WIGDOR LLP
Douglas Wigdor is a founding partner at WIGDOR LLP, where the practice emphasizes litigation and counseling on various employment issues, criminal matters, and international concerns. Since March 2016, Wigdor has served as an Arbitrator on the Employment Panel for the American Arbitration Association, resolving disputes in an impartial and cost-effective manner. Prior experience includes a senior associate position at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, focusing on labor and employment cases for Fortune 500 clients, and serving as a law clerk for the Honorable Arthur D. Spatt at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Wigdor's legal career began as an Assistant District Attorney in Suffolk County, New York, handling a wide range of criminal prosecutions. Wigdor holds a Juris Doctor from Catholic University School of Law and a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford.
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WIGDOR LLP
Wigdor LLP is widely considered one of the leading employment law firms in the country. Founded in 2003, Wigdor LLP specializes in litigating complex cases, representing individual executives as well as current and former employees in a variety of employment law matters. The Firm’s Founding Partner, Douglas H. Wigdor, is widely regarded as one of New York’s most successful employment attorneys. Ranked a Top 100 attorney in the New York Metro area by Super Lawyers, Mr. Wigdor routinely tries cases to verdict — having won numerous verdicts in the millions of dollars and regularly appearing in the New York Law Journal’s “Top Verdicts.” Because of his employment trial verdicts and high-profile cases, Mr. Wigdor has appeared in several profiles about his career, including articles in The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek and the London Independent. The attorneys at Wigdor LLP are highly experienced in the successful litigation of class action, multi-plaintiff and single-plaintiff discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblower, wage and hour and other employment-related lawsuits. The Firm has been recognized by Chambers and Partners in the category of New York Labor and Employment: Mainly Plaintiffs Representation. The Firm also has a strong track record in criminal law, sports and entertainment law, civil rights and catastrophic torts. Wigdor LLP treats each case as unique, working closely and collaboratively with each client to ensure only the best possible legal representation. Due to the Firm’s well-respected stature within the legal community, the attorneys at Wigdor LLP possess a rare negotiating power that is unseen by most plaintiffs’ firms. As a result, the Firm is able to settle the vast majority of its cases, often before a complaint is ever filed. These confidential settlements total over $1 Billion. The hallmark of our practice, and our promise to you, quite simply is: Unparalleled dedication, commitment and integrity in all of our work.