Meyers Employment Law LLC is a boutique employment law firm.  Jonathan Meyers has been practicing law since 2000.  Prior establishing his firm, he was an attorney in the labor and employment department of one of the nation’s largest law firms.

Mr. Meyers also currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Employment Law at Kean University and previously at Seton Hall University’s Graduate School of Communications.

Mr. Meyers received his bachelors’ degree from Bucknell University and his law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law.  

He is admitted to the New York Bar and the New Jersey Bar. Additionally, Mr. Meyers is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, and the U.S. District Courts for Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Districts of New York. Mr. Meyers has also been named to New Jersey and New York Superlawyers lists at various times over the past decade.

Highlights of Mr. Meyers’ legal practice history include:

• Successfully arguing against cert. before the United States Supreme Court, in an employment discrimination lawsuit. (Riddle v. Liz Claiborne, Inc., 129 S.Ct. 405, 172 L.Ed.2d 296 (2008));

• Obtaining victory for a client in a non-compete lawsuit, following a 2-day hearing involving testimony more than half a dozen witnesses.  (B.O. Technology, L.L.C. v. Dray, 2013 WL 3770689 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Nassau Cty. June 27, 2013)) 

• Obtaining an appellate victory that has become a landmark decision in New York, to which courts and attorneys now look for guidance in interpreting fundamental employment law and class action issues. (Shah v. Wilco Sys., Inc., 27 AD 3d 169 (1st Dept; 2005));

• Securing substantial settlements in employment-based class actions

• Obtaining victories for clients at a variety of trials, hearings, and arbitrations;

• Gaining uniquely valuable experience by litigating a multitude of employment-based claims, in New York and New Jersey, involving one of the largest private employers in the world; and

• Negotiating severance and pre-litigation settlements relating to high-income employees.

In addition to being a skilled negotiator, Mr. Meyers has years of experience handling lawsuits before courts and arbitrators, and with matters with government agencies such as the EEOC, OSHA, New York Division on Human Rights, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the United States Department of Labor, and various state departments of Labor. 

Mr. Meyers has also published articles, participated in various speaking engagements, and given online CLE lectures for Lawline.com. 

Mr. Meyers is an active member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (“NELA”) and the Worrall F. Mountain American Inn of Court.