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Jessica Harris joined the firm in 2016, following a two-year clerkship with the Honorable Janet Bond Arterton, United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut. She represents public and private sector unions in proceedings before arbitrators, the National Labor Relations Board and the New York State Public Employment Relations Board, and state and federal courts. Ms. Harris also represents individual employees in employment and civil rights matters, including wage and hour litigation, employment discrimination cases, and severance agreement negotiations.
Ms. Harris graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School. During law school, Ms. Harris wrote for the labor and employment blog OnLabor.org, worked as a Peggy Browning Fellow with Service Employees International Union in Washington D.C., and was a summer associate at Altshuler Berzon in San Francisco. In addition, Ms. Harris worked at Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ in Boston as part of Harvard’s Employment Law Clinic.
Prior to law school, Ms. Harris drafted arbitration awards in contract and discipline disputes for a labor arbitrator and served as the Project Coordinator for Stanford and Columbia Universities’ Parliamentary Scorecard Project in Kampala, Uganda.
Ms. Harris received her undergraduate degree from Yale University, where she graduated magna cum laude.
She is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals.