Richard M. Schall

Throughout his more-than-30-year career as an employment lawyer in the State of New Jersey, Richard Schall, who is “of counsel” to the firm, has represented individuals in virtually every facet of employment law, including claims involving race, sex, age, and disability discrimination, reasonable accommodation, sexual harassment, the Family Medical Leave Act, wrongful termination, breach of contract, retaliation and non-compete agreements.

In every year since 2005, he has been named by his peers to the list of “Super Lawyers” in New Jersey in the field of employment litigation-plaintiff and has also been honored, every year since 2009, as among the “Best Lawyers in America” in the field of labor and employment law in New Jersey.

As a highly trained trial lawyer, and willing to take on the largest corporations in the State of New Jersey, Mr. Schall has tried numerous cases to successful verdicts on behalf of his clients. He has also regularly appeared before the New Jersey Supreme Court in a number of critical cases involving issues of employment law. Along with partner Patricia Barasch, Mr. Schall tried and won the case of Seiden v. Marina Associates, the very first case in the State of New Jersey to clearly address the proper legal framework for analyzing reasonable accommodation/disability discrimination cases. He also represented the plaintiff in the case of Maw v. Advanced Clinical Communications, Inc. (ultimately decided by the Supreme Court), which challenged an employer’s right to fire an employee simply because she refused to sign an overbroad non-compete agreement.

During the course of his career, Mr. Schall has handled dozens of cases representing employees tied down by non-compete agreements, and in the vast majority of those cases has succeeded in getting his clients freed from the oppressive terms of those agreements and able to move on to their new jobs.