Attorney Profiles
 Richard A. West Jr.
Roseland, New Jersey
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Richard A. West, Jr., concentrates his practice in employment law (representing management and defendants); wage and hour law; commercial litigation, including non-compete litigation; appellate practice; and governmental and administrative law.
He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law Newark, a Barrister in the Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
He has published two law review articles: No Plaintiff Left Behind: Liability for Workplace Discrimination and Retaliation in New Jersey, 28 Seton Hall Legislative Journal 127 (2003); and We the People: Limitations on Congressional Term Limits are Unconstitutional Content-Determinative Regulations, 46 Rutgers Law Review 1787 (1994). He is Managing Editor of New Jersey Labor and Employment Law (New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education 2d Ed. 2005), and is a Chapter Editor of the book Jury Instructions in Employment Litigation (ABA 2005 Supp.). He has also written articles for publications such as New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly and New Jersey Lawyer, and has participated in seminars on behalf of the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Council on Education in Management and the New Jersey State Bar Foundation.
In September 2004, he was named by New Jersey Law Journal as one of its Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 in New Jersey. He was recently selected for inclusion in the upcoming 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc., publishers) in the specialty of Labor and Employment Law.
He is a former judicial clerk to the Honorable Freda L. Wolfson, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
- Administrative Law
- Civil Rights
- Discrimination
- Employment Law -- Employer
- Labor Law
- Litigation & Appeals
- Sexual Harassment
- 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
- New Jersey, 1993
- U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1993
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 2004
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law - Newark, Newark, New Jersey,
1993
J.D.
- Rutgers University,
1990
B.A.
- No Plantiff Left Behind: Liability for Workplace Discrimination and Retaliation in New Jersey, Seton Hall Legislative Journal, 127, 2003
- Two New Restrictions on Employees Seeking to Compete Against Their Former Employer, New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly, Vol. 25 No. 1, 2001
- We the People: Limitations on Congressional Term Limits are Unconstitutional Content-Determinative Regulations, Rutgers Law Review, 47; 1787, 1994
- New Jersey Labor and Employment Law (Managing Editor), New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2nd Edition, 2005
- Model Jury Instructions: Employment Litigation (Chapter Editor), ABA, 2005
- Scot v. New Jersey, 143 Fed. Appx 443
(3rd Cir. 2005)
- Beasley v. Passaic County, 377 N.J. Super. 585, 873 A. 2d 673
(App. Div. 2005)
- Klein v. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 377 N.J. Super. 28, 871 A.2d 681
(App. Div. 2005)
- New Jersey Dept. of Labor v. Pepsi-Cola Co., 170 N.J. 59, 784 A. 2d 64
( 2001)
- New Jersey Dept. of Labor v. Pepsi-Cola Co., 336 N.J. Super. 532, 765 A.2d 760
(App. Div 2001)
- Hot Tips in Labor and Employment Law, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education,
December 9, 2005
- Non-Compete Agreements for Commercial Lawyers, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education,
December 6, 2005
- New Jersey Employment Law Model Jury Charges, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education,
February 7, 2004
- Statutory Entitlements: FMLA, NJFLA, TDI and Workers' and Unemployment Compensation, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education,
January 18, 2003
- Personnel Law Update 1999: Specific Steps to Tak in Response to the Critical 1999 Supreme Court Labor and Employment Decisions, Council on Education in Management,
1999
- Discrimination in the Workplace, New Jersey State Bar Foundation,
1997
- Discrimination in the Workplace, New Jersey State Bar Foundation,
2002
- New Jersey Law Journal, Named as one of its "Top 40 Lawyers under 40."
- Model Jury Charges Sub-committee
- Co-Chair
- Sidney Reitman Labor and Employment Law Inn of Court
- Barrister,Labor and Employment
- Honorable Freda L. Wolfson, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Judicial Clerk
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