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Amy Habib Rittling, a Partner with Lippes Mathias, serves as Team Leader for the firm’s Employment Practice Team. She concentrates her practice in employment and general business law and litigation. Her employment law experience includes counseling and advising employers on all aspects of employment relationships and employment practices and policies. She also regularly assists employers with workplace investigations and self-audits. Ms. Habib Rittling also represents employers before administrative agencies including the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New York State Division of Human Rights, the U.S. Department of Labor, the New York State Department of Labor and other various state and local employment agencies. She frequently defends clients in legal claims involving: discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, state and federal wage and hour laws, and the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Ms. Habib Rittling also frequently serves as a mediator and in that capacity has mediated and facilitated the resolution of employment law claims and disputes.
Ms. Habib Rittling also counsels independent schools in all areas of school law and compliance issues.
Prior to returning to Buffalo, Ms. Habib Rittling served as Special Assistant to Commissioner Leslie E. Silverman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Ms. Habib Rittling also frequently serves as a mediator and in that capacity has mediated and facilitated the resolution of employment law claims and disputes.
Ms. Habib Rittling also counsels independent schools in all areas of school law and compliance issues.
Prior to returning to Buffalo, Ms. Habib Rittling served as Special Assistant to Commissioner Leslie E. Silverman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Author, "Amendments to wage theft act work both ways," Guest Column, Buffalo Law Journal, February 2015
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