Robert B. Stulberg, Esq., is a founding partner of Stulberg & Walsh, LLP (formerly Broach & Stulberg, LLP) in New York City, where he represents individual employees, classes of employees, labor unions, employee benefit funds, and disability rights organizations in the private and public sectors.
In his employment practice, Mr. Stulberg counsels executives, professionals, academics, civil servants, hourly employees, whistleblowers and others employed in the U.S. and abroad in all aspects of workplace law, including negotiation and drafting of employment, retention, separation, severance, secondment and consulting agreements, and litigation of discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, breach of contract, wage and hour, and whistleblowing claims. In his labor practice, Mr. Stulberg represents labor unions in collective bargaining negotiations, contract arbitrations, mediations, public procurement matters, prevailing wage and benefit disputes, project labor agreements, and judicial and administrative litigation. In his disability rights practice, Mr. Stulberg has successfully litigated class actions requiring accessible pedestrian curb ramps, commuter rail stations, municipal buses, and emergency street alarm boxes throughout New York City and environs. He also has successfully represented clients seeking reasonable accommodations of disabilities or coverage under long-term disability insurance policies.
A member of the Bar of the State of New York and the District of Columbia, Mr. Stulberg is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fifth and District of Columbia Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and for the District of the District of Columbia.
Mr. Stulberg has served as Co-Chair of the Committee on International Labor and Employment Law of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section (ABA‐LEL), as Co-Chair of the Sub-Committee on International Law of the ABA-LEL Employee Rights and Responsibilities Committee, as Chair of the Committee on Labor and Employment Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, as Chair of ABCNY’s Sub-Committees on Workfare and OSHA, as Co-Chair of its Liaison Sub-Committee to the Pro Se Committee of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and as a member of its Committees on Disabilities Law and Federal Legislation. Mr. Stulberg currently serves as Co-Editor of Labor and Employment Law, the ABA-LEL’s quarterly national newsletter. He also is an active member of the AFL-CIO United Lawyers Association and a regular contributor to the North American Building Trade Unions’ Organizing Campaign Guide and Annual Meeting.
A prolific author, teacher and lecturer, Mr. Stulberg has written and presented more than 60 publications, presentations and webinars on labor, employment and civil rights topics. For more than 30 years he has been rated AV (Highest Rating in Legal Ability & Ethical Standards) by Martindale-Hubbell, and is regularly listed in the Law Dragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment and Civil Rights Lawyers Guide, the Expert Guide to World’s Leading Labour and Employment Lawyers, New York Top Rated Lawyers, and New York Super Lawyers.
Mr. Stulberg holds a J.D. degree from the Antioch School of Law (1978) and a B.A. degree from Columbia College of Columbia University (1974).
Before attending law school, he was a print and broadcast investigative journalist, and is the Emmy Award-winning producer and co-writer of “A Day Without Sunshine,” a 90-minute documentary about Florida farmworkers and agribusiness, narrated by James Earl Jones and broadcast nationally as “PBS Special of the Week” (1976).
A violoncellist, Mr. Stulberg performs as principal/assistant principal with the Riverside Orchestra in New York City and previously served as principal in the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Lawyers’ Orchestra.
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