Speaker:

Jonathan’s practice focuses on:

·          Preventive counseling, training and policy development, for example, with regard to harassment, diversity/glass ceiling issues, performance management, ADA, FMLA and FLSA compliance, violence, substance abuse, hiring and recruiting and workplace privacy.

·          Contracts/agreements/manuals, for example, employment agreements, executive contracts, severance agreements, ADR agreements, non-compete and other post-termination agreements, employee handbooks and managerial manuals.

·          Traditional labor, for example, union prevention audits and systems, anti-union campaigns, collective bargaining and management rights training.

·          Adversarial proceedings and government investigations, for example, EEO and other administrative charges as well DOL and other investigations.

Jonathan has served as a consultant to the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C., providing training on employment issues to federal judges around the country. In this capacity, Jonathan has been the featured speaker at conferences for Chief United States District Judges.

Jonathan is also frequently a featured speaker at national, state and local human resource, business and legal conferences, including conferences sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management, the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Business and Industry and ACCA.

Jonathan consistently has been one of the top-rated speakers at numerous SHRM National Conferences, including SHRM’s Annual Conference, Diversity Conference, EMA Conference and Employment Law and Legislative Conference.

Jonathan is the Legislative Director for PA State Council of SHRM, Inc.

Jonathan also has lectured regularly at the University of Pennsylvania’s Masters Program in Organizational Dynamics and Villanova University’s SHRM Accreditation Course.

Jonathan has been cited as a national authority on employment issues in articles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, CNN Online, Business Week Online and Money, among others.

Jonathan hosted a television special on sexual harassment, "The Sexual Harassment Quiz." The special, which was based on a supervisory training exercise that Jonathan developed, has been broadcast on more than 200 PBS stations throughout the country.

Jonathan is the Chair of WolfBlock’s Higher Education Group. A member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, Jonathan provides legal counsel to public and private, secular and sectarian, colleges and universities. Jonathan also has been a featured speaker at NACUA and  CUPA conferences.

Jonathan received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

Prior to joining WolfBlock LLP, Jonathan clerked for the Honorable Norma L. Shapiro, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Jonathan is a member of the Pennsylvania and New York Bar.