Samuel Estreicher
Of Counsel, Employment & Employee Benefits, Schulte Rothe & Zabe
Samuel Estreicher is of counsel in the New York office, where his practice focuses on the wide range of issues affecting employers and their employees, including designing ADR systems, conducting internal company investigations, advising clients in OFCCP, EEO, wage-hour and NLRA audits and representing clients in individual and class action EEO and wage and hour litigation and arbitration. Cross-border issues are also a specialty. Sam’s appellate practice includes victory in the Supreme Court in the Circuit City v. Adams litigation, broadening the availability of employment arbitration; victory in the Second Circuit overturning an interest arbitration award in The Daily News litigation; and amicus representation (in the Supreme Court) of Chrysler Corp., Ford Motors, General Motors, the Cato Institute, the Center for Public Resources, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Society for Human Resources Management, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Black Alliance for Educational Options, the American Jewish Committee, and the Council for Employment Law Equity. He has also directed the NYU School of Law’s Supreme Court Clinic, serving as co-counsel for the prisoner in Giles v. California, an important self-incrimination clause case.
One of the leading authorities in labor and employment law, Sam is also the Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law at New York University Law School and is the Chief Reporter of the American Law Institute’s Restatement Third of Employment Law. He has published several books, including leading casebooks in labor law and employment discrimination and employment law; edited conference volumes on sexual harassment, employment ADR processes, and cross-global labor and employment law; and authored more than 150 articles in professional and academic journals. Additionally, Sam has led more than 100 workshops for federal and state judges, U.S. Department of Labor lawyers, EEOC lawyers, court law clerks, employment mediators and practitioners generally. Sam has received numerous awards recognizing his expertise, including the Labor and Employment Relations Association’s prestigious Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award, and was also named one of the nation’s “Top 50 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys” by Human Resources Executive magazine.
Selected Speaking Engagements
Moderator, NYU “Stop and Frisk”: The Legal and Policy Issues, New York, October 2013
Memberships
American Bar Association
Former Secretary of the Labor and Employment Law Section
Association of the Bar for the City of New York
Former Chair of the Committee on Labor and Employment Law
American Arbitration Association
American Law Institute
Other Distinctions
- Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
- Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law, New York University School of Law
- Co-Director, Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration, New York University School of Law
- Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award, Labor and Employment Relations Association (2010)
- Recognized as one of “The Nation’s ‘50 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys,’” Human Resources Executive magazine
- Chief Reporter, Restatement Third of Employment Law, American Law Institute
- 2012 Samuel M. Kaynard Award for Excellence in the Fields of Labor and Employment Law, Hofstra University School of Law
- Member, Administrative Tribunal, Asian Development Bank
- Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
- Member, Arbitration/Mediation Panels of the American Arbitration Association and Center for Public Resources
Bar Admissions
New York
Washington, D.C.
Court Admissions
Various federal courts, including U.S. Supreme Court
Education
Columbia University Law School, J.D., 1975
- Editor-in-chief, Columbia Law Review
Cornell University, M.S., Labor Relations, 1974
Columbia College, A.B., 1970
- Joseph Pulitzer Fund Scholar
Prior Experience
Director, Supreme Court Clinic, New York University School of Law
Law Clerk to Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court
Law Clerk to Harold Leventhal, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit