Head of Restrictive Covenant Practice Group
kgrossman@nfclegal.com
O: 973.665.9100
D: 973.507.7626
F: 973.665.9101
Kirsten McCaw Grossman leads our Restrictive Covenant practice group and is an employment litigator with 20 years of experience. Ms. Grossman represents management clients exclusively in disputes before state and federal courts, FINRA (formerly NASD) and AAA arbitration proceedings, and administrative agencies (including state and federal EEO agencies and the Department of Labor). Additionally, Ms. Grossman regularly counsels clients on various employment law and benefits issues, including employee discipline and termination, harassment, family and medical leave issues, disability accommodation requests, reductions in force, protection of confidential information, wage and hour compliance, restrictive covenant enforcement, and unfair competition. Ms. Grossman prepares and reviews employment policies and procedures, negotiates and drafts employment contracts, confidentiality, restrictive covenants and separation agreements, conducts internal investigations of workplace issues and training for corporate employees and management.
In addition to her employment experience, Ms. Grossman also has substantial complex commercial litigation and trial experience in both state and federal courts in New York and New Jersey. Ms. Grossman’s commercial cases include intellectual property/copyright, contract, insurance defense, banking and securities practices and toxic tort.
Listed in Super Lawyers®, Employment & Labor 2012 – 2020
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Honorable Kenith D. Bloom New Jersey Superior Court, Essex County |
1997 - 1998 |
Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C., Short Hills, NJ Counsel |
2008 – Present |
Bressler, Amery & Ross, Florham Park, NJ Associate |
2000 - 2008 |
Hardin, Kundla, McKeon, Poletto & Polifroni, Springfield, NJ Associate |
1998 - 2000 |
New Jersey State Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section | |
Sidney Reitman Labor & Employment Law Inn of Court |
Seton Hall University School of Law J.D. |
1997 |
Wright State University B.A. Political Science, magna cum laude |
1994 |
State of New Jersey | 1998 |
State of New York | 2000 |
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey | 2000 |
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York | 2002 |
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York | 2002 |
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit | 2008 |
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit | 2011 |
Dean Witter Reynolds v. Kevin Blackburn, 2002 WL 31233219 (N.A.S.D. Aug. 29, 2002)
RBC Dain Rauscher v. Nowacki and Pryka, 2004 WL 1908044 (N.A.S.D. August 11, 2004)
Tucker Anthony v. Angelo Roman, 2005 WL 773905 (N.A.S.D. March 10, 2005)
Katchen v. Smith Barney, 2005 WL 1863669 (D.N.J. Aug. 3, 2005)
Mannion v. Coors Brewing Co., 2007 WL 3340925 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 7, 2007)
Raia v. Illinois Tool Works, Inc., 2007 WL 4565139 (E.D.N.Y. Dec. 21, 2007)
Mannion v. Coors Brewing Co., 530 F. Supp.2d 543 (S.D.N.Y. 2008)
Farzan v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 2011 WL 3510860 (D.N.J. Aug. 8, 2011)
Gilbert L. West v. Prudential Insurance Company of America, 462 Fed. Appx. 170 (3rd Cir. November 18, 2011)
American Leisure Facilities Mgt. Corp. v. Brutus, 2012 WL 6162232 (N.Y.C. Dec. 7, 2012)
Martin v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America, 2013 WL 3354431 (D.N.J. July 2, 2013)
American Leisure Facilities Mgt. Corp. v. Brutus, 2014 WL 4829640 (N.Y.C., Sept. 30th, 2014)
Vesuvio v. Karlik, 2015 WL 2458030 (App. Div., May 28, 2015)
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