Top Rated Employment & Labor Attorney in New York, NY

Russell S. Moriarty is a trial attorney with Levine & Blit, PLLC, and is based in the firm’s New York City office. Since joining the firm in 2009, he has focused his practice on employment law, primarily representing clients throughout the New York City area in matters regarding discrimination, severance agreements and unemployment insurance. Mr. Moriarty spent several years as an equities trader before transitioning his career into the practice of law.

Mr. Moriarty earned both his Bachelor of Business Administration and his Master of Business Administration from Hofstra University, receiving the latter in 1997. He was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, a widely recognized international honor society for business programs. Mr. Moriarty then went on to attend Fordham University School of Law and was awarded his Juris Doctor in 2004. Admitted to practice in New York, he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Mr. Moriarty began donating his time to organizations involved with human rights issues in 2004. In that year, he started working with Amnesty International as a volunteer researcher and also began work on the Media Monitoring Project. Mr. Moriarty co-authored a presentation that voiced the latter organization’s grievances with a license amendment application filed by the South African Broadcasting Corporation. That document was presented to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa in September 2004. Always seeking to stay current with developments in his field, Mr. Moriarty is a member of both the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York County Lawyers’ Association.

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