Mr. Warren’s litigation experience includes:

• Litigating (in arbitrations) and resolving withdrawal liability disputes on behalf of both multiemployer pension funds and employers
• Appealing a federal district court decision limiting a multiemployer welfare fund’s audit of a contributing employer
• Arbitrating intellectual property ownership dispute
• Successful mediations of sexual harassment and sex discrimination claims by executives against employer clients
• Successful mediations/settlements of FLSA and New York Labor Law claims against employer clients
• Successful mediations/settlements of ADA and Fair Housing Act accessibility claims against retail store operator and landlord clients
• Settling employer claims against employee for breach of fiduciary duty after defeating employee’s motion for summary judgment
• Obtaining dismissal of defamation claims against a national retail store employer based on plaintiff’s deletion of electronically stored information from his home computer
• Defending pattern and practice national origin discrimination claims against a publicly traded foreign corporation and its U.S. subsidiary challenging numerous termination, promotion and transfer decisions
• Obtaining summary judgment for national provider of hospital services on race and sex discrimination and retaliation claims by former manager
• Defending age discrimination claims against numerous airlines and Air Line Pilots Association challenging age limits on, and transfer rules applying to, second officer/flight engineer positions
• Defending a national broker-dealer against class action claims by financial advisors that forfeitures of employee contributions to deferred compensation plans violated ERISA non-forfeiture and fiduciary duty rules
• Obtaining summary judgment for a hospital pension fund and hospital on claims that there was a partial termination of the pension plan and the hospital interfered with plaintiffs’ receiving pension benefits
• Obtaining arbitration award upholding pension fund’s withdrawal liability methodology, and obtaining related judgment enforcing withdrawal liability payment obligations to the fund
• Obtaining consent permanent injunction for national retail store employer against a senior sales manager enforcing his contractual non-competition covenants
• Defending the Governor of Kansas in an original proceeding in the Kansas Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of a law regulating picketing at funerals

Mr. Warren’s recent contract negotiation and internal investigation experience includes:

• Advising hedge funds in designing and drafting compensation plans and employment policies, and advising numerous portfolio managers and traders in negotiating employment agreements.
• Advising the compensation committee of publicly traded company regarding CEO employment agreement, and advising numerous companies and senior executives in negotiating and drafting employment agreements
• Advising purchasers and sellers in corporate transactions in which continued employment of seller’s senior executives is a key element of the transaction in negotiating and drafting employment agreements and non-competition covenants
• Advising numerous employers in designing and implementing reduction-in-force strategies
• Advising numerous employers in designing policies, and responding to individual employee requests, for medical leave in excess of Family and Medical Leave Act requirements