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Joni Haviva Kletter joined Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C. on February 1, 2007 as an Associate of the Labor and Employment Law practice in the firm's New York City office. Ms. Kletter helps litigate numerous employment related claims and provides employment advice to employees, executives, professionals and both large and small companies. She has experience in cases involving discrimination, harassment, separation agreements, employment contracts, restrictive covenants and employee benefits. Ms. Kletter also advises employers on best practices and compliance issues, and provides anti-discrimination trainings.

 

Working closely with clients, Ms. Kletter also represents unions and individual members in all aspects of federal and state litigation, arbitrations and administrative hearings.

 

Before joining the firm, Ms. Kletter was a federal law clerk to U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein and prior to that, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy in the Eastern District of New York. During law school, Ms. Kletter worked as a legal intern at the New York State Attorney General’s Office, Civil Rights Bureau, where she worked on housing and employment discrimination under both federal and state law. 

 

She was also a law clerk for Levy Ratner, P.C., where she wrote memoranda, facilitated arbitration hearings and collaboratively wrote briefs on a wide range of labor law issues, including fair representation, collective bargaining and unfair labor practices. Ms.  Kletter was also  a summer associate at the labor and employment firm, Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelard, P.C., where she researched and wrote memoranda on Title VII, ERISA, and labor law and contract issues.

 

Ms. Kletter graduated from Yale University in 2000 and received her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, cum laude, in 2004. She was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society in law school.  Upon graduation from law school, Ms. Kletter received the Jacob Burns Medal for Scholastic Achievement and the National Association of Women Lawyers Award for Outstanding Graduate.

 

Ms. Kletter is an active member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), and serves on NELA NY's Gender Discrimination Committee.  She recently gave a CLE on the Equal Pay Act to NELA attorneys.  She is also a member of the Labor and Employment Law Section's ADR Committee, New York State Bar Association.  Ms. Kletter was recently honored by Touro Law Center's Public Interest Law Fellowship Program for her commitment to providing pro bono legal counsel.  In 2004, The New York State Bar awarded Ms. Kletter First Prize:  Samuel M. Kaynard Memorial Award in Labor and Employment Law.  Ms. Kletter is also affiliated with the Park Slope Civic Council and Ivy-Life NYC.

 

Ms. Kletter is admitted to practice law in New York State and before the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

 

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