Neil Abramson is the co-chair of the Labor & Employment Law Department and head of the Public Sector Group. He handles all types of employment litigation, including discrimination claims, claims for breach of contract and claims arising from the collective bargaining relationship, as well as arbitrations, administrative proceedings and collective bargaining.
Neil regularly handles complex collective bargaining disputes for private and public sector employers, including litigating matters before the New York State Public Employment Relations Board, various public interest arbitration panels, private grievance arbitrators and the National Labor Relations Board. Neil leads the legal representation of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in its collective bargaining disputes with transit and railroad workers and the City of New York in its collective bargaining disputes with teachers, police, fire, nurses and hospital staff. Neil also regularly handles collective bargaining disputes for multiemployer bargaining associations and single employers for such clients as Major League Baseball, The League of Voluntary Hospitals, The New York Times, Pratt Institute and The Broadway League. He also provides advice and guidance to clients, counseling employers on how to avoid litigation and achieve their employee relations objectives. Neil also has litigated single and multiple plaintiff matters in the state and federal courts of New York and a number of other jurisdictions and has extensive appellate advocacy experience.
Among the clients Neil has represented are major corporations in such diverse fields as financial services, higher education, news media, transportation, sports, energy, entertainment and health care, as well as numerous public benefit and public service corporations.
Education
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Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, J.D.
Staff Member, Northwestern University Law Review, 1987-1988
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Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations, B.S.
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- U.S. District Court, New York, Eastern District
- U.S. District Court, New York, Southern District
Awards & Recognition
Sports Business Journal Power Players: Outside Counsel 2021
Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers 2020-2025
Chambers USA: New York, Labor & Employment 2016-2024
Benchmark Labor & Employment Top 10 Labor Lawyer 2022
Benchmark Labor & Employment Stars 2019-2022, 2024
Benchmark Litigation Stars 2025
Benchmark Litigation: Top 50 L&E Litigator 2024-2025
New York Super Lawyers 2010-2022
Best Lawyers in America 2008-2024
The Legal 500 United States: Labor & Employment: Management Relations: 2008-2010, 2012-2024 (Leading Lawyer 2024)
The Legal 500 United States: Employment Litigation & Arbitration 2017-2018
The Legal 500 United States: Labor & Employment: Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense 2019-2024
The Legal 500 United States: Labor & Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling 2019-2024
Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
Lawdragon, Human Resource Executive: "Top 100 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys" (Top 20 Traditional Labor & Employment) 2019
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