Proskauer Rose LLP

Labor & Employment

Lloyd B. Chinn is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of the Whistleblowing & Retaliation Practice Group and of the Financial Services Practice Group. He litigates employment disputes of all types before federal and state courts, arbitration tribunals (e.g., FINRA, JAMS and AAA), and before administrative agencies in New York and across the country.  Lloyd is a trial lawyer, having first-chaired 35+ trials or arbitrations to conclusion. His practice ranges from litigating compensation disputes to defending whistleblower, discrimination and sexual harassment claims and litigating non-compete and trade secret matters. Although he represents employers in a wide range of industries, including law, insurance, health care, consulting, media, music, education, and technology, he focuses a substantial portion of his practice on the financial services sector. Many of Lloyd's clients are international in scope, often based outside the U.S.

Due to Lloyd’s litigation experience, clients regularly turn to him for advice regarding the full range of employment matters, including terminations, whistleblower policy and procedure, restrictive covenants, reductions in force, employment agreements, and employment policies.  Lloyd has also been retained to conduct internal investigations of allegations of workplace misconduct, including claims leveled against senior executives.

Lloyd has represented global businesses in matters involving Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank whistleblower claims. He has taken an active role in the American Bar Association on these issues, currently serving as Co-Chair of the Whistleblower subcommittee of the ABA Employee Rights and Responsibilities Committee. Lloyd has spoken on whistleblowing topics before a numerous organizations, including the American Bar Association, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the International Bar Association, ALI-ABA, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York University School of Law. He has testified twice before Congressional subcommittees regarding whistleblower legislation and has also published blog postings, articles and client alerts on a variety of topics in this area, including the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower provisions. Lloyd is a co-editor of Proskauer’s Whistleblower Defense Blog, and he has been widely quoted by on whistleblower topics by a number of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National Law Journal and Law 360.

Lloyd has also become active in the International Bar Association, presenting on a variety of subjects, including: the #MeToo movement, the COVID-19 pandemic and employment law, and cross-border harmonization of employment provisions in transactions.  Lloyd also hosts a quarterly roundtable discussion among financial services industry in-house employment lawyers.  He has also published articles and given speeches on a variety of other employment-law topics, including non-solicitation provisions, FINRA arbitration rules, cross-border discovery, e-discovery, and the use of experts.