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Carmelo Grimaldi
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Carmelo ("Mel") is a Partner in the Firm's Employment Labor and Employment Law Practice Group and has over 18 years of experience concentrating in diverse employment and labor law matters on behalf of management. 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.
Mel is also actively involved in training supervisors and managers regarding compliance with various employment laws and regulations. He regularly counsels 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. 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. Mel holds a Bachelor of Arts from Queens College of the City University of New York and received his Juris Doctorate from St. John's University School of Law (Queens, NY).
His professional affiliations include the American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section and the Columbian Lawyers' Association of Nassau County, Inc., for which he has held the positions of Treasurer, Corresponding Secretary and Vice President.
