Sexual Harassment
Employees Reach Settlement with Major Retailer for Sexual Harassment
Our firm represented two sales representatives of a major department store who were sexually harassed by their supervisor. The supervisor ogled their bodies, made crude comments of a sexual nature, propositioned them for sex and more. We were able to secure a large settlement for our clients at mediation, before filing a lawsuit.

Manager for Prominent Jewelry Company Sexually Harassed
A manager at one of the country's premier jewelry companies settled her sexual harassment claim with the help of The Ottinger Firm. The manager filed a sexual harassment and retaliation claim against her former employer for subjecting her to sexual harassment and for firing her after her complaints of sexual harassment. Our firm was able to reach a generous settlement with the jewelry company.

Employee Fired for breaking up with Boss
Our client was terminated after she ended a romantic relationship with her boss. We were prepared to file a sexual-harassment lawsuit against the company, but we were able to reach a settlement before that was necessary.

Waitress Sexually Harassed by Kitchen Staff
The cooks and dishwashers of a New Jersey diner heckled a waitress with sexual comments, propositioned her repeatedly for sex, touched her and hung pornography from the walls of the work area. The owners of the diner refused the settle the case, so we filed a law suit in federal court. We tried the case before a jury and won a substantial verdict.

Age Discrimination
Investment Banker Discharged because of his Age.
Our client began working for a major investment bank as a college intern. He stayed with the firm until he was fired after reaching the age of 55. We filed an age-discrimination lawsuit on our client's behalf, and managed to reach a settlement with the bank at mediation.

Employee Discriminated Against Due to his Age by Local Transit Authority
Our firm represented a subway token clerk in a federal age-discrimination case. The local transit authority refused to promote our client unless he submitted to a physical test given only to those individuals over the age of forty. We won a ruling from the court finding that the transit authority's conduct amounted to age discrimination. Our client was awarded the promotion, lost salary and other compensation.

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Severance
Entertainment Company Exec Negotiates Additional Severance Pay.
A top entertainment executive with one of the largest entertainment companies retained this firm to negotiate a severance package. We were able to negotiate with the company and get our client a substantially larger severance package than the original offer.

Severance Package for High-Ranking Official with Airline
Using the threat of a gender-discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, we were able to negotiate a large severance package for an airline official.

Overtime
Two Private Investigators Recoup Lost Overtime Wages.
Our firm represented two private investigators who had been working long hours without being paid time-and-a-half for all overtime hours as is required by law. We were able to reach a settlement with the firm for almost all of the money that was owed to our clients.

Racial Discrimination
Pharmaceutical Executive Fired because of his Race.
Our client was singled out and accused of misconduct because of racial discrimination. He was later terminated due to false charges. The company continued to claim misconduct, but later agreed to a large confidential settlement after we filed a federal racial discrimination suit.

Employees of Major Toy Company Recover Large Settlement for Racial Discrimination
One of the leading toy retailers implemented a plan to hire more employees of only the Caucasian race; excluding all other racial groups. A group of African-American employees retained our firm to represent them. A federal racial discrimination suit was filed and a large settlement was obtained through mediation.

Commission Cases
Multiple Sales Reps Cheated Out of Owed Commissions Due to Retroactive Application of Commission Rate Change
We have several clients in the same position. They secured sales based on a certain commission percentage. Their company changed the commission percentage rate and applied the new lower commission rate to sales made prior to the change. This case is still pending in the courts.

Disability Discrimination
Technician Forced to Work with Handicap
Our client suffered disability discrimination when, after becoming partially disabled, he was forced to work in violation of the accommodations suggested by his doctor. We were able to obtain a large settlement for our client.

National Origin Discrimination
Large Investment Firm Retaliates Against Employee for Complaining of National Origin Discrimination.
The investment firm promoted less skilled and experienced employees over our client. When he complained that he thought this was due to discrimination, the firm began retaliating against him, including giving him negative evaluations. Eventually the company terminated his employment. This case was settled to our client's satisfaction.

Three Government Scientists Suffer National Origin Discrimination by Their New Supervisor.
When a new supervisor was hired, our three clients suffered termination and/or demotion based on the fact that they were of a different national origin than the new supervisor. We obtained a favorable settlement for our clients.

Pregnancy Discrimination
Legal Assistant at NY Law Firm Discharged Due to Pregnancy.
Our client was in her second trimester when she began suffering pregnancy-related complications that required hospitalization. As a result of the pregnancy and the complications, she was let go by the law firm while still in the hospital. This case reached settlement at mediation.

Non-Compete
2 Ex-employees Sued for Violating Non-compete Agreement.
Our clients left a large engineering firm and started their own engineering company. Their prior employer sued them for stealing clients based upon a non-compete agreement they had signed many years earlier. Our two clients had signed different non-compete agreements. The court found that one of the agreements was enforceable and the other was not. We managed to ease the non-compete restrictions for one of the employees, but not the other.

Published Cases
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Abramowitz v. Inta-Boro Acres Inc.
Isley v. BOVINA MUSIC, INC
Perry v. S.Z. Restaurant Corp.
Spencer v. CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK/COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND

Employee Discriminated Against Due to his Age by Local Transit Authority - Epter
(two published decisions - motion and damages)
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Ex-employees Sued for Violating Non-compete Agreement - APT
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