Schwartz Perry & Heller is a New York law firm whose practice is dedicated to all forms of employment discrimination, including age discrimination, race discrimination, sexual discrimination, hostile work environment, and sexual harassment. Schwartz Perry & Heller has been involved in a number of first impression cases which have had a lasting influence on employment law in New York, including the landmark sexual harassment cases of Thoreson v. Penthouse Magazine and Robert Guccione, Bracker v. Cohen and McIntyre v. Manhattan Ford, Lincoln Mercury. The firm has obtained a number of verdicts and settlements for more than a million dollars. In June 2006, following a two-week trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, a jury returned a verdict in the amount of $2.5 million, of which $300,000 was an award for punitive damages. The firm's attorneys lecture and write articles for numerous bar associations in the New York City area, including the New York County Lawyers' Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York State Bar Association, the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), as well as its New York affiliate, and several licensed Continuing Legal Education (CLE) providers. Schwartz Perry & Heller is considered one of New York City's premier law firms specializing in employment law based upon the significant achievements it has and continues to earn.
