Janet Neschis is a member of McLaughlin & Stern’s litigation department. Ms. Neschis is a graduate of NYU Law School, where she was a recipient of the Moot Court Advocacy Award and was an editor on the Moot Court Board.

Ms. Neschis has a broad range of experience in civil litigation matters, including labor and employment law, defamation, securities fraud, and intellectual property, as well as general commercial matters.

Over the past several years Ms. Neschis has specialized in employment discrimination matters and has represented both individual plaintiffs and corporate defendants on issues of gender, age, race and ethnicity. She has represented plaintiffs at the management or professional level against such defendants as Goldman Sachs, Coudert Brothers, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York Life Insurance Company and the New York City Police Department. Ms. Neschis also represents executives in the negotiation of employment agreements.

Ms. Neschis has successfully argued numerous appeals, including an appeal to the Second Circuit which defined when the statute of limitations begins to run in a case of constructive discharge.

In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Neschis has represented clients with major art collections and has dealt extensively with both museums and auction houses. Ms. Neschis helped negotiate a gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art of her client Natasha Gelman’s collection of 20th century European art, which gift was announced in May 1998. The museum’s director, Philippe de Montebello, described the gift as the most important gift ever to the museum’s 20th century department and one of the most important gifts to any department in the museum. Ms. Neschis is also the co-trustee for the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, a charitable trust formed by Mrs. Gelman to provide support to the arts.

Ms. Neschis lives in Larchmont, New York, where she is a member of the board and a past president of the Friends of the Larchmont Public Library.