THOMPSON WIGDOR & GILLY LLP

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP Wins a $1.2 Million Dollar Jury Verdict in a Race Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Trial

On December 20, 2007, Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP won a $1.2 million dollar verdict after a two-week jury trial in Manhattan Federal Court in Nurse v. Concepts in Staffing, Inc. At trial, Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP represented a Black Controller of a company who was repeatedly called a "Black Bitch" in the workplace and who was also groped, disrespected and degraded by the owner of the company.

Employment Law 360º
January 2, 2008 » Read article.

New York Post
January 2, 2008 » Read article.

Daily News
December 22, 2007 » Read article. | Read online version.

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP Wins Multi-Million Dollar Verdict on Behalf of Former Editor-in-Chief of The Source Magazine

Daily News
New York Post
October 24, 2006

After a two week trial, a jury in Manhattan Federal Court returned a multi-million dollar verdict on behalf of Kim Osorio. The jury found that Ms. Osorio was retaliated against when she filed a complaint of discrimination and was defamed when the co-owner of the Source, Raymond Scott (aka "Benzino"), claimed that she attempted to extort the Source. Individual defendant and co-owner David Mays was also found liable.

The Village Voice
November 23, 2005
The New York Post
April 12, 2005

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Jury Returns Verdict for $7.5 Million in Disability Discrimination Case Against Wal-Mart

The New York Times
Newsday
February 24, 2005

After an eight day trial in the Eastern District of New York, a federal jury returned a verdict of $7.5 million against Wal-Mart and an individual manager for discriminating against a disabled man with cerebal palsy. This jury verdict is one of the largest ever rendered under the ADA and has received worldwide media attention.

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP Represents Family of Steam Accident Victim in their Lawsuit Against Con Edison

Daily News
July 13, 2008
New York Times
July 30, 2007
New York Times
New York Post
Newsday
July 31, 2007

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP represents the family of Gregory McCullough, the 21-year-old young man who was driving the tow truck at the center of the Con Edison steampipe explosion in midtown Manhattan and was left critically injured with third degree burns over 80 percent of his body. Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP also represents Judith Bailey, the passenger who sustained severe burns over 30 percent of her body.

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NBC TODAY Show, November 2, 2007 (wmv)

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP Represents Student in Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Lawsuit Against Hofstra University

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP represents graduate student Lauren Summa in a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Hofstra University. As detailed in the Complaint, while employed as a student athletic manager on the football team, Ms. Summa was subjected to unrelenting acts of harassment at the hands of male student football players who locked her in a bathroom and demeaned her with sexually offensive comments. Ms. Summa reported the conduct to team coaches who ignored her complaints and fired her. This case has received national media attention.

Newsday
January 31, 2008 » Read article.

New York Post
January 30, 2008 » Read article.

Daily News
January 30, 2008 » Read article.

Sports Illustrated
January 30, 2008 » Link to article

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Ocean Beach Police Scandal

Long Island Newsday
March 22, 27, 28, 29, 2007
New York Post
March 28, 2007
New York Daily News
March 28, 2007
The New York Times
March 28, 2007

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP currently represents a group of five former police officers from the Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, a seaside resort located on Fire Island, who allege that Ocean Beach, the Ocean Beach Police Department, Acting Chief George Hesse and others unlawfully terminated their employment in response to their opposition to, and refusal to participate in, a regime marred by corruption, scandal and police brutality.

The five officers, who comprise approximately 35 years of dedicated police service to the Village of Ocean Beach, claim that they were summarily terminated after they breached the "Blue Wall of Silence" by, among other things, refusing to amend official documents and cooperate in the cover-up of a violent incident of police brutality against three civilians, as well as for complaining about Acting Chief Hesse's selective enforcement of the laws.

This case has received significant television and print media attention and has led to indictments by the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.

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WNBC, March 22, 2007

WCBS, March 22, 2007

News 12 - Long Island, March 23, 2007

WNBC, NewsChannel 4, March 27, 2007

WABC, Eyewitness News, March 27, 2007

Class Action Discrimination Case Against Sojitz

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP represents Arnold Schanfield and a proposed class of similar employees in a race and national origin discrimination suit against Sojitz Corporation of American ("SCA").

Mr. Schanfield was the former Chief Internal Auditor of SCA and his Class Action Complaint alleges a pattern and practice of discrimination against non-Japanese/non-Asian employees which includes the deliberate exclusion of non-Japanese from management as well as unequal pay and disciplinary standards based on race and national origin. This case has received worldwide media attention.

Bloomberg.com
November 1, 2007 » Read article.

Yahoo News Singapore
November 1, 2007 » Read article.

Japan Today.com
November 2, 2007 » Read article.

Employment Law 360
November 2, 2007 » Read article.

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United States v. Guzman

In March 2007, Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP successfully represented a client who was charged by Federal Prosecutors in Brooklyn with smuggling almost a kilogram of heroin into the country through John F. Kennedy International Airport. At trial, TWG obtained a not guilty verdict for the client. It took over the defense of the client after a previous jury deadlocked 11 to 1 to convict him.

Read United States v. Jorge Guzman Indictment (pdf)

Landmark Discrimination Case on Behalf of American Executives and Employees at Marubeni

The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
January 20, 2005

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP represented a group of executives and employees at a New York based Japanese Company, Marubeni, who alleged that they and other non-Asian and non-Japanese employees were subjected to rampant unlawful discrimination on the basis of their race, gender, and/or national origin. The case received worldwide media attention.

Gender Discrimination Class Action Complaint Against Dresdner Kleinwort

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP represented individual women in an alleged gender discrimination class action complaint against Dresdner Kleinwort.

Sexual Harassment Case Filed Against Private School in Long Island

Newsday
The New York Post
September 22, 2005

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP currently represents a former employee of the West Hills Montessori School/Gersh Academy in a gender discrimination claim in which the owner of the schools, Kevin Gersh, consistently and repeatedly sexually harassed female employees. The startling allegations received wide-spread media attention in the New York press.

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP Represented a UBS Investment Banker in Connection with the HealthSouth Scandal

The Wall Street Journal
SEC.gov
July 26, 2004

After revealing information concerning the HealthSouth scandal, a UBS Investment Banker was told that he would be terminated immediately. After retaining Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP and threatening to file a claim under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Investment Banker was promoted and given a considerable bonus at year end.

July 26, 2004 Wall Street Journal article (pdf)

Hollywood Video Criminal Trial and Civil Suit

Daily News, March 23, 2004
New York Times, March 13, 2004
Newsday, March 2, 2004
Daily News, March 2, 2004

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP won an acquittal at trial of a Hollywood Video Store Manager who was falsely accused of multiple rapes, sexual assaults and other sex offenses by six former store employees who testified at trial. The Store Manager was charged in a 25 count indictment and faced 135 years in prison. Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP is currently defending the former Store Manager in a $50 million civil case brought by 11 current and former Hollywood Video employees.

Fraud and Breach of Contract Complaint Filed Against National Law Firm

New York Law Journal, July 27, 2005
ABA Journal, August 5, 2005
San Francisco Business Times, August 12, 2005
New York Law Journal, September 30, 2005

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP currently represents a former Senior Associate of Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe who has filed a lawsuit against the Firm and several individually named partners alleging that he was promised in writing to be put-up for partner in an effort to prevent him from leaving — only for that promise to be broken.

Emmett Till

New York Law Journal, July 2, 2004
Time Magazine, May 24, 2004
New York Times, May 11, 2004
Daily News, April 14, 2004
Newsday, April 14, 2004
Newsday, April 4, 2004
Daily News, April 7, 2004
Newsday, March 23, 2004

Upon being retained by filmmaker Keith Beauchamp, Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP helped convince the United States Department of Justice to re-open the 1955 murder of 14-year old Emmett Till, which was one of the most horrific murders in the history of the civil rights movement. In connection with the case, Mr. Thompson has been featured on Good Morning America, and in The New York Times, Newsday and The Daily News.

Macy's Class Action

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP represented a group of individuals who brought claims of racial profiling against Macy's East Department stores which received significant media attention.

Claims of Race Discrimination at Radianz, Reuters PLC and Equant N.V.

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP represented a group of former Radianz employees who brought claims of race discrimination against Radianz, Reuters PLC and Equant N.V. These claims received international media coverage including the BBC, the London Independent and Fox News.

Nassau County Litigation

NY Times
Long Island Press
May 26 - June 1, 2005

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP represents several former and current Nassau County executives in connection with the investigation of the former Deputy County Executive for Economic Development and the recent attention surrounding the Nassau County Executive. One of these lawsuits was reported as the basis of convening a Grand Jury investigation into Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi.

Pregnancy Discrimination at United Way

Poughkeepsie Journal
January 30, 2004

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP represented a former employee of the United Way of Dutchess County in a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against the United Way that has received considerable attention in the media following the resignation of one of the named-defendants and former executive director of the United Way of Dutchess County.

New York City Firehouse Sit-In

New York Post
July 15, 2003

Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP negotiated a dismissal of charges against actor Steve Buscemi and other protestors, after they locked arms to protest the closing of a historic firehouse in Brooklyn, New York.

Abner Louima Federal Civil Rights Trial
	Newsday Columnist Jimmy Breslin May 5, 1999 "Nobody shifted, nor did a sound come from any throat when Kenneth Thompson, an Assistant United States Attorney, stood in front of the jury..."


	New York Post May 5, 1999 "As the packed Brooklyn Federal courtroom hung on his every word, Thompson bombarded the jury with graphic descriptions of unimaginable violence and abuse of power."

	CNN May 4, 1999 Mr. Thompson's opening was "in graphic detail that at times made jurors wince."

Waco Investigation

Mr. Thompson wrote part of the offical report President Clinton received regarding the raid on the Branch Davidian Compound by Federal Agents. The report has been described as:

"Brutally detailed." New York Times

"A thorough and candid account of a... law enforcement disaster." Washington Post

"Courageous, candid evaluation." Los Angeles Times

NLRB v. Major League Baseball Player Relations Committee

The American Lawyer

Mr. Gilly was a member of the legal team representing Major League Baseball in the 1994 collective bargaining negotiations and unfair labor practice litigation in the Southern District of New York and the Second Circuit.

Articles, Speeches and Other Notables
	Press Interviews Messrs. Thompson, Wigdor, and Gilly have frequently been interviewed and quoted in the national television and print media.
	Office Romances Mr. Wigdor comments on agreements covering intimate relationships in the workplace. Play clip (wmv)

	NYSDHR Advocate Award In October 2005, Mr. Thompson was the recipient of the prestigious "Advocate Award" by the New York State Division of Human Rights on the 60th anniversary of the New York State Human Rights Law.

	New York Law Journal Profiles The Firm Feb. 21, 2003 The premiere legal publication in New York highlights the founding of Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP.

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