TODD J. KRAKOWER, ESQ.
PARTNER
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Todd Krakower represents clients in all types of employment matters, including claims arising under Title VII, the Family Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the New York State Human Rights laws, as well as wage and hour claims arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act and other comparable state laws. Mr. Krakower also has experience in the area of traditional labor arising under the NLRA. A seasoned litigator, Mr. Krakower represents the firm’s clients in a broad range of labor and employment matters before federal and state courts and government agencies, and has particular expertise negotiating severance agreements on behalf of clients.
Mr. Krakower has experience in both the public and private sectors. He began his career as a a trial lawyer and supervisor in the City of New York's Office of Corporation Counsel Special Litigation Unit and Labor and Employment Division, defending the City in tort and employment litigation. Mr. Krakower re-entered private practice with boutique law firms in 2002, where he has continued to successfully represent clients in all types of matters, including labor and employment, insurance litigation and other matters including class action litigation.
Mr. Krakower earned his undergraduate degree from Tufts University, and graduated cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law. He is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Contact Todd Krakower at tk@glasskrakower.com.
BRYAN D. GLASS, ESQ.
PARTNER
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Bryan Glass has practiced for a number of years in labor and employment, municipal, civil rights, and education law in both the public and private sectors. He has a wealth of litigation experience in federal and state courts, as well as before arbitrators and administrative agencies. Mr. Glass also has specific expertise in civil service law and disciplinary defense on behalf of teachers and other public sector employees, as well as with Article 75 and 78 proceedings and appeals and unemployment administrative hearings.
Mr. Glass has extensive public sector experience, beginning his career clerking for a state appellate judge in Philadelphia and then for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City. He then practiced for several years in the City of New York’s Office of Corporation Counsel, where he represented the City’s agencies, hospitals, and schools in all forms of labor and employment litigation. Following the Office of Corporation Counsel, Mr. Glass practiced for several years counseling educators and health care providers throughout New York State as counsel to the New York State United Teachers Union (NYSUT) and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) in employee discipline and other human resource matters. There he developed broad labor arbitration and collective bargaining experience and argued before federal and state courts and administrative agencies, successfully defending several reported cases to dismissal through summary judgment, trial, and/or appeal. He also won exonerations for several teachers in Section 3020-a disciplinary proceedings.
Mr. Glass earned his B.S. in Labor Relations from Cornell University, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he won several labor law awards and served both on the Moot Court Board and as an Executive Editor on the Comparative Labor Law Journal. He serves as a public arbitrator on the FINRA Dispute Resolution panel, the Part 137 attorney-client fee disputes panel, as a small claims arbitrator, and is affiliated with Cornell University's Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution. Mr. Glass is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Contact Bryan Glass at bg@glasskrakower.com.
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