Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Alan M. Pollack is a partner in the Firm's Litigation Department.  His practice focuses on a broad range of federal and state commercial and civil litigations, including business disputes, partnership dissolutions, class and shareholder derivative actions, and labor and employment matters.  Mr. Pollack has represented clients in a wide variety of industries, including construction, manufacturing, health care, securities, and franchises.

Mr. Pollack has extensive experience in prosecuting and defending class actions, particularly in labor and employment matters arising under Section 220 of the New York Labor Law, the Davis-Bacon Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and state consumer fraud statutes.  He has been appointed class counsel in over twenty class actions to recover unpaid wages and supplemental benefits that are owed to workers on publicly financed projects.  He has also served as class counsel in security fraud cases, insider-trading matters, and franchise litigation against an automobile manufacturer.

In addition, he has provided counseling and defended companies who are the subject of labor and enforcement actions by federal, state and city governmental agencies.  Mr. Pollack has argued several landmark appeals, including Building Trades Employers' Educational Association, et al. v. James J. McGowan, Commissioner of Labor of the State of New York and The New York State Department of Labor, Docket No. 01-7775, 311 F.3d 501 (2nd Cir. 2002) (federal principles of preemption applied to the Department of Labor's refusal to process an application for an apprenticeship program); In the Matter of Action Electric Contractors Co., Inc. v. Harrison J. Goldin, as Comptroller of the City of New York, et al., 64 N.Y.2d 213 (1984) (supplemental benefit payments under Section 220 of the Labor Law may be paid in cash and/or by remittance to benefits funds as long as the aggregate amount that is paid equals the hourly prevailing rate); Monarch Electrical Contracting Corp. v. Lillian Roberts, as Commissioner of Labor of the State of New York, 70 N.Y.2d 91 (1987); (trainees are not recognized as a classification under Section 220 of the New York Labor Law).

Mr. Pollack graduated cum laude from Fairleigh Dickinson University with a B.S. in 1974 and received his J.D. from Syracuse University in 1976.  Mr. Pollack was an Associate Editor of The Syracuse University Law Review from 1973-1974.

Mr. Pollack is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.  He is a member of the American Bar Association and Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Areas of Practice

• Commercial Litigation
• Civil Litigation

Representative Cases

• Building Trades Employers' Educational Association, et al. v. James J. McGowan, Commissioner of Labor of the State of New York and The New York State Department of Labor, Docket No. 01-7775, 311 F.3d 501 (2nd Cir. 2002)
• In the Matter of Action Electric Contractors Co., Inc. v. Harrison J. Goldin, as Comptroller of the City of New York, et al., 64 N.Y.2d 213 (1984)
• Monarch Electrical Contracting Corp. v. Lillian Roberts, as Commissioner of Labor of the State of New York, 70 N.Y.2d 91 (1987)

West Practice Categories

Litigation & Appeals

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1974
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association (Member)
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member)

Education

• Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, New York, 1976
  J.D.
  
  Law Review: The Syracuse University Law Review, Associate Editor, 1973 - 1974
• Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1974
  B.S.
  Honors: cum laude

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