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Julie Levinson Werner

Partner
Vice Chair, Employment

New York / Roseland
T: +1 212.419.5864 / +1 973.597.2550 F: +1 973.597.2551 jwerner@lowenstein.com
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With nearly 30 years of experience as a management-side employment attorney, Julie Levinson Werner is a trusted advisor and employer defense litigator representing companies in New York, New Jersey, and across the country. Serving as both employment law counselor and litigator, Julie provides strategic advice to clients ranging from startups to public companies across a wide variety of sectors, including technology, life sciences, financial services, and real estate.  

Julie guides board members, senior management, general counsel, and human resources executives through high stakes crises and day-to-day workplace challenges, identifying practical strategies and efficient options to mitigate legal risk and reputational damage. She advises on such issues as harassment and discrimination claims, wrongful termination, worker misclassification, social media policies, employee handbook review, non-compete agreements, wage and hour compliance, and hiring and recruiting best practices. Julie also provides training on discrimination/harassment prevention and managing employees, and regularly serves as workplace investigation counsel for employers navigating such sensitive internal matters as harassment, discrimination, and whistleblower claims. In addition, Julie frequently advises on employee mobility issues, including trade secret litigation and restrictive covenant enforcement.

When necessary to litigate on behalf of her clients, Julie is a zealous advocate. She successfully argued the landmark case Silvestri v. Optus Software, Inc. before the New Jersey Supreme Court, which remains a key precedent governing performance-based employment contracts in the state. She has represented employers in federal and state courts on a wide variety of claims, including harassment and discrimination, wrongful termination, trade secret theft, and unfair competition. Julie also has extensive experience in mediation and administrative proceedings before the EEOC and state agencies.

A frequent contributor to trade publications and client newsletters, Julie has written numerous articles emphasizing litigation-avoidance strategies for employers and has commented on employment law matters in such publications as The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Counseling

  • Regularly counsel New York-based technology startups and other corporate clients on employment law compliance, including high risk terminations
  • Regularly counsel on and resolve difficult employment disputes for clients in matters alleging workplace harassment, discrimination, and wrongful termination, and advise on employer defense strategies
  • Negotiate settlements of sexual and other harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and breach of contract claims
  • Advise senior executives and boards of directors on executive hirings and terminations

Litigation

  • Obtained and defended against multiple applications for injunctive relief on restrictive covenant agreements, including for international information technology company, wholesale food distributor, and health care service provider
  • Obtained dismissal of disability discrimination claim against medical cosmetic surgery company
  • Obtained defense jury verdict for prominent real estate investment trust in disability discrimination and retaliation trial
  • Defended advertising agency in discrimination and harassment claims in arbitration
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Education

  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D. 1996), magna cum laude

    Cornell University (B.A. 1993), with distinction

Affiliations

  • New Jersey District V-C Fee Arbitration Committee (May 2021-August 2028)
  • New Jersey District V-C Ethics Committee (September 2015-August 2019)

Admissions

  • New York
  • New Jersey

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