How We Help

Spivak Lipton LLP has been effectively representing unions, employee benefit funds and workers for decades. We are strongly committed to building caring and trusting relationships with our clients, advancing real change in the workplace. We are experienced labor, employment, and benefit lawyers who have helped our clients achieve significant strides to secure their goals. We support workers seeking to ignite workplace change and improve their working conditions.

 Advocacy

Spivak Lipton is committed to advancing justice through collective efforts to demand change. As a labor, employment, and benefits law firm, we have worked to empower workers who have been subjected to injustice and to represent them in the courts, at the bargaining table and before government agencies – and we will continue to do so with even greater urgency.

 Industries We Serve

The firm has represented numerous private and public sector unions and benefit funds in the entertainment industry as well as in construction, transportation, education, health care, legal services, and social services.  We also support workers organizing in new areas such as technology and digital media.

Our Lawyers

We act with power, persistence and purpose on behalf of our clients. Our partners, associates and staff have dedicated their careers to serving the labor movement and are strongly committed to advocating for our clients’ goals no matter what the challenge. 

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Labor and Union Representation

Labor and Union Representation

We work hand-in-hand with labor unions to advocate for fair and equitable treatment in the workplace and to promote higher wages and more favorable benefits. As partners with our union clients, we will be there to support, advise and strategize every step of the way.

Pension and Employee Benefit Funds

Employee Benefit Funds

We advise employee health, retirement, training and other benefit plans on all aspects of plan administration and benefit design, negotiating agreements, representing them in arbitration and in court, and guiding them in their dealings with government agencies.

Individual and Employee Rights

Employment Rights Litigation

We advocate for those who are experiencing discrimination, harassment and/or retaliation on the job. We also represent workers who do not receive a fair day’s pay for a fair’s day work including minimum wage and overtime claims, equal pay act claims, and misclassification claims for independent contractors.

Employment Contract & Severance Negotiations

Employment Contract & Severance Negotiations

We guide individuals through employment transitions to further their career goals by assisting executives and other employees in negotiating fair employment contracts and severance agreements, and in resolving employment disputes.