Attorney and Paralegal profiles

Simon I. Allentuch

New Haven, Connecticut

Principal
phone	203-821-2000
fax	203-821-2009
email	Email Me

 

Simon Allentuch has a broad civil litigation practice including commercial litigation, bankruptcy litigation and class litigation.  He has represented clients successfully in business tort, contract, environmental, restrictive covenant, consumer fraud and professional negligence lawsuits.  Mr. Allentuch represents clients in state and federal court, at the trial level and on appeal, in arbitrations and before various administrative agencies including the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities and the National Labor Relations Board.

Mr. Allentuch also serves as both general and labor and employment counsel for many clients, providing both counseling and litigation services. He regularly counsels and represents clients on various liability and regulatory issues as well as a wide range of labor and employment issues such as traditional labor relations, discrimination, harassment, terminations, layoffs, reasonable accommodations for disabled employees, investigation of employee complaints, application of the state and federal family and medical leave acts and interpretation of the wage and hour laws. Mr. Allentuch drafts and provides advice on employment contracts, restrictive covenants, severance agreements and the implementation of employment manuals, policies and procedures.

Mr. Allentuch graduated with Departmental and University Honors from the University of Chicago in 1990 with a Bachelors of Arts in European History, and received his law degree from New York University School of Law in 1993. During law school, Mr. Allentuch was an Associate Editor for the Review of Law and Social Change.

 

Year Joined Organization:

2001

Areas of Practice:

Commercial Litigation

Labor and Employment Law

Class Litigation

Environmental Litigation

Bar Admissions:

Connecticut

U.S. District Court District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court Northern District of New York

U.S. District Court Southern District of New York

11th Circuit Court of Appeals

United States Supreme Court

Education:

New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1993
  Law Review: Review of Law and Social Change, Associate Editor

University of Chicago, 1990, B.A.
 Honors: Departmental and University Honors
 Major:  European History