JACK B. TUCKNER, ESQ.
Jack Tuckner, Esq. is a leading women’s rights attorney and a founding partner of Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP. His New York City law firm, a Plaintiff’s employment law practice, has grown into one of the most respected and active women’s rights legal practices in the nation, where he has established a reputation for legal activism and the pursuit of justice for all women. Jack Tuckner is committed to the ongoing struggle for workplace equality and his firm provides vital advocacy for those who have been undermined and marginalized by unjust employment policies. The firm specializes in the representation of women who have been denied their rights and/or victimized in the workplace as a result of their status as women.
Jack Tuckner graduated cum laude from Hunter College in 1984, before earning his Juris Doctor degree in 1987 from the City University of New York Law School at Queens College, a public interest school dedicated to “law in the service of human needs.” Jack Tuckner took this mandate to heart and dedicated his entire career to civil rights law and the representation of individuals in need. He commenced his law practice as a public defender in the Bronx, where he successfully tried numerous cases to verdict as a senior trial attorney. Then, he founded Jack Bryant Tuckner & Associates in 1992, where his decidedly “holistic” practice began concentrating in the arena of women’s rights law. In 2001, he co-founded Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP, the only women’s rights in the workplace litigation boutique in the nation.
Jack Tuckner has served as an advocate and commentator for women’s discrimination issues across the media spectrum, including on NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams, CW11, NY1 News, 1010Wins, FOX and National Public Radio, as well as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal online, New York Daily News, and at numerous civic and grass roots community meetings and seminars in the tri-state area. He has also spoken regarding Gender Pay Disparity at the American Association of University Women, and he is a frequent public speaker regarding Domestic Violence and Working Women, at an array of public and private forums, including the New York State Bar Association’s annual conference in Saratoga, NY, and at Liz Claiborne’s “Time to Talk about Domestic Violence,” her annual day of group activism and national radio interviews with domestic violence experts.
WILLIAM J. SIPSER, ESQ.
As one of the fou
nding partners of Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP, Mr. Sipser has been a leading practitioner in the area of Labor Law and Employment Law Discrimination for almost twenty years. His practice includes extensive litigation experience in state and federal courts, and before several governmental agencies involving representation of individuals and labor unions. Mr. Sipser has prosecuted significant cases, including appeals before the Appellate Division of the State of New York as well as the federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He argued a critical employment discrimination issue before the New York State Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, in September 2004. Mr. Sipser recently briefed, argued and won an important civil service case before the New York State Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan.
Mr. Sipser has tried hundreds of administrative cases and arbitrations concerning employment issues, including grievances and discharge cases. Recognized for his success in participating in employment discrimination alternative dispute resolution, Mr. Sipser was recently one of the featured speakers and participants in a forum on mediation of employment disputes in a continuing legal education seminar held at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Mr. Sipser served as an Assistant Commissioner for Labor Relations in the New York City Department of Correction, where he was responsible for ensuring stable labor relations in this major city agency, with its approximately 13,000 uniformed and civilian employees. He also served as an Associate in the law firm of Sipser, Weinstock, Harper & Dorn, LLP, and worked extensively and closely with his late father, I. Philip Sipser, who was one of the foremost labor attorneys in the country.
Mr. Sipser graduated from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where he was an Associate Editor of the Association of Student International Law Societies’ International Law Journal.
Mr. Sipser is admitted to the New York State Bar, the Washington D.C. Bar, the New Jersey State Bar, the United States District Courts in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York as well as the District of New Jersey and the Second Circuit United States Court of Appeals.