4 HSW Partners Named to 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers Guide

July 29, 2024

Prestigious global legal directory Lawdragon has selected four Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler partners for its 2024 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers guide, which honors the nation’s top advocates in the practice area. 

The list recognizes founding and managing partner Jonathan Harris and partners David Wechsler, Todd Gutfleisch and Kim Michael for their accomplishments in employment litigation on behalf of clients across the country.

Harris advises companies, C-suite executives, founders, portfolio managers and top producers in employment, partnership and business matters, and represents clients facing internal, regulatory and criminal investigations. His cases have resulted in record-breaking awards, reshaped interpretations of employment law and enhanced protections for business leaders nationwide.

Wechsler leads the firm’s employment practice and has represented senior executives and companies for more than 40 years. He has secured more than 100 arbitration awards and guided many other disputes to favorable settlements, and has extensive experience litigating and arbitrating compensation, discrimination, defamation and restrictive covenant cases.

Gutfleisch has spent three decades handling employment disputes for high-ranking employees and C-suite members, including those employed in the financial services industry. In addition to practicing before regulatory and arbitration tribunals, government agencies and courts, Todd also negotiates and mediates high-value agreements and disputes between employees and their employers.

Michael is a go-to advocate for C-suite members and high-ranking executives facing employment disputes, especially in the financial services and securities sectors. Her practice involves compensation, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, severance, discrimination, retaliation, harassment, whistleblowing and defamation.