Eliza I. Schultz

Eliza Schultz joined Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss in 2023. Ms. Schultz represents labor unions in organizing campaigns, unfair labor practice proceedings, grievances and arbitrations, and contract administration. She also represents workers in wage and hour litigation and employment discrimination cases, on an individual basis, and in multi-plaintiff, collective and class actions. Ms. Schultz also counsels the Firm’s employee benefit fund clients. Previously, Ms. Schultz worked at another New York City union-side labor law firm, whose union clients were largely in the entertainment industry, and for New York Legal Assistance Group’s Employment Law Project, where she provided direct legal services to low-wage workers.

During law school, Ms. Schultz worked as a Peggy Browning Fund fellow at the National Employment Law Project and completed a fellowship with the Center for WorkLife Law. She graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2021.

Before law school, Ms. Schultz worked as a policy researcher at the Center for American Progress, where she was involved with the bargaining unit as a member and delegate to the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union.