Company Profile
Wigdor LLP
Company Overview
Wigdor LLP is widely considered one of the leading plaintiffs’ employment litigation firms in the United States. Founded in 2003, Wigdor LLP specializes in litigating complex cases, representing individual executives as well as current and former employees in a variety of employment law matters.
The Firm’s Founding Partner, Douglas H. Wigdor, is widely regarded as one of New York’s most successful employment attorneys. Named a winner of the New York Law Journal’s Distinguished Leader Award in 2020, Mr. Wigdor is well known for representing victims in some of the most closely watched sexual harassment, sexual assault and employment discrimination cases of the last decade. A tireless advocate for victims of employer misconduct, Mr. Wigdor is also a Forbes Diversity & Inclusion Contributor and can often be seen standing up for his clients’ rights in television and radio interviews; he has even testified before the UK Parliament in connection with his high-profile cases. He has been profiled by The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek and the London Independent, was named a Top 100 Hollywood Power Lawyer by The Hollywood Reporter and has landed on Billboard’s 2020 Top Music Lawyers list.
The attorneys at Wigdor LLP are highly experienced in the successful litigation of class action, multi-plaintiff and individual plaintiff employment and civil rights lawsuits. The Firm is routinely recognized for extraordinary achievement in the categories of employee discrimination, wrongful termination, civil rights, whistleblower retaliation and wage-and-hour law. Notably, Wigdor LLP is one of just four law firms to be ranked by Chambers and Partners in the category of Labor and Employment: Mainly Plaintiffs Representation in New York.
Company History
For over 17 years, Wigdor LLP has paved the road to justice on behalf of victims of corporate misconduct at the highest levels. The Firm is known for representing victims in some of the most high-profile and contentious employment discrimination, sexual harassment and #MeToo cases in recent history. These include seven victims of alleged sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, the hotel maid in the infamous sexual assault case against French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, over 20 victims of alleged discrimination and/or sexual harassment at Fox News, former Recording Academy President and CEO Deborah Dugan in a sexual harassment, gender discrimination and retaliation case in connection with the Grammy Awards, numerous victims of sexual assault by Uber drivers, and many others.
Wigdor LLP is particularly well known for battling unequal pay and other forms of discrimination on Wall Street, having represented plaintiffs in employment cases against virtually every large financial institution. In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, the Firm's Founding Partner, Douglas H. Wigdor coined the term “recessionary discrimination” to describe the trend of banks and other institutions using poor economy as pretext to disproportionately lay off certain groups of vulnerable workers, such as pregnant women, working parents, employees with disabilities and workers over 60. The Firm has seen this trend re-emerge amid the economic crisis brought on by COVID-19 and continues to aggressively advocate for victims of recessionary discrimination during the pandemic. Wigdor LLP has also led the charge in challenging the use of forced arbitration in employment disputes, a practice which denies employees meaningful access to justice via the court system.
When they aren't trying cases, the Firm’s attorneys are frequently seen zealously advocating for their clients or being quoted as legal experts in leading local, national and international news media. Due to the Firm’s well-respected stature within the legal community, the attorneys at Wigdor LLP possess a rare negotiating power that is unseen by most boutique plaintiffs’ firms. As a result, the Firm is able to settle the vast majority of its cases confidentially before a complaint is ever filed. These settlements total over $1 billion.