Eugene G. Eisner - gene@eisnerassociates.com

Gene is the President of Eisner & Associates, P.C. He was appointed in 1995 by the Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board to a special Labor-Management Advisory Committee, composed of the nation's leading labor lawyers, which meets periodically in Washington, D.C. Two years ago he was appointed to the advisory board for the Center on Labor and Employment Law at New York University School of Law. He has received Martindale-Hubbell's highest attorney rating (AV) and is listed in the book "Best Lawyers in America".

Gene is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and New York University Law School.

Gene has done extensive teaching, speaking and writing in the field of labor law. He has taught labor law and arbitration practice to workers pursuing undergraduate degrees at the Hofstra University/District 65 Institute as well as collective bargaining courses at the Cornell University ILR Extension Division in New York City. Gene has published articles on the right to strike, plant closings and affirmative action in various law journals and books. He has been a guest speaker and panelist in forums and conferences sponsored by the American Arbitration Association, the National Labor Relations Board, the Industrial Relations Research Association and the NYU Annual Conference on Labor. In addition, he has served several times as a Moot Court Judge for the Robert F. Wagner National Labor Law Competition. During the past several years Gene helped organize, and participated in, seminars in Moscow and the United States focusing on the impact on workers of the transition to a market economy in the former Soviet countries.

Gene is a long-standing member of the National Lawyers Guild where he has conducted workshops and training sessions for rank and file workers, young lawyers and law students. Gene has done considerable pro bono legal work for civil liberties organizations and individuals, including successfully prosecuting the landmark case of Wolin vs. Port Authority in the U.S. Court of Appeals, which established the right of anti-Vietnam protesters to leaflet inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal during the 1960's.

In the field of housing, Gene has served as counsel to many tenant organizations, including the Park West Village Tenants Association. He, along with other volunteer lawyers, successfully defended the right of elderly tenants to remain in occupancy at the Lincoln Square Home for the Elderly.

Gene has participated in a number of struggles on behalf of disadvantaged people, including: aiding the mentally disabled at Willowbrook (before Geraldo Rivera), allying with the residents of Culebra, Puerto Rico in their fight against the U.S. Navy's attempt to use the island as a bombing practice area and assisting prisoners in Attica and Green Haven in the protection of their constitutional rights.

His firm represented ACORN, a nationwide community organization, in its attempt to achieve recognition for thousands of workfare recipients who are employed in the City of New York.


Nathaniel K. Charny - nathaniel@eisnerassociates.com

Nathaniel is a member of the New York and New Jersey state bars, and is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey.

Nathaniel graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law (1991), where he was Note & Comment Editor on the Law Review. He served as law clerk to the Honorable Alan N. Bloch, United States District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, before beginning legal practice in the area of labor and employment law in 1993.

Nathaniel obtained his B.A. (magna cum laude) from the State University of New York at Albany in 1987.

Nathaniel is an adjunct professor at Queens College, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes, most recently on Law and Social Justice.

Eric Brettschneider, of Counsel

Education: Colgate University (B.A., 1968); New School for Social Research (M.A., 1971); Hofstra University (J.D., 1979)
Executive Director, Queensboro Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1973-1979. Associate Commissioner, Program Planning, New York State Department of Social Services, 1979-1981. Executive Assistant to the Queens County Borough President, 1982-1985. Deputy Commissioner, Special Services for Children (NYC HRA), 1985-1987. Acting Executive Deputy Commissioner, Family and Children's Services Agency, New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA), 1987-1988. Executive Director, Agenda for Children Tomorrow, 1988-1999.
Adjunct Faculty at NYU Metropolitan Studies, Hunter School of Social Work, Fordham School of Social Work.
Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State Bar Association.