Labor and Employment Department; Employment Litigation & Counseling Practice Group (Co-Chair); Wage & Hour Litigation Practice Group.

Ariel Cudkowicz is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw's Boston office, serving as the Co-Chair of the firm's national Employment Litigation & Counseling Practice Group and as Co-Managing Partner of the Boston office. His practice focuses on employment litigation with a particular emphasis on wage and hour collective and class actions, complex single-plaintiff employment discrimination litigation and workplace advice and counseling. He specializes in representing companies in the retail industry in FLSA collective actions, and in the hospitality industry in class actions challenging the distribution of tips and service charges under state and federal laws. He also provides advice to Fortune 100 and 500 corporations on compliance with state and federal wage and hour laws and avoidance of litigation under those laws. Ariel has extensive experience defending single and multi-plaintiff employment discrimination cases brought under federal and state laws and employment-related breach of contract and tort claims. He also has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including arbitration, mediation, conciliation and summary and mini-trials encompassing most substantive areas of employment law.

JD, Georgetown University Law Center (1987); BA, University of Rochester (1984).