Rosemary Alito - Lawyer in Newark, NJ

Ms. Alito is co-Chair of the firms 100-lawyer global Labor and

Employment Practice. She represents management in disputes involving

employment law and employee benefit law issues. Ms. Alito defends

employers in litigation, including class action litigation, relating to

employment discrimination, wage and hour, wrongful termination,

harassment and employee benefit plan terminations. She also counsels on

workplace policies and compliance.

Ms. Alito is an experienced

litigator in trials and appeals in both state and federal courts. In

1999, the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey honored Ms. Alito with its Trial

Bar Award for outstanding performance as a trial lawyer. She has served

as lead counsel in the successful defense of class actions under ERISA

and the LMRA involving multiple-employer welfare and pension trust

funds, and trials of class actions challenging termination of retiree

medical benefits. Her litigation experience in discrimination matters

ranges from single-plaintiff cases to FLSA class actions and EEOC

actions challenging company-wide and nation-wide policies.

Ms.

Alito has written and spoken extensively on employment law issues. Her

employment law treatise and her law review article on the 1991 Civil

Rights Act have been cited with approval by state appellate courts,

federal circuit courts of appeal and scholarly publications. Her recent

presentations have included a Glass Ceiling panel with former EEOC Chair

Naomi Earp, an EEOC New York Region technical advice program on

retaliation. Prior lectures include the Third Circuit conference, the

United States District Court Conference and the Judicial College.

Ms. Alito serves as Chairman of the Editorial Board of the weekly New Jersey Law Journal,

the states leading legal publication. She has been actively involved

in attorney and judicial ethics, as chair of the Lawyers Fund for

Client Protection, Vice-Chair of the Professional Responsibility Rules

Committee, and as a member of Supreme Court committees on judicial

discipline, funding for assistance to lawyers with addiction problems

and the status of women in the courts. She is a past President of the

Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey.

Ms. Alito has also

been involved with issues of judicial administration, serving on the

Lawyers Advisory Committees to the United States Court of Appeals for

the Third Circuit and the United States District Court. She has chaired

the merit selection committees for two Bankruptcy Court judges and

chaired or served on the merit selection committees for several United

States Magistrate-Judges.

Ms. Alito has been recognized by her

peers through election to the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers,

the American Bar Foundation, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers

(where she serves on the Board of Directors) and the International

Society of Barristers. She has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for many years, Chambers USA (First Band) and Super Lawyers

Top 100. Law Dragon has named her as one of the 500 leading lawyers in

the country. Since 2008, Human Resources Executive has named her one of

the 100 most powerful employment lawyers in the country.