Wang Hecker LLP

Founding Partners: Mariann Wang and Eric Hecker

Other Partners: Alex Goldenberg, Alice Reiter, Daniel Mullkoff, Heather Gregorio

Number of partners: 6

Number of lawyers: 9

Firm Overview:

Wang Hecker LLP is a nationally recognized plaintiff-side civil rights law firm, successfully suing and challenging corporations, governments, and powerful individuals to obtain significant monetary and systemic relief for our clients. We represent sexual assault survivors, victims of excessive force and abuse of power, whistleblowers, and workers who have suffered discrimination, retaliation, and been subjected to wage theft. We bring individual and class actions, and have pushed to develop the law in precedent-setting cases, obtaining landmark rulings.

Notable Clients:

Sexual Harassment & Assault:

• Dozens of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other men in his orbit who were subjected to trafficking and sexual abuse, in multiple actions;
• Survivors of Harvey Weinstein, including Miriam Haley, whose testimony was the basis of Weinstein’s criminal conviction in his original trial and 2025 re-trial;
• Women who suffered unwanted groping and touching by Donald Trump, including one for whom we made new law, establishing that a former President could be sued for damages in state court, rejecting Trump’s arguments for immunity, Zervos v. Donald Trump;
• Multiple women sexually harassed at work by former Governor Andrew Cuomo, including Brittany Commisso, Alyssa McGrath and Virginia Limmiatis;
• Women sexually harassed or unfairly underpaid as compared to men while working at banks, hedge funds, Fortune 500 companies, real estate holding companies, and as police officers, and restaurant, utility and domestic workers;
• Obtained unprecedented settlements against NYC and the United States for women who were raped or assaulted in jails and prisons, e.g. A.P. v. United States of America; Rodriguez v. City of New York.

Class and Group Actions:

• Obtained TRO against ICE and the U.S. for their inhumane treatment of detained immigrants and denying them access to lawyers, Barco Mercado v. Noem;
• Represented nearly 200 survivors of childhood sexual abuse by Dr. Reginald Archibald of Rockefeller University Hospital;
• Obtained a $53 million settlement on behalf of a class of pre-trial detainees and parolees placed in unlawful solitary confinement in New York City, Miller v. NYC;
• Represented more than 50 clients who were adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse at various elite, private elementary and high schools throughout the country, and assisted many of those clients in connection with law enforcement investigations of the abuse;
• Obtained expansive injunctive relief against the NYPD for their mistreatment of women reporting rapes and sexual assault, Demski and Turkos v. NYC.

Workers Rights:

• Obtained landmark ruling that Uber violated New York City’s food delivery worker Minimum Pay Statute by failing to begin to pay its delivery workers the required minimum hourly wage promptly after the law took effect in Perdomo v. Uber Technologies;
• Successfully represented group of immigrant construction workers in collective action obtaining unpaid wages and overtime under Fair Labor Standards Act, Carrera v. JG Welding;
• Representing a putative class of restaurant workers claiming that various Five Guys restaurant locations in New York City failed to comply withadvance scheduling, shift change, and other requirement of New York City’s Fair Workweek Law, Kimble v. FGNY.