Phil defends employers in a variety of labor and employment matters, including national wage and hour class and collective actions and senior-level executive terminations. He handles complex litigation in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies, such as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).

Phil also regularly drafts and negotiates a range of employment agreements, including separation agreements, independent contractor agreements, confidentiality agreements, invention and assignment agreements and restrictive covenants. In addition, he represents clients in union avoidance, unfair labor practice charges and in representation hearings.

Phil also provides counseling and strategic advice on wide-ranging employment issues involving restrictive covenants, wage-hour practices, traditional labor law matters, Title VII, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the New York City Human Rights Law, the New York State Human Rights Law and New York labor laws.