Albert J. Solecki, Jr.
Areas of Practice
Al Solecki is the chair of Goodwin Procter’s New York office, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice. He counsels businesses on how to avoid legal claims by employees and represents employers when they are the target of employment-related litigation or administrative proceedings.
Work for Clients
Mr. Solecki represents employers in all phases of labor and employment-related litigation. He appears regularly before federal and state courts and arbitration tribunals throughout the United States and has successfully defended employers in the consulting, construction, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, publishing, sports, transportation and technology industries. Mr. Solecki also has extensive experience representing employers and senior-level executives as lead trial counsel in restrictive covenant litigations involving allegations of employee raiding, theft of trade secrets and breach of non-competition and non-solicitation agreements. Mr. Solecki also counsels and advises employers on compliance with the ever increasingly complex web of federal, state, and local labor and employment laws and regulations. This counseling and advice ranges from drafting and reviewing general employment policies, employment agreements and employee handbooks to assisting with specific employee terminations and other employment-related decisions; from designing and implementing management seminars and training on new laws, regulations and court decisions to giving advice on difficult personnel actions such as plant closings, mass layoffs and the reduction or elimination of employee benefit programs. Mr. Solecki has extensive experience in counseling employers on how to minimize legal exposure in the context of a reduction in force and...more » Mr. Solecki represents employers in all phases of labor and employment-related litigation. He appears regularly before federal and state courts and arbitration tribunals throughout the United States and has successfully defended employers in the consulting, construction, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, publishing, sports, transportation and technology industries. Mr. Solecki also has extensive experience representing employers and senior-level executives as lead trial counsel in restrictive covenant litigations involving allegations of employee raiding, theft of trade secrets and breach of non-competition and non-solicitation agreements. Mr. Solecki also counsels and advises employers on compliance with the ever increasingly complex web of federal, state, and local labor and employment laws and regulations. This counseling and advice ranges from drafting and reviewing general employment policies, employment agreements and employee handbooks to assisting with specific employee terminations and other employment-related decisions; from designing and implementing management seminars and training on new laws, regulations and court decisions to giving advice on difficult personnel actions such as plant closings, mass layoffs and the reduction or elimination of employee benefit programs. Mr. Solecki has extensive experience in counseling employers on how to minimize legal exposure in the context of a reduction in force and has developed employee exit incentive programs for dozens of employers who have implemented reductions in force. Moreover, he regularly advises purchasers, sellers, and lenders on labor and employment law aspects of business mergers, acquisitions and restructurings. less »
Professional Activities
Mr. Solecki was selected for inclusion in the 2006 and 2007 editions of New York Super Lawyers. He is a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s Trial Training Program and is an active member of the American Bar Association. Mr. Solecki is a member of the ABA’s Section of Labor and Employment Law as well as its Section of Litigation, and he serves on the ABA’s Trial Practice Committee, its Committee on Employment and Labor Relations Law, and its Committee on Pretrial Practice and Discovery. In addition, he is a member of the New York Management Attorneys’ Conference (an honorary society of management-side labor and employment law attorneys who have practiced exclusively in the labor and employment law field for more than ten years and who have distinguished themselves in this field).
Publications/Presentations
Mr. Solecki has authored more than 20 published articles and book chapters on labor and employment law topics and regularly lectures on such topics. In addition, he is frequently quoted concerning labor and employment law trends in the general and legal media, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Investor’s Business Daily, Inc. Magazine, Adweek, Brandweek, Human Resource Executive, The Employment Law Strategist, The New York Law Journal, The Boston Herald, Business Insurance and GC New York.
Professional Experience
Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Solecki was a member of the Labor and Employment Law Department at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Bar and Court Admissions
Mr. Solecki is admitted to practice in New York.
Education
J.D., Villanova University School of Law, 1990
B.S., Georgetown University, 1985
While attending law school, Mr. Solecki was Managing Editor of the Villanova Environmental Law Journal, a member of the Villanova Moot Court Board and the recipient of the Bureau of National Affairs Award for Scholastic Performance.
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