About
Partner Naomi Shatz focuses on college students rights, university field, and worker rights. She represents college students at all levels of education from elementary faculty through graduate faculty, as well as teachers and professors concerned in discrimination cases and disciplinary complaints concerning claims of sexual attack, sexual harassment, and academic misconduct. Naomi also advises and represents individuals in employment topics and criminal instances.
Naomi has been decided on to the Rising Stars list via Super Lawyers each yr on the grounds that 2016. In 2018, Naomi changed into named an Up & Coming Lawyer by using Massachusetts Law Weekly.
Prior to becoming a member of Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP, Naomi turned into a Skadden Fellow and a body of workers lawyer with the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). Naomi represented one of the first students in the united states of america alleging discrimination with the aid of his school for ignoring his complaints of harassment with the aid of different students based totally on a failure to conform to gender stereotypes. Naomi helped her customer steady a settlement in which the school district no longer handiest compensated the pupil however agreed to overhaul its policies and practices for preventing and addressing harassment of students. She additionally represented New York City public college students in a category-motion healthy difficult police practices in the faculties.
At Yale Law School Naomi changed into a dealing with editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, an editor of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, and chair of Law Students for Reproductive Justice. She helped located the school’s Domestic Violence Clinic, where she represented survivors of home violence in circle of relatives law subjects.
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Legal Issues
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Education Law
Costs
Certificates
Languages
- English
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Partner
Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP
2012 - Law Clerk to the Hon. Ralph D. Gants
Hon. Raymond S. Wilkins, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
2011 - Fellow & Staff Lawyer
New York Civil Liberties Union Skadden
2009 - Skadden Fellow
Legal Momentum
2008 - Law Student Intern
Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic
2007 - Supervising Student, Law Student Intern
Community Lawyering Clinic/Domestic Violence Clinic
2006 - Legal Intern
Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit, University of Cape Town
2006
Educations
Graduation year: 2008
Graduation year: 2004