New York Constitutional Lawyers

Constitutional Law

233 Broadway, Suite 1720, New York, NY 10279

Focusing his practice exclusively on civil rights law, Brett Klein brings a quarter century of focus, expertise and results to provide skilled representation to individuals and their family members whose rights have been illegally violated by law enforcement officers or other government officials. Mr. Klein has represented countless victims of government abuse and corruption, including wrongful death and unjust convictions, and victims of prison rape, excessive force and unlawful strip searches. He has extensive experience representing clients who have suffered traumatic brain injuries, orbital fractures, broken jaws, emotional distress and other needless injuries at the hands of police and corrections officers.

Constitutional Law

40 Rector Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10006

Area of Practice: Human Rights & Civil Rights Law Janet Herold is the Legal Director of Justice Catalyst Law. Prior to joining Justice Catalyst Law, she served as the Department of Labor’s Regional Solicitor for the Western Region, leading creative and groundbreaking litigation addressing a wide array of worker exploitation, including employment discrimination, wage theft, retaliation, and misuse and waste of employee pensions and health funds. Notably, she brought the largest pay discrimination case ever filed by the federal government, anchored and led the DOL’s efforts to redress employee misclassification as independent contractors, and pioneered the use of the early injunction to protect vulnerable and immigrant workers from retaliation and threats of immediate physical harm. Prior to becoming Regional Solicitor, Ms. Herold was Associate General Counsel for the Service Employees International Union, leading the National Wage and Hour Project and serving as litigation counsel to classes of immigrant or vulnerable workers, including developing and bringing groundbreaking litigation securing immediate injunctive relief for misclassified warehouses workers moving goods for Walmart. Both before and while at SEIU, Ms. Herold also maintained a private practice, leading creative class action litigation representing workers seeking redress for severe workplace exploitation, trafficking, and myriad forms of wage theft, including successfully securing utilizing California’s taxpayer redress statute to secure redress for a statewide class of incarcerated workers. Ms. Herold is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Notre Dame with degrees in Mathematics and English.

Constitutional Law

99 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA

Jonathan C. Moore became a partner of the firm in 2006. His area of practice is civil rights with a focus on police and governmental misconduct, employment discrimination, First Amendment advocacy and international human rights. He has successfully litigated significant cases both on behalf of individuals and as class counsel in cases involving systemic misconduct in police departments in New York and throughout the country. He practices in both federal and state courts, at both the trial and appellate levels. Educational background: DePaul University College of Law (J.D. 1977), Magna Cum Laude. Admitted: New York, California, Illinois. Practice areas: Civil Rights, International Human Rights, and Employment Law.

Constitutional Law

10 Moffatt Lane, Chester, NY 10918

Michael Meth, Esq. is a litigating attorney who was admitted to practice in New York State in 1998. Michael Meth, Esq. practices in local courts, Supreme Court, County Court, Integrated Domestic Violence Courts, Federal District Courts, the Appellate Terms, the Appellate Divisions, and the Federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals. ? Michael Meth, Esq. has also represented Municipalities, Village and Town Boards, Planning Boards, and Zoning Boards of Appeals.

Constitutional Law

45 Broadway suite 2800, New York, NY 10006, USA

Area of Practice: Civil Rights Law Michelle Caiola is a fierce and committed litigator, seeking justice for those experiencing sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and pregnancy discrimination. With her demonstrated success in court and deep knowledge of the law, Michelle can expertly handle any discrimination case from start to finish. Each year, she negotiates millions of dollars in settlements for her clients. Michelle never hesitates to take on powerful entities for her diverse range of clients including executives in finance, technology, media and pharmaceuticals, doctors, lawyers, and models. Michelle is also experienced in handling high profile sexual assault cases. She currently represents women that have been abused by Hip Hop Mogul Sean Combs, a billionaire businessman, and other public figures. Michelle began litigating employment discrimination lawsuits as an attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). While there, Michelle expertly handled class-action lawsuits pertaining to sexual harassment, race, national origin, age, and disability discrimination in the workplace. Among the many notable cases from her years at EEOC, she led a high-profile glass-ceiling sex discrimination lawsuit against Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley, which settled for $54 million. She also played a key role in litigating a large precedent-setting sexual harassment suit against Mitsubishi, a car manufacturing plant in Illinois, which settled for $34 million, and an important class-wide age discrimination suit against a major retailer, which settled for $3.5 million. Michelle was awarded EEOC’s highest honor, the EEOC Chair’s Organizational Award, three times. While overseeing legal departments at Legal Momentum and then Equal Rights Advocates, two women’s rights non-profit organizations, Michelle focused on winning pregnancy and sex discrimination lawsuits on behalf of women law professors and service workers, as well as women working in non-traditional jobs, such as police officers, firefighters, shipyard workers, and tradeswomen. Michelle has been a strong advocate for women receiving workplace pregnancy accommodations and job protections related to domestic violence. Michelle also has a wealth of experience litigating on behalf of people with disabilities. While serving as Managing Director of Disability Rights Advocates in New York City, she achieved numerous court victories and negotiated impactful settlements. In 2020, she was personally awarded the Law360 MVP based on highly significant legal rulings she obtained while litigating five separate class-action cases brought against the Metropolitan Transit Authority to achieve subway access for individuals that cannot use stairs due to a disability. As a long-standing workplace advocate, Michelle has testified at government hearings and presented at employment discrimination conferences. She has co-authored several employment discrimination Amicus Briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court: Women’s Rights Organizations in Support of Respondent, Mach Mining, LLC v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (regarding a woman applicant for a coal mining position), November 2014; Law Professors and Women’s Rights Organizations in Support of Petitioner, Peggy Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc. (supporting pregnancy accommodations at work), May 2013. Michelle attended Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and received her Juris Doctor with distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law. She completed her undergraduate degree at Kent State University in Ohio. Michelle is a member of the bar in New York and Missouri. She is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, the Northern District of California, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits, and the Supreme Court of the United States. She is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association, the New York State Bar Association, the City Bar of New York, and the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers.