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THOMPSON WIGDOR & GILLY LLPScott Browning Gilly is a founding partner of Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP. He has broad experience representing companies, as well as individual executives and other employees, on a full range of labor and employment law matters. Mr. Gilly has appeared extensively in federal and state courts in single-plaintiff, multi-plaintiff and class action discrimination suits and related employment litigation involving Title VII, Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Equal Pay Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Section 1981, trade secrets, restrictive covenants and employment contracts. He is highly experienced in dealing with the intricacies of these laws and the agencies that administer them. He handles securities industry arbitration before the NASD and NYSE, as well as administrative proceedings, mediations and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures before the EEOC and other federal and state government agencies. In addition to employment litigation, Mr. Gilly has extensive experience advising employers and individual employees on the design, implementation and application of corporate personnel policies, employee handbooks, diversity programs, harassment prevention programs, and reductions-in-force, as well as the employment issues arising out of mergers, acquisitions and corporate reorganizations, employee terminations and Family and Medical Leave Act and disability-related leaves of absence. Mr. Gilly has conducted on-site investigations and client training seminars to address sensitive human resources and employee relations issues. He also regularly negotiates employment agreements, executive compensation agreements, limited liability partnership and company agreements, nonsolicitation and nondisclosure agreements and covenants not to compete designed to protect trade secrets, intellectual property and other proprietary information. Mr. Gilly has substantial collective bargaining, strike preparation, labor arbitration and union organizing experience in an wide array of industries, including professional sports, commercial airlines, telecommunications, retail, overnight air freight, transporation and major construction. He has participated in the negotiation and administration of collective bargaining agreements and handled federal and state court labor injunction actions and litigation before the National Labor Relations Board. Mr. Gilly also heads the firm’s Sports and Entertainment Law Practice. He has maintained an active, life-long involvement in competitive sports, including a four-year intercollegiate basketball career at Harvard University. While at Harvard, Mr. Gilly was Captain of the Harvard University Basketball Team and served as an advisory committee member within the Harvard Department of Athletics and the Ivy League, which addressed compelling issues affecting NCAA student-athletes. As a practicing lawyer, Mr. Gilly has substantial experience in salary arbitration involving many of the highest profile clubs and players in Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League. He has also participated in counseling the owners of professional baseball and professional soccer franchises on the labor and antitrust issues concerning their collective bargaining relationship with players unions and their individual player and club salary contracting practices. See Press and Other Notables. In addition to his legal experience representing professional sports franchises, Mr. Gilly has represented other clients involved in the business of sports, as well as individual actors, performers, models, writers, producers, directors and executives in the motion picture, television and radio and other entertainment industries. Prior to founding Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP, Mr. Gilly practiced law in both the New York and Washington, D.C. offices of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, one of the largest and most prominent management-side labor and employment law firms in the country. Establishing Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP has enabled him to fulfill his vision of bringing the full breadth and depth of expertise he developed representing many of the largest and best-known companies in the world to a much broader base of clients that includes individual executives and other employees in addition to emerging and established businesses of different sizes and in different industries. Mr. Gilly is a graduate of Harvard University, where he earned his A.B. degree in psychology with a concentration on social and organizational behavior. He earned his J.D. degree from Catholic University School of Law in Washington, D.C., graduating in the top of his class. While in law school, Mr. Gilly was a published author and the Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic University Law Review. Mr. Gilly frequently speaks and writes about labor and employment law issues as well as issues affecting the professional sports and entertainment industries. He is admitted to practice before the federal and state courts of New York, the District of Columbia, Virginia and Pennsylvania, including the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Fourth Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of Connecticut, the District of Columbia, the Eastern District of Virginia and the District of Maryland. Mr. Gilly is an active member of the Labor and Employment Law and Sports and Entertainment Law Sections of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Mr. Gilly is also a member of the Human Resources Committee at the Harvard Club of New York City, where he advises the Club President and Executive Board on numerous employment-related matters. |
Scott Browning Gilly, sgilly@twglawyers.com |
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