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Timestamp: 2019-04-18 11:25:43+00:00

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Debra L. Greenberger is an experienced litigator who represents clients in commercial and civil rights matters. She has extensive class action experience, including representing classes of defrauded consumers, underpaid workers, and inmates who suffered from excessive force while incarcerated at Rikers Island. She also represents individual clients who suffer employment or housing discrimination, who are falsely arrested or abused by police officers, or who are abused by correctional officers. She also brought a constitutional challenge on behalf of women forced to submit to gynecological exams.
Ms. Greenberger’s commercial practice includes contract and tort disputes, as well as constitutional challenges to government regulations, at both the trial and appellate level. She has represented a broad range of companies, institutions, and individuals, from start-ups, to real estate developers, to the taxi industry, to the New York City Council, to merchant groups objecting to interchange fees, among others.
She also advises executives, employees, and management on employment matters and advises students and their families on academic discipline issues.
Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Ms. Greenberger clerked for the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and for the Honorable Edward R. Korman of the Eastern District of New York. While attending the New York University School of Law, she served as an Articles Editor for the N.Y.U. Law Review and represented clients in the Immigrant Rights Clinic.
Secured a $60 million settlement on behalf of New Yorkers who alleged fraudulent debt collection practices. Sykes v. Mel S. Harris and Associates LLC.
Represented Roger Clemens’s trainer, Brian McNamee, in competing defamation lawsuits in Texas and New York. Obtained complete dismissal of Mr. Clemens’ Texas lawsuit. Confidential settlement of Mr. McNamee’s New York lawsuit.
Together with the Legal Aid Society, obtained a historic injunctive settlement to reform the widespread abuse of prisoners by correction staff on Rikers Island. Also obtained $3.5 million in damages for the named plaintiffs in the case, Nunez v. City of New York.
Obtained a $2 million settlement for a man who died of untreated alcohol withdrawal while incarcerated at Manhattan Detention Complex. Livermore v. City of New York.
Currently represents African-American college student who was the victim of police shooting in Westchester County. Cox v. Village of Pleasantville.
Successfully represented John Doe Anti-Terrorism Officer, a high-profile anti-discrimination case on behalf of a former member of the elite Cyber Unit of the New York Police Department. John Doe Anti-Terrorism Officer v. City of New York.
Obtained complete dismissal of $45 million lawsuit brought by Donald Trump in a Tel Aviv real estate dispute. Trump Marks v. Crescent Heights.
Represented New York City taxi fleet owners (MTBOT) in numerous litigations against the Taxi and Limousine Commission and New York City.
Represented outdoor advertising company in First Amendment challenge to government sign regulation. Metro Fuel v. City of New York.
Represented EchoStar, the national satellite television provider, in the successful appeal of an adverse judgment in a dispute involving the right to broadcast the high-definition feeds of Disney’s television programming. EchoStar v. ESPN.
Counsel to Ford Models, Inc. in unfair competition litigation against competitor. Ford Models, Inc. v. Next Management LLC; Ford Models, Inc. v. Spears.
Represented the New York City Council where then-Mayor Bloomberg challenged the legality of duly-enacted local legislation and obtained dismissal of real estate developers lawsuit seeking to invalidate Local Law 44, which requires contractors receiving city funding to report workers’ wages. Obtained successful dismissal in trial court; matter currently on appeal. New York State Association for Affordable Housing et al. v. City Council.
Toward Increased Notice of FMLA [Family and Medical Leave Act] and ADA [Americans with Disability Act] Protections, 80 NYU L. REV. 1797 (2005).

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