Top Attorney – William K. Phillips

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New York, NY/Press/March 5, 2018 – William K. Phillips, Managing Partner and Attorney with Phillips & Associates was selected for inclusion in the forthcoming Top Attorneys of North America 2018-2019 edition of The Who’s Who Directories.

The accomplishments attained by Mr. William K. Phillips in the field of Legal Services, warrants inclusion into The Top Attorneys of North America. 

“Recognized as a stellar employment lawyer by his peers.”

Employees are at a big disadvantage in the workplace.  Discrimination and sexual harassment can cause extreme stress, detrimentally affecting your job performance, and create a hostile, intimidating work environment. The law firm of Phillips & Associates levels the playing field for employees. When you hire Phillips & Associates you hire a legal team of high powered employment lawyers to fight for your rights. They stand up to the large law firms hired by employers.

The firm is at the forefront of defending employee rights in New York City and the Tri-State region area, focusing on discrimination claims relating to Sexual Harassment, Pregnancy, Sex or Gender, Age, Race, Disability, Sexual Orientation, National Origin, Religion, Criminal Conviction, Wage and Hour and Overtime Claims, Wrongful Termination as well as EEOC Representation.  Their New York employment law firm has secured over $85 million dollars in settlements and verdicts for victims of sexual harassment and discrimination.Very few employment law firms in New York have the knowledge, resources and financial backing that Phillips & Associates has gained representing thousands of employees.

William K. Phillips, admitted to the New York Bar in 1996, the federal courts for the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District of New York, the Western District of New York, as well as, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. His law firm Phillips & Associates is one of the largest employment law firms in New York devoted to representing employees who have been sexually harassed or discriminated. Mr. Phillips is very pleased of the firm’s accomplishments representing victims of discrimination and sexual harassment. In a race discrimination case, a federal jury in New York City found that use of the N-word in the workplace is never acceptable, even when used between black coworkers. Most recently, the firm was successful in achieving a ruling that victims of sexual harassment in places of public accommodation are covered under the New York City Human Rights Law.

Before focusing on employment law, Mr. Phillips gained experience in business and other areas, giving him a valuable frame of reference from which to analyze the industries in which his clients and their employers work. He served as the Principal of Real Estate Development at TPG Design. Before his work in real estate development, Mr. Phillips served as Vice President of the Fieldstone Private Capital Group, a boutique investment bank in New York.  There he was responsible for originating and executing all investment banking mandates, managing a portfolio of aircraft assets, negotiating with airlines regarding early terminations, defaults, and working with assets subject to bankruptcies, litigation, and repossession.  Prior to this experience, Mr. Phillips served as the business development director for a bar exam review company in New York, and also as a professional model in Europe and the U.S.

Mr. Phillips attended the College of Staten Island, graduating magna cum laude with a B.A. in sociology and anthropology.  He studied entertainment law and landlord-tenant law at New York Law School and graduated from St. Thomas School of Law in Miami in 1993.  He is a member of the American Bar Association, the National Employment Lawyers Association (“NELA”), and the American Society of Legal Advocates.  He is also active in his local legal community, with memberships in the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, New York County Lawyers Association, Brooklyn Bar Association, and the New York Chapter of NELA.

Mr. Phillips was selected as a 2017 and 2018 “Top 100 Labor & Employment Lawyer in New York” by the American Society of Legal Advocates, one of the “10 Best Labor and Employment Attorneys in New York” by the American Institute of Legal Counsel and was recently selected as a member “Lawyers of Distinction” in Employment and Labor Law. He is also a member of the “Million Dollar Advocates Forum”. The Million Dollar Advocates Forum is one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the United States. Membership is limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements, he also serves in an “Of Counsel” capacity to other law firms, providing litigation supervision in connection with their employment law cases. He works hard to obtain the best possible results for his clients, and has had great success in securing millions of dollars in damages and settlement awards.

The Top Attorneys of North America, a New York based publication, distinguishes and profiles leading attorneys who have reached a recognizable degree of success and leadership in their field. The directory is valued for promoting awareness of the accomplishments within the North American legal community.