Aryeh Zuber is an associate in the firm’s Employment Litigation practice group. Aryeh has experience representing clients in a variety of employment matters, including wage and hour suits, gender discrimination claims, and non-compete and restrictive covenant agreements. He also has experience performing employment advisory work and drafting executive agreements, and has handled a number of transactional matters for private equity clients, including Thomas H. Lee Partners, Providence Equity Partners, Irving Place Capital, and Brookfield Asset Management. Mr. Zuber has been involved in representing clients in single plaintiff and class action litigations before multiple forums, including federal and state courts.
Mr. Zuber has served as outside counsel to clients in a wide range of industries, including financial services, electronics manufacturing, health care, and automobile manufacturing. Aryeh’s representative matters have involved issues including employment law, complex commercial law, securities law, white-collar criminal defense law, bankruptcy law and antitrust law. He has regularly represented clients before various regulatory bodies, including FINRA, the Federal Reserve and the SEC. Most recently, he assisted representing the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Restoration Hardware in an independent investigation into whistleblower allegations of an improper personal relationship between the former CEO and an employee and other allegations of impropriety involving the company's co-CEO and Chairman. Aryeh is representing O’Brien’s Response Management Inc. in collective action lawsuits involving alleged violations of the wage and hour provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act related to individuals who provided service on the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) spill response. Mr. Zuber is also part of the team representing Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. in simultaneous massive, nationwide restrictive covenant and trade secrets litigations in New York and California.
Aryeh has also served as pro-bono employment counsel for several philanthropic and not-for profit organizations. Notably, he acted as pro-bono co-counsel in the precedent-setting matter Layzer v. Leavitt (S.D.N.Y. 2007), which found unconstitutional certain regulations denying off-label coverage to Medicare beneficiaries suffering from orphan diseases. Aryeh serves as the Vice Chairman of the Young Lawyers Division of the UJA Federation of New York, is a member of the Young Leadership Committee of the Metropolitan Counsel for Jewish Poverty, and sits on the New York City Bar Association Labor & Employment Committee. He has been published and speaks on various issues pertaining to employment law.
Aryeh received his Bachelors in Talmudic Law from Yeshiva Shaar Hatora in 2003. He received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2006, where he was associate and comment editor on the University of Pennsylvania Labor and Employment Journal. Aryeh is admitted to the bar of the state of New York, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.