Mark W. Lerner Speaks at General Counsel Conference 2019

Kasowitz Benson Torres partner Mark W. Lerner hosted a roundtable discussion titled “Discrimination and Harassment in the Workplace” at Corporate Counsel’s General Counsel Conference on September 25, 2019 in New York City.  Mr. Lerner led a lively and highly interactive discussion with general counsels, examining real-life sensitive employment situations involving harassment and discrimination issues that he has seen in recent years.  Mr. Lerner discussed how general counsels can protect their companies against harassment and discrimination claims, and educate their company employees on related company policies.  He also discussed the rise of #MeToo sexual harassment claims and best practices for investigating claims.

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Mark W. Lerner is the head of the firm’s Employment Practices and Litigation Group.  A former federal prosecutor, Mark focuses his practice on advice and litigation relating to discrimination and harassment claims on behalf of management, non-competition agreements, employee raiding and lift-outs, theft of company information, executive compensation disputes, terminations and lay-offs, and wage and hour actions.  Mark has been recognized by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 in its elite “Leading Lawyers” list, and Super Lawyers as a top practitioner in the field of Labor and Employment Law.  Mark was also named to Lawdragon’s 2019 list of the Most Powerful Corporate Employment Lawyers in the U.S. 

The New York Law Journal named the Employment Practices and Litigation Group its 2019 Labor and Employment Litigation Department of the Year.  Mr. Lerner also won a Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award by The Burton Awards program for his article, “When Sexual Harassment is also a Crime,” published in the New York Law Journal.