Lenard Leeds, of Leeds Morelli & Brown is representing a former employee of a spa owned by "Real Housewives of New York City" prima donna Cindy Barshop. Altovise Collier, who said she was the only black beautician at the store, claims Barshop underpaid her, forking over only about half of her $700 weekly salary.
A federal judge has now issued an order compelling the Kings Park School District to appear in court to explain why they suspended a 17-year-old student from extracurricular activities after she admitted to passing a container of alcohol at a school event.
Jeffrey K. Brown of Leeds Morelli & Brown, P.C., attorney for the student, Nina Ottaviano, argued in an emergency motion to U.S. District Court Judge Arthur D. Spatt that failing to reverse her suspension from activities during her senior year would do irreparable damage to her future.
A tenured gym teacher has sued administrators of a New York City public school in a bid to save his career, which he claims has been jeopardized by administrators who disciplined him in retaliation for blowing the whistle on unsafe conditions at a building used as a school annex.
The teacher, Brian Ross, claims in a $15 million federal court lawsuit filed on Oct. 26 that administrators of highly regarded P.S. 132, the Conselyea School, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, disciplined him on fabricated charges for reporting the unsafe conditions to OSHA. OSHA subsequently shut the facility.
Verdict Search has recognized Leeds Morelli & Brown for attaining the highest verdict for an employment law case in the state of New York in 2009. In February of last year a jury in the Queens Supreme court awarded a nurse $15,000,000 for years of sexual harassment. The case (Bianco v. Flushing Hospital Medical Center) resulted in a record-setting verdict for a sexual harassment case in New York.
Watch the video on FoxNews.com of Lenard Leeds of Leeds Morelli & Brown discussing the details of Michael Jackson’s estate.
