James Linsey has been representing clients in workplace disputes throughout the United States for 35 years. He focuses a critical eye on the key issues and helps clients identify and achieve remarkable results. Early on, Mr. Linsey won injunctions to stop the temporary shutdown of a major airline in the State of Alaska and, in a later key case, to stop Mayor Giuliani's plan for massive outsourcing
that would have destroyed nearly 1,000 jobs for police officers at public hospitals throughout New York City. On the flip side, he defeated motions to enjoin pilots from striking at Eastern Airlines (as their airline was being torn apart for the benefit of outsiders) and successfully defended unions’ traditional definition of the word “scab” as a person who crosses picket lines. Subsequently, Mr. Linsey was lead counsel at proceedings at the U.S. Department of Transportation that resulted in a government order denying a “fitness certificate” to a proposed new airline connected with Frank Lorenzo—the former head at Eastern. Linsey won a landmark decision in the New Jersey Supreme Court recognizing for the first time in that state’s history the right of workers to collect pre-judgment damages. Over $17 million was distributed to a few hundred Pepsi delivery drivers in that case. But perhaps Mr. Linsey’s most rewarding work is done outside courtrooms and, instead, in meeting rooms to achieve settlements in intractable disputes. In 2007, Mr. Linsey spent months in Appalachia where he successfully engineered a settlement for striking nurses manning picket lines in the cold winter mountains. This past Christmas, Mr. Linsey achieved a settlement of $225,000 for exploited grocery workers who worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, without overtime or medical coverage. The workers in that case also won union representation and a labor contract to protect their rights. Linsey is fluent in Spanish and French, and knows basic conversational Mandarin, and works easily with clients’ of different cultures and experiences. He serves on the Vestry of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in the Bowery and believes in the importance of public service work.
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