New York Labor Lawyers

Labor Law

600 Third Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10016-1915

Area of Practice: Labor and Employment Law A graduate of Columbia Law School (1962) and the University of Michigan (Economics) (1959), Michael is a labor and employment law attorney who began his career with the New York Regional Office of the National Labor Relations Board. Since entering private practice in 1965, he has represented management in all facets of labor and employment law, both in for-profit and not-for-profit settings, including in his capacities as Partner with Aranow, Brodsky, Bohlinger, Benetar, Einhorn & Dann; Partner with Benetar Isaacs Bernstein & Schair; Managing Partner with Benetar, Bernstein, Schair & Stein; and Senior Partner and now Of Counsel with Bond, Schoeneck & King. He is a frequent lecturer and, as well, contributing editor and author to major federal and state labor and employment law treatises and periodicals, and to Chambers Global Practice Guide, USA Regional Employment. In 2015 Michael was honored with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section. He also has been elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Association; a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; and a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation. In 1992, his firm, Benetar Bernstein Schair & Stein was the recipient of The Reliance Award for Excellence in Education, Outstanding Small Business in New York City. Michael has chaired the Labor & Employment Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and is a member of its Executive Committee. He has chaired, as well, both the Labor Committee of the New York City Bar Association and the Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee of the American Bar Association. Michael also is a long-standing member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and the NYU Labor and Employment Center’s Board of Advisors. He has served as well as a member of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Minorities in the Profession and as a judge in its annual Michael Oshima Essay Competition; as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Special Committee on Youth Outreach; and as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Law School Liaisons, including as a judge in its annual Emanuel and Kenneth Stein Law School Essay Competition. Michael has also served as a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department; as a member of the Privacy Initiative Task Force, New York State Bar Association; a member of the Governor’s Advisory Panel on Economic Development, New York State (Project 2000); a member of the Law Committee (Labor Section), American Arbitration Association; a member of the Lt. Governor’s Task Force on Plant Closings, New York State; Chair, Subcommittee, Project on Simplification of the Law, New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section; and Chair, Committee on Intake and Investigation, Task Force of New York State Division of Human Rights.

Labor Law

32 Old Slip, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10005

Labor Law

111 John St 22nd floor, New York, NY 10038, USA

Area of Practice: Employment, Education & Insurance Law Natalia Kapitonova, Esq. is the co-founding partner of Kapitonov & Kapitonova, P.C., with offices in Manhattan and White Plains, NY. She specializes in Employment, Insurance, Education, and Maritime Law litigation, as well as Appeals in State and Federal Courts. Before founding the firm, she worked with Stewart Karlin Law Group, P.C., and interned for Judge Anthony Fiorella Jr. in Kings County, where she contributed to published judicial decisions. She also has over a decade of experience in Immigration and Real Estate law. Ms. Kapitonova earned her law degree from New York Law School, where she received the Daniel Finkelstein Graduation Writing Award and was on the Dean’s High Honors List. She holds a cum laude undergraduate degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she was recognized as the most accomplished student-athlete in her graduating class. A former national swimmer, she represented Peru internationally. Her accolades include the 2019 Peru To The World Expo Award for excellence in law, the Lawyers of Distinction Award for Employment and Insurance Law, and various academic and athletic honors.

Labor Law

42 W Market St, Rhinebeck, NY 12572, USA

Area of Practice: Labor & Employment Nathaniel has acquired a wide range of experience within the field of labor and employment law. Since 1993, Nathaniel has engaged exclusively in the practice of labor and employment law representing individuals and union clients in litigation, administrative proceedings, collective bargaining and arbitration, as well as providing institutional clients with day-to-day counsel. Much of Nathaniel's work centers on employment matters, including employment contract negotiation, drafting and review, severance agreements, not-for-profit organizational development, wage and hour, discrimination, wrongful discharge, and breach of contract. Nathaniel enjoys appointment as one of CSEA, Local 1000, AFSCME's Regional Attorneys, providing the full breadth of legal representation to municipal workers in Rockland and Westchester County. Nathaniel served as Director of Legal Affairs for the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, in New York City from 2005 through 2007, where he managed the full breadth of legal affairs for this 20,000-member union comprising faculty and professional staff of the City University of New York. His responsibilities included: counsel on all matters for the union; principle supervision of all litigation and administrative proceedings; advocacy at arbitration proceedings; creating and implementing legal strategies to advance the interests and rights of PSC members; and serving as legal counsel to union leadership. From 1999 until 2002, he served as Assistant Counsel to the Writers Guild of America, East AFL-CIO, with primary responsibility for negotiating, implementing, and enforcing national, regional, and local collective bargaining agreements between writers and production companies and television networks. From 1993 until mid-1997, Nathaniel was an associate attorney at the New York City labor law firm Cohen, Weiss and Simon, where he represented labor unions in federal and state court litigation, as well as in contract negotiations, grievance and arbitrations.

Labor Law

820 2nd Ave 10th fl, New York, NY 10017, USA

University Attended: Brooklyn College, B.A., 2013 Law School Attended: Brooklyn Law School, J.D., Cum Laude, 2017 Admission: 2018, New York; 2018, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; 2024, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York