My guest on Wednesday is Samuel Estreicher, NYU’s Dwight Opperman Professor of Law and an expert on labor and employment law. Our subject will be labor law reform and how government can assist in the creation of jobs.

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Mr. Estreicher is a endowed Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and Director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law and the Institute of Judicial Administration.  He has published several books including leading casebooks in labor law and employment discrimination and employment law; edited conference volumes on sexual harassment, employment ADR processes, and cross-global human resources; and authored over 100 articles in professional and academic journals.  He is the Secretary of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association, a former chair of the Committee on Labor and Employment Law of the Association of the Bar for the City of New York, and chief reporter of the new Restatement of Employment Law, sponsored by the American Law Institute.

In 1975, Mr. Estreicher obtained his law degree from Columbia University, where he was editor-in-chief of Columbia Law Review. He graduated in 1974 from Cornell University with his master's degree and was a Herbert H. Lehman Fellow.  At Columbia College, he received his bachelor's degree in 1970 as a Joseph Pulitzer Fund Scholar.  During 1977, Mr. Estreicher clerked for the late Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the Supreme Court and the late Harold Leventhal of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  He is admitted to practice in New York and Washington, D.C.

Samuel Estreicher is also of counsel in the Labor and Employment  and Issues and Appeals practice groups of Jones Day,  resident in the New York office.  His practice focuses on the wide range of issues affecting the employment relationship, including designing ADR systems, training supervisors for performance-based management and employee involvement initiatives, advising clients in OFCCP, EEO and labor relations compliance and representing clients in individual, global HR management, and class EEO and Wage and Hour litigation.