Dovitz, Clifford J

ANNE GOLDEN is a partner and co-founder of the firm of Outten & Golden LLP.

Ms. Golden joined Lankenau Kovner & Outten, LLP, O&G's predecessor, in 1994. She and Wayne N. Outten formed Outten & Golden LLP in September 1998, concentrating in employment counseling and litigation on behalf of employees.

She has litigated groundbreaking cases in the employment field, involving summary judgment, retaliation, and attorneys' fees, and has negotiated many agreements on behalf of executives and other employees.

Ms. Golden is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and a member of the Executive Board of NELA/NY, its New York affiliate, and she writes "Anne's Squibs," a review of recent cases, for the NELA/NY newsletter. She is a member of the New York State and American Bar Associations and of their Labor and Employment Sections, as well as an active member of NELA and NELA/NY. She also chairs a monthly meeting, "NELA Nite," on such topics as settlement of employment disputes, use of economic experts in litigation, summary judgment, and appeals. She has spoken and written extensively on topics including case selection, summary judgment, and insurance issues in employment law, as well as creative methods for resolving employment disputes when no law applies, and has been published in the New York Law Journal.

Ms. Golden is a graduate of Antioch College (1967) and Rutgers Law School-Newark (1978), where she was Managing Editor of the Rutgers Law Review. Ms. Golden clerked in 1978-79 for the Hon. Edmund L. Palmieri, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. From 1979 to 1982 she was associated with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, and since 1985 she has exclusively represented and counseled individuals on employment issues.

She is admitted to the bars of New York State and the federal courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.