BakerHostetler announced today that Amy J. Traub has joined the firm’s Employment and Labor Group as a Partner in its New York office. She comes to BakerHostetler from Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
As an employment advisor and litigator, Traub focuses her practice on the full array of employment law matters in all industries, including a particular focus on the healthcare and retail industries. She advises clients on a wide variety of employment-related issues, with a focus on the avoidance of litigation, including the recruitment and hiring of employees, background checks, employee discipline and terminations, employee leaves of absence, disability and religious accommodation issues, wage-and-hour law, layoffs and reductions-in-force, and other facets of the employer-employee relationship. She also conducts human resources and wage-and-hour audits, and drafts and revises various types of employment policies and procedures, employee handbooks and manuals, and employment agreements, including separation and severance agreements, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, and settlement agreements. As a litigator, Traub also regularly represents employers in federal and state court, as well as before administrative agencies, regarding employment-related issues such as discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage-and-hour law, background checks, leaves of absence, and disability and religious accommodation issues.
Traub was cited among the “Leaders in Their Field” in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in 2012. She earned her J. D. in 2000 from the University of Richmond School of Law, where she was the Manuscripts Editor for the University of Richmond Law Review, and a B. A. from the State University of New York at Albany in 1996.
“BakerHostetler is recognized as a go-to law firm for its employment and labor practice, and the addition of Amy will further expand our ability to provide comprehensive service to employers in every facet of employment-related matters,” said David Grant, chair of BakerHostetler’s National Employment and Labor Group.
“Amy’s knowledge and experience will heighten the firm’s nationally recognized Employment and Labor Group, while enhancing the capabilities of our growing New York office,” said George Stamboulidis, Managing Partner of BakerHostetler’s New York office.
“I am delighted to be joining a firm with both a strong historical commitment and an innovative, forward-thinking approach to meeting client needs,” said Traub. “I look forward to partnering with my new colleagues in the Employment and Labor Group and across the firm to provide our clients with the outstanding level of service that BakerHostetler has become known for nationally.”
