Liz Vladeck, Associate
1350 Broadway, Suite 1400
New York, NY 10018
212.871.0537 | direct fax: 646.599.9577
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"The fight for strong unions and workers rights isn’t just critical for basic workplace justice – it is also a key ingredient for an open society and a vibrant democracy. To be effective, a labor lawyer has to be not only skilled and hard-working, but has to bring grit and passion to organizing workers and representing a union."
Education:
- Columbia Law School, J.D., 2006
- Harvard College, B.A., 1999
Bar Admission:
- 2007 New York
Court Admissions:
- 2010 U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- 2010 U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Bar Affiliations:
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- Russian Association of Labor Lawyers
Biography:
Liz Vladeck is an associate at Cary Kane, where she represents unions and individual employees. Ms. Vladeck has worked in the labor movement for over ten years, both in the United States and in Russia.
Prior to joining Cary Kane, she was an attorney at the Change to Win Strategic Organizing Center and Associate General Counsel for Workers United, SEIU, representing both the international union and the union’s local affiliates. Her practice has included NLRB and federal court litigation, as well as work with other federal agencies, arbitration on behalf of union members, and collective bargaining. Ms. Vladeck worked in Russia for several years, acting as campaign director on a number of organizing initiatives. She also engaged in legal advocacy on behalf of Russian unions and workers, including assisting on the first successful trade union case from Russia at the European Court of Human Rights.
Ms. Vladeck is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and of the Russian Association of Labor Lawyers, the first and only such post-Soviet group. She is licensed to practice law in the State of New York and is admitted to the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. She is fluent in Russian and speaks basic Spanish.
Ms. Vladeck is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and a Leebron Fellow, and of Harvard College, where she earned her degree magna cum laude in the Comparative Study of Religion and minored in Russian Studies.
Ms. Vladeck is married; she moved back to New York from Russia with her husband and stepson in 2008.
