Firm Overview

Zuckerman & Fisher is a small but recognized law firm located in Princeton, New Jersey along three peaceful bodies of water: Carnegie Lake, the Millstone River and the Delaware-Raritan Canal. In this tranquil setting, attorney and client may meet and work without interruption to solve troublesome workplace situations.

Zuckerman & Fisher was formed in 1997 by Elizabeth Zuckerman and George Fisher because they saw the need throughout New Jersey for a law firm with the willingness and confidence to represent the interests of employees on work-place issues of vital importance to them. As a result, the firm focuses exclusively on protecting employees' jobs and, when that is not possible, obtaining fair compensation for those who have suffered through wrongful terminations.

Today, Zuckerman & Fisher provides services to all types and levels of employees: senior executive and management officers, blue-collar workers, women held back by glass ceilings and male egos, office staff, salespersons, executive assistants, professionals and government officials (civil service and exempt).

Its services include all aspects of the employment and post-employment spectrum: negotiation and review of employment agreements; denials of promotion; disciplinary actions; hostile conditions and harassment in the workplace; unlawful discriminations based upon race, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation and disability; wrongful terminations, whistle-blowing, civil rights claims, review of severance agreements and negotiation of favorable severance agreements.

Our Job is Protecting Your Job!

The firm also encourages employees with knowledge of illegal activities by their employers costing loss of taxpayer dollars to federal or state government (e.g., Medicare fraud, inflated charges to government for supplies and parts, etc.) to contact it. Where permitted, the firm will pursue qui tam actions against the employers to secure monetary recoveries which benefit not only government but also the employees bringing to light such activities.

In the first instance, Zuckerman & Fisher tries to resolve employee-employer disputes through negotiations designed at producing settlements which are fair to its clients and acceptable to the employers. When the client wishes it, the firm participates in mandatory or voluntary arbitrations and mediations, with court-appointed persons, retired judges or privately selected facilitators. The firm is all too aware of the costs and pressures of trial, with the attendant emotional hardships on individuals having to repeatedly re-live work experiences they would much rather leave behind; and so it strives to avoid litigation where a negotiated settlement can provide a non-adversarial but fair outcome.

There is occasion, however, when negotiation is not successful. In such an instance, Zuckerman & Fisher, on agreement with its client, is committed to institution of litigation and aggressive pursuit of the employee's claims. Its attorneys are experienced litigators who have achieved substantial successful conclusions for clients. The firm is conversant with the rules applying to New Jersey state courts and federal district courts; and it has no hesitation to try a case in any of them. It has appeared in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey in its three locations (Newark, Trenton and Camden); and it travels state-wide to pursue its clients' claims in the following counties: Atlantic County, Bergen County, Burlington County, Camden County, Cape May County, Cumberland County, Essex County, Hudson County, Gloucester County, Hunterdon County, Mercer County, Middlesex County, Monmouth County, Morris County, Ocean County, Passaic County, Salem County, Somerset County, Sussex County, Union County and Warren County.

The firm also handles civil appeals of court cases adverse to employees, regardless of whether the firm was involved in the cases prior to appeal. Its attorneys have appellate experience at all appellate levels of the New Jersey state court system and in the federal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Ms. Zuckerman is also admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, while Mr. Fisher has also filed amicus curiae briefs in the Supreme Court in matters on which that court issued full opinions. By reason of their duties in the New Jersey Attorney General's Office and their practice in employment law, both have levels of appellate experience many attorneys never obtain.

Zuckerman & Fisher has as its goals:

• Provision of competent and efficient legal advice and services at a reasonable cost and in a manner affordable to the client (depending upon the circumstances; hourly rate, flat fee, contingent fee, a blended arrangement consisting of a reduced hourly rate and contingent fee combination);
• Personal attention to its clients that may often be lacking from a larger law firm, especially one which otherwise represents corporations and employers;
• Satisfied clients.

Towards these goals, the firm has intentionally remained small in size and numbers of cases handled.

Ultimately, one sentence describes the mission of Zuckerman & Fisher : "Our job is protecting your job!"

Our Job is Protecting Your Job!