Julie Levy is a Counsel in the Firm’s Labor and Employment Group. Ms. Levy advises the Firm’s clients on the full range of labor and employment law issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions, financings and offerings, and she represents clients in situations involving allegations of wrongful termination, sexual harassment and other employment–related disputes.  She represents companies across the spectrum of industries, including paper, mining, packaging, automotive, printing and consumer products, as well as in financial services (including some of the largest banks in the world, investment banks and brokerages).

Ms. Levy received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Columbia University in 1991 where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1994.

Ms. Levy is admitted to practice in the State of New York as well as the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Publications

•	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
•	Recent Supreme Court Decision on Arbitration of Class Action Claims Presents Significant Opportunities for Employers
•	Employers Must Comply With New Wage Theft Prevention Act
•	New York State Enacts the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
•	Student Internships: What Employers Need to Know
•	New York’s Highest Court Sets Forth New Standard for Challenges to Cost-Sharing Provisions in Arbitration Agreements
•	Supreme Court Changes the Rules for Age Discrimination Cases, Holding Plaintiffs to a Heightened Proof Standard
•	Supreme Court Upholds Provisions in Collective Bargaining Agreement Requiring Employees to Arbitrate Discrimination Claims
•	The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008
•	President Obama Signs Fair Pay Act Extending Time for Filing Pay Discrimination Claims
•	President Obama Signs Three Pro-Union Executive Orders
•	President Bush Signs Law Broadening the Americans with Disabilities Act
•	California Supreme Court Rejects Ninth Circuit’s “Narrow Restraint” Exception to California’s General Prohibition on Post–Employment Competition Restrictions
•	Court of Appeals Holds that Executives are not Categorically Excluded from the Protections of the Labor Law and Addresses When a Commission Becomes a Wage
•	Second Circuit Holds Lender Is Not Employer of Borrower’s Employees for WARN Act Liability
•	New York Court of Appeals Strengthens "Employee Choice Doctrine", Providing for Forfeiture in the Event of Competition by a Former Employee
•	National Labor Relations Board Rules that Mandatory Arbitration Clause Violates The National Labor Relations Act
•	Supreme Court Recognizes Disparate Impact Claims Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
•	Supreme Court Eliminates the Continuing Violation Theory In Employment Discrimination Cases, For All But Hostile Environment Claims
•	Supreme Court Permits Employers to Refuse to Hire Disabled Individuals When the Position Poses a Direct Threat to the Health of the Individual Employee

Admissions

•	New York 1995
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of New York 1995

Education

•	Yale Law School, 1994 J.D. Yale Law Journal, 1992 - 1994
•	Columbia University, 1991 B.A. Magna Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa