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Provided by Jurate Schwartz
Jurate Schwartz is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department. She devotes her practice to counseling clients in employment matters, as well as representing employers in federal and state litigations, arbitrations and administrative proceedings.
Jurate’s practice includes providing advice on compliance with various laws affecting the workplace, including the FMLA, ADEA, Title VII, ADA, FLSA and similar state and local laws. She counsels clients on developing, implementing and enforcing personnel policies and procedures and reviewing and revising multi-state employee handbooks under federal, state and local laws. Jurate also advises clients on policy and training issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, employee classification, accommodation of religious beliefs, pregnancy and disability, and leaves of absence, including vacation and paid time off policies, multi-state paid sick and safe leave laws and paid family and medical leave laws. Jurate is experienced in conducting wage-and-hour audits under federal and state wage-hour laws and advising clients on classification issues. She also assists clients in drafting employment, independent contractor, consulting and separation agreements as well as various restrictive covenants.
In addition to counseling, Jurate litigates employment disputes of all types, including claims of employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblowing, breach of contract, employment-related torts and claims under federal and state wage-and-hour laws. Jurate also assists clients in matters involving trade secrets and non-competes, as well as nonsolicitation, nondisclosure agreements and other restrictive covenants.
Jurate’s pro bono work includes service on the HR committee of a not-for-profit organization, the YMCA of South Palm Beach County, Florida, and assisting other not-for-profit organizations with employment matters, as well as her successful representation of an unaccompanied immigrant child in an asylum proceeding referred by the National Center for Refugee & Immigrant Children.
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Jurate's capacity to explain and land complex legal matters is exceptional.
I am impressed with Jurate’s ability to explain complicated areas of the law in an easy to understand manner.
Her expertise and guidance to our organization have consistently provided clarity and confidence in navigating complex challenges.
Jurate is the first call we make when we have a thorny, sticky, unclear employment matter.
She is really someone we can pick up the phone and know that no matter how unusual the issue she will be able to quickly step in and provide sound wise advice.
Jurate's capacity to explain and land complex legal matters is exceptional.
I am impressed with Jurate’s ability to explain complicated areas of the law in an easy to understand manner.
Her expertise and guidance to our organization have consistently provided clarity and confidence in navigating complex challenges.
Jurate is the first call we make when we have a thorny, sticky, unclear employment matter.
She is really someone we can pick up the phone and know that no matter how unusual the issue she will be able to quickly step in and provide sound wise advice.