Jessica Golden Cortes > Davis+Gilbert LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Davis+Gilbert LLP Offices
1675 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NY 10019
NEW YORK
United States
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Jessica Golden Cortes
Work Department
Labor + Employment
Position
Partner
Career
Jessica Golden Cortes provides clients with comprehensive employment counsel, ensures their regulatory compliance, and resolves workplace disputes when they arise. Her clients include businesses of all sizes from startups to established multinational corporations in industries such as advertising, marketing public relations, finance, fintech and architecture, and nonprofit religious and education-focused organizations.
Jessica is well known for her ability to analyze issues from a legal, practical and business perspective and for devising creative, cost-effective solutions to workplace issues. Business managers and human resources professionals rely on her for guidance on day-to-day issues such as hiring, terminations, reductions in workforce, restrictive covenants, wage and hour issues, federal and state family and medical leave laws, and a host of other employment-related matters. She drafts customized employment policies and handbooks, and structures and enforces employment and separation agreements.
Clients from across the nation call on Jessica to conduct employment trainings on respect in the workplace, diversity, equity and inclusion, eliminating unconscious bias, manager best practices, and many other topics. When issues arise, Jessica manages internal investigations of employee complaints, represents her clients in hearings before administrative agencies, and asserts and defends their interests in federal and state courts, and in mediation and arbitration proceedings. Jessica has prevailed in wide-ranging employment cases including race, sex, age, disability, failure to hire, and other discrimination cases, and breach of contract disputes.
Recognizing that avoiding problems in the first instance is the best strategy, Jessica crafts client-specific workplace policies and procedures, and works proactively with clients to help them foster a work environment where employees thrive, workplace conflicts are addressed constructively, and the risk of employee claims is minimized.
Education
Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2001; Wesleyan University, B.A., with high honors, 1998
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Based in New York, Davis+Gilbert LLP’s labor and employment team offers a wide range of employment counseling services, including conducting investigations and internal audits, creating investigation training programs, and assisting in implementing preventative management procedures. Notably, the firm serves as the national employment counsel for Turner Construction Company, where it oversees the client’s labor obligations as a federal contractor. The practice is jointly led by Gregg Gilman and Daniel A Feinstein. Gilman is national employment counsel for several leading companies in the financial, marketing, communications, and real estate industries. Feinstein represents clients in a wide range of matters, including hiring, sexual harassment, and other types of internal investigations. Jessica Golden Cortes also comes recommended; she focuses on internal investigations of employee complaints. Shira Franco focuses on counseling clients particularly in the technology, healthcare, and financial services sectors. All individuals are based in New York.