Rob is the deputy office managing member of the firm's Albany office. Recognized in Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Labor and Employment and Employment Litigation, Rob counsels and represents a wide variety of employers—including colleges, healthcare systems and medical practices, human services organizations, manufacturing facilities and other for-profit business—to ensure compliance with the vast array of laws and regulations that employers encounter. 

Rob provides proactive counseling and guidance on compliance issues, workplace accommodations, leaves of absence, wage and hour laws, and employee discipline, and regularly reviews and drafts policies, employee handbooks and employment-related agreements.  He strives to provide his clients with solutions that are not only legally compliant but that are also practical and meet the unique needs of the employer that he is advising.

Rob has extensive experience working with clients on “traditional” labor relations matters, including petitions filed by employees seeking to unionize, collective bargaining, representing employers through grievance and arbitration proceedings, and defending unfair labor practice proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board. 

In situations where an employer may be faced with an allegation of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation, Rob routinely represents employers in proceedings before the New York State Division of Human Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and in state and federal courts. 

Some of Rob’s representative cases include:

• Summary judgment granted in favor of a manufacturing facility, dismissing a federal lawsuit where the plaintiff alleged hostile work environment based on race.
• Summary judgment granted in favor of a college, dismissing state law claims of fraud and breach of contract asserted by a former faculty member.
• Voluntary withdrawal of a federal lawsuit alleging retaliation under the First Amendment and New York Human Rights Law.
• Dismissal of unfair labor practice charges following a trial before an Administrative Law Judge, alleging unlawful termination of two employees.
• Dismissal of numerous DHR complaints and EEOC charges alleging claims of disparate treatment and harassment based on race, age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, criminal conviction status, national origin, and religion.

Rob is an adjunct faculty member at Albany Law School where he teaches a masters’ level course in labor law.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York and on the Human Resources Committee for the Double “H” Ranch.