William J. Sipser, Esq.
Founding Partner
Office: 212.766.9100
Fax: 212.766.4474
120 Broadway, 18th Floor
New York, New York 10271
United States
As one of the founding partners of
Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser,
LLP, Mr. Sipser has been a leading
practitioner in the area of Labor Law
and Employment Law Discrimination for
almost twenty years. His practice
includes extensive litigation experience in
state and federal courts, and before
several governmental agencies involving
representation of individuals and labor unions. Mr. Sipser has prosecuted
significant cases, including appeals before the Appellate Division of the State of
New York as well as the federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He
argued a critical employment discrimination issue before the New York State
Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, in September 2004. Mr. Sipser
recently briefed, argued and won an important civil service case before the New
York State Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan.
Mr. Sipser has tried hundreds of administrative cases and arbitrations
concerning employment issues, including grievances and discharge cases.
Recognized for his success in participating in employment discrimination
alternative dispute resolution, Mr. Sipser was recently one of the featured
speakers and participants in a forum on mediation of employment disputes in a
continuing legal education seminar held at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
Law.
Mr. Sipser served as an Assistant Commissioner for Labor Relations in the New
York City Department of Correction, where he was responsible for ensuring
stable labor relations in this major city agency, with its approximately 13,000
uniformed and civilian employees. He also served as an Associate in the law firm
of Sipser, Weinstock, Harper & Dorn, LLP, and worked extensively and closely
with his late father, I. Philip Sipser, who was one of the foremost labor attorneys
Mr. Sipser graduated from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where he was
an Associate Editor of the Association of Student International Law Societies’
International Law Journal.
Mr. Sipser is admitted to the New York State Bar, the Washington D.C. Bar, the
New Jersey State Bar, the United States District Courts in the Southern and
Eastern Districts of New York as well as the District of New Jersey and the
Second Circuit United States Court of Appeals.
