David B. Feldman, Esq.

Professional Experience

David founded and chairs FRB’s Labor and Employment Practice Group.  David regularly counsels and, where necessary, defends employers before federal and state courts and administrative agencies at the federal, state, and local levels.  His clients include companies and corporations in the hospitality, financial services, entertainment, fashion, retail, manufacturing, construction, and publishing industries.  David maintains direct and continuous contact with clients (including human resources professionals and in-house counsel) through counseling, client alerts, webinars, onsite training, and internal audits.  He takes a preventive approach in the interpretation and implementation of federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations to lessen, if not eliminate, the percentage of legal exposure, cost, and surprise to clients.  David also trains, mentors, and supervises departmental attorneys in all areas of the law and serves as a “player-coach” in all venues, including mediation, arbitration, and litigation.

Prior to joining FRB, David served as a partner with Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. where he served as lead counsel in defending clients against individual, collective, and class action lawsuits in the fields of wage and hour and fair employment practices.  With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, David served as co-head of the Coronavirus Rapid Response Team for Ogletree Deakins in New York where he prepared return-to-work business safety plans, policies, procedures, and postings.

Throughout his career, David has been active in the labor and employment law fields. David served as Chair of the Wage & Hour Practice Group at Moses & Singer LLP where he designed and implemented client-specific policies, procedures, and training programs to facilitate compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations.  Having also previously served as Managing Attorney for the New York City Commission on Human Rights, David was responsible for the daily legal activities and operations of its Law Enforcement Bureau.  As such, David remains active in counseling clients on preventive policies, procedures, and programs to maintain compliance with federal, state, and local human rights laws and regulations.

David is a frequent lecturer and author of numerous articles on wage and hour and equal opportunity laws and regulations. In 2010, David was elected President of the New York City Chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association where he organized and conducted programs on developments in the fields of employment, labor, civil rights, and immigration. In 2012, David received the Samuel M. Kaynard Award for Excellence in the Fields of Labor & Employment Law, an honor recognizing his “strong ideals, accomplishments, keen legal acumen, and contributions to the field of labor law.”  In 2014, David was named a Super Lawyer in the Metro Edition of New York Super Lawyers