Tracey Diamond

Tracey provides comprehensive guidance to clients on employment law, helping them to achieve their business goals through effective and efficient workforce structuring. She advises on complex workplace issues; provides training; conducts internal investigations; drafts policies and procedures; and negotiates employment and severance agreements.

Tracey plays a key role in transactions, counseling clients on the employment aspects of private equity deals and mergers and acquisitions, as well as labor issues related to corporate deals. In addition to revising employment provisions in purchase agreements and analyzing due diligence, she negotiates and drafts employment-related ancillary documents.

Drawing from significant courtroom experience, Tracey helps clients resolve employment-related litigation and administrative hearings before state and federal agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She represents employers across all types of matters, including enforcing and defending noncompetition and nonsolicitation clauses, wage and hour class and collective actions, and discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims. In the labor area, Tracey assists clients with the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and defense of grievances, including in arbitration.

Tracey leverages her experiences in senior HR and in-counsel roles to better understand her clients and their challenges and help them achieve their objectives. Before joining the firm, she served as director of human resources and operations for a large nonprofit organization where she was responsible for the human resources issues for more than 1,000 employees and contract administration for the agency’s union. As general counsel of a national retail optical company, Tracey was involved in overseeing the company’s employment law matters, negotiating commercial contracts, and managing the litigation docket.

Tracey speaks and writes frequently about a multitude of employment law issues. She is the founder, creator, and co-host of the firm’s Hiring to Firing Podcast, where she discusses hot-button labor and employment law issues with unique perspectives drawn from hit shows and movies. Tracey is the editor of the firm’s Hiring to Firing Law blog, a go-to resource for analysis of issues affecting the workplace. She makes regular media appearances and has been quoted by CBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Bloomberg, among other publications.

Tracey has served as a qualified mediator for the New Jersey Superior Court and as an adjunct professor at Drexel University Kline School of Law.