Wendi S Lazar
WENDI S. LAZAR is a partner at Outten & Golden LLP in New York where she co-heads the firm’s Individual Practice and the Executives and Professionals Practice Group. Ms. Lazar practices in many areas of employment law with a focus on executive agreements, including retention, expatriate, non-competition, talent, severance, and compensation arrangements. She also represents teams of executives, founders and partners transitioning during a sale, merger and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. Ms. Lazar’s practice is international in scope, and she advises clients and attorneys in the U.S. and abroad on employment, contract, and often related immigration issues. Ms. Lazar represents individuals, partners, and management teams at portfolio and public companies, financial institutions (including banks, hedge funds, private equity companies), and entertainment, advertising and media companies. She also represents law partners and associates, accounting professionals, doctors and medical practitioners in all transactional matters. Ms. Lazar was appointed as a commissioner by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women, where she heads the Sexual Harassment and Gender Based Bullying Committee.
Ms. Lazar is the Diversity Co-Chair and a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Labor & Employment Section, and is an active member of NELA, ABA and NYSBA committees. She is former Employee Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section’s International Labor and Employment Law Committee.
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Executive and Severance Agreements
- Wrongful Termination
- Non-competition and Non-solicitation agreements
- Entertainment Agreements
- Partnership Agreements
- New York
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- English
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- J.D. | Law
- Honors: Cum Laude
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- Best Lawyer 2012-2019
- Best Lawyers in America
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyer 2013-2018
- Lawdragon
- Super Lawyer 2012-2018
- Super Lawyers
- 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers
- Lawdragon
- Top Women in the Law
- New York Law Journal
- New York State Bar Association
- Executive Committee, International Labor and Employment Committee
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- Section of Labor and Employment Law of the American Bar Association
- Former Co-chair International Labor and Employment Law Committee
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- National Employment Lawyers Association
- Chair, Executives and Professionals Committee
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- Commission on Women in the Profession
- Past Commissioner
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- International Women's Rights Committee of the Women's Bar of the State of New York
- Former Chair
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- Diversity Committee, New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) Labor & Employment Section
- Co-Chair
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- Work Life Law, UC Hastings College of Law
- Board Member
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- Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- Former Member, International Human Rights Committee
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- International Bar Association
- Member
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- Zero Tolerance: Best Practices For Combating Sex-Based Harassment In The Legal Profession, Editor
- American Bar Association
- AI Exposes Employees to Increased Security and Privacy Risks
- O&G Employment Law Blog
- The Very Real Threat of AI in the Workplace
- O&G Employment Law Blog
- Wall Street Keeps #MeToo Under Wraps
- O&G Employment Law Blog
- Bullying in the Legal Profession
- O&G Employment Law Blog
- Speaker: "u Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Key Lessons from the 2018 Report of on Racial and Gender Bias in the Legal Profession," ABA Employment Rights & Responsibilities Committee, Midwinter Meeting (Las Vegas, NV) 2019
- Mod.: "The College of Labor & Employment Program: Setting the Bar: The Elimination of Unprofessional Conduct Toward Women and Minorities," ABA Labor & Employment Section, 12th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference (San Francisco, CA) 2018
- Speaker: "TBA," New York State Bar Association, Labor & Employment Fall Meeting (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) 2018
- Mod.: "Will Women Survive at Law Firms? Taking up the challenges of a diminishing population amidst the #MeToo movement, diversity challenges, and work-life balance," NYSBA, Labor & Employment Law Section Fall Meeting (Montreal, Canada) 2018
- Panelist: "Protecting Business Interests in Int'l Team Moves – Pursuing Litigation, and Enforcing Orders and Awards Across Borders," Global Business Protections 2018 One Day Int'l Restrictive Covenants and Confidential Information Conference (London, UK)
Outten & Golden LLP partner Wendi S. Lazar
Outten & Golden partner Wendi S. Lazar talks candidly about her love for the work she does at the firm.
Social Media in the Workplace, with Wendi Lazar of Outten and Golden, LLP
Outten & Golden LLP Partner Wendi S. Lazar speaks about social media in the workplace.
Computer Privacy in the Workplace, Featuring Attorney Wendi Lazar of Outten and Golden, LLP
Wendi S. Lazar, partner at Outten & Golden LLP, talks about computer privacy policies in the workplace.
