A-V® – Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. Louis Pechman and Laurie Berke-Weiss each have been named New York Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers since 2006. They frequently lecture on employment and labor law topics for other lawyers. For more than a decade, Louis Pechman has organized and moderated a program at the New York County Bar Association titled, “How to Handle an Employment Discrimination Case,” providing training to numerous lawyers in this field. Laurie Berke-Weiss, a past President of the New York Women’s Bar Association and a former Chair of the New York City Bar Association, is a leader in the New York bar. She was recently honored for her professional achievements by Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations with the Judge William B. Groat Award.
Helping Clients Solve Their Employment Law Problems
Berke-Weiss & Pechman LLP brings over 50 years of collective legal experience to each engagement. Our firm is dedicated to advising clients on solving their employment law problems. We use our skill and experience to provide the counseling, negotiation and litigation skills needed to help our clients meet their goals.
Laurie Berke-Weiss was selected as a Legal Elite in Avenue Magazine’s August 2011 edition, and will be featured in Avenue Magazine’s Legal Elite/NYC’s Top Women Lawyers list, to be published in October 2011.
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Laurie Berke-Weiss, a partner at Berke-Weiss & Pechman LLP, has been named to the “Top 50 Women New York Super Lawyers” list for 2011. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from various practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
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Laurie Berke-Weiss and Louis Pechman were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.).
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Laurie Berke-Weiss and Louis Pechman have been selected for inclusion in the 2011 edition of New York Super Lawyers®.
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On October 25, 2011, Louis Pechman moderated the program "How to Handle a Wage and Hour Case" at New York County Lawyers' Association.
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On October 12, 2011, Laurie Berke-Weiss was a featured speaker at “From Sexual Harassment to Sexual Assault – Sexual Misconduct at the Workplace,” a program presented by the Cornell University ILR School Labor and Employment Law Program. The program was held at the Cornell ILR NYC Conference Center.
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