Dennis, Michael J.

JACK A. RAISNER is a partner to Outten & Golden LLP and co-chair of its Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act Practice Group.  In addition to the WARN Act, he has represented employees in matters involving overtime and minimum wage laws, executive employment and severance contracts, discrimination, pensions, and other matters before courts and agencies since 1991.

 

Mr. Raisner is the author of numerous articles and legal texts encompassing an extensive range of issues. He authored Pregnancy Discrimination and Parental Leave Handbook, (Panel/Aspen 2000). He has been update editor of Representing Employees in Title VII Actions, 2d Ed. ( Aspen ).  He is a contributing author of chapters in leading legal treatises, including ABA/BNA International Labor and Employment Laws, New York Employment Law, Employment Litigation in New York, Disability Discrimination in the Workplace and West's General Practice in New York. His articles have appeared in law journals, including the New York Law Journal and the New York State Bar Association Labor and Employment Newsletter. He speaks regularly at American Bar Association and National Employment Lawyer Association conferences on lawyers' ethics in federal labor law class actions.  He serves as a Member of the Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Labor and Employment Editorial Advisory Board.

 

Since 1991, Mr. Raisner has taught at St. John's University , Tobin College of Business, where he is Professor of Law.

 

Mr. Raisner received his B.S. degree from Boston University in 1978 and his J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1983.