Lawrence Del Rossi Email and Phone Number

Represent businesses including hospitals, pharmaceutical, life sciences, biotech, staffing, financial services, electronics, retail, restaurants, healthcare, medical, and manufacturing. Manage national class actions related to W&Hour, misclassification, and discrimination claims, including: • Defend restaurant chain in federal FLSA and NY state tip credit class and collective actions. • Defend App-based company on federal and state law classification of independent contractors. • Defend maintenance company in federal FLSA and NYLL class and collective actions. • Defend global electronics manufacture in nationwide Title VII class action in New York.- Defend, prosecute, and counseling on non-competes and other restrictive covenants, particularly in life sciences, medical, pharmaceutical, biotech, staffing, sales, financial services, and healthcare. - Conduct internal investigations and compliance review on employment and whistleblower claims, including ADA, ADEA, FMLA, NJLAD and CEPA. - Jury trials in federal and state courts on complex business disputes, contracts, and employment claims; and conduct labor arbitration. - Provide employment law counseling and training on anti-harassment and anti-discrimination, wage & hour compliance, employee handbooks, severance and separation agreements, reductions in force, and executive employment agreements. - Conduct due diligence review and risk assessment on L&E matters. - Served as onsite in-house counsel (secondment) with a global bio-orthopedic Co. for its sales force integration and distributor contracts.- Manage e-Discovery and computer forensic and search protocols in litigation. - Served as Chair: DBR's firm-wide Associates Committee- Serve as faculty: DBR's 1st Year Associate Development Program- Member of DBR's Summer Associates Committee - Volunteer mediator: Morris County Pro Bono Mediation Program - Volunteer for youth programs, mentorships, charities, and church events.

- Extensive legal research and writing on a variety of federal and state law issues, including employment, education, criminal, intellectual property, admiralty, contracts, products liability, bankruptcy, personal injury, Daubert motions related to expert reports, and other topics. - Attend jury and bench trials, settlement conferences, and related proceedings. - Attend plea and sentencing hearings.

- Extensive legal research and writing on state constitutional law issues, including employment law, family law, estate and probate law, criminal law, and a variety of other subjects. - Draft memorandum to entire Court after a petition for certification was granted. - Review and analysis of petitions for certification to the Court. - Attend oral argument on matters presented to the Court.

- Legal research and writing on a variety of discovery disputes. - Observe court proceedings, including oral argument, settlement conferences, and trials. - Coordinate with District Court's chambers on discovery disputes.- Perform other case related activity as an Extern through Rutgers' Externship Program.

- Legal research and writing on a variety of federal and state law issues. - Draft memorandum of law and affidavits in support of motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment. - Attend court proceedings, including settlement conferences and oral argument on motions.

Summer Intern working on various legal research projects.

Built character and people-to-people skills with big smiles, lots of patience, and an open mind, through the daily grind of a thriving retail business. Worked with a dynamic group of co-workers in numerous store positions, starting in high school as a shopping-cart clerk and leaving in college as a Jack-of-all Trades (and motivated to go to law school and learn about the American Judicial System).