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Joshua Zuckerberg

Joshua Zuckerberg has been with Pryor Cashman since 2000 and became a partner in January 2007. His practice covers the entire spectrum of labor and employment issues. He has extensive experience representing and counseling employers on all matters affecting the workplace, including discrimination, harassment, and disability claims, restrictive covenants, wage and hour issues, and termination and severance practices. 

In addition, Mr. Zuckerberg represents employee associations whose membership includes physicians, professors, stage directors and fire officers. Mr. Zuckerberg has developed considerable expertise in arbitration, mediation, collective bargaining, and federal and state litigation.

Recently, Mr. Zuckerberg has:

• Represented high level executives in various termination and severance negotiations
• Prosecuted and defended collective action wage and hour cases in the restaurant industry
• Initiated and settled a sexual harassment litigation against a Fortune 500 Bank
• Defended a real estate company and its executive in a quid pro quo sexual harassment claim  

Mr. Zuckerberg is a 1997 graduate of Brooklyn Law School, where he was a member of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law and the Moot Court Honors Society. He was awarded an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship.

Previous Positions

• Proskauer Rose,  Associate (1998-2000)
• National Labor Relations Board, Region 2, Attorney (1997-98)

Publications

• Co-author (with Richard M. Betheil), New Wage Rate Notice Requirements Affecting All New York Employers, Pryor Cashman Legal Update, November 2009
• Co-Author (with Matthew Young), Important and Immediate Changes to COBRA, Pryor Cashman Legal Update, February 2009
• Co-Author (with Anna E. Hutchinson and Vanessa G. Lan), The New York State WARN Act, Recent Amendments To The Americans With Disabilities Act And Changes To The Family And Medical Leave Act, Pryor Cashman Legal Update, February 2009

Speaking Engagements

• Speaker, Preventing Discrimination in the Workplace: What HR Needs to Know, IOMA Webinar (August 2009)
• Speaker, Complying With the New ADA Law: What to Watch for in the First Year, IOMA Webinar, March 2009

Professional Affiliations

• Member of the New York City Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Committee, where he has recently focused on international labor and employment issues

Other Activities

• Provides pro-bono legal services to Urban Pathways, one of the city's largest providers of services and housing to homeless New Yorkers