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Lewis M. Steel

Recognized by Best Lawyers® since 1989.
685 Third Avenue, 25th Floor New York, New York 10017
(212) 207-0048
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Outten & Golden LLP


Years In Practice

59


Phone Number (212) 207-0048

LEWIS M. STEEL works on a wide range of class actions and individual cases, generally involving racial  and sexual discrimination  matters as well as labor law violations. Presently, as a member of an Outten & Golden team, he has been ligating class action claims challenging  the invalidated use by employers of criminal records to deny applicants jobs, including the ground breaking Gonzales v. Pritzker settlement  against the United States Census Bureau, for which Mr. Steel  and the team received  the 2017 Public Justice Award.  Mr. Steel has also been listed in Best Lawyers in America for more than twenty years.

Before joining Outten & Golden, Mr. Steel handled a wide range of civil rights cases involving housing and zoning discrimination, as well as police brutality and criminal cases. He served as co-lead counsel in the Rubin Carter/John Artis case for which he was honored by the New York Criminal Bar Association in 2000. Moreover, New York Law School has awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree for his civil rights work and he has been an adjunct professor of law there.

Mr. Steel’s precedent-setting employment discrimination decisions include Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. Avagliano, 457 U.S. 176, which established that American subsidiaries of foreign corporations must obey American civil rights laws. In the Sumitomo case and other employment discrimination class actions he has negotiated far-reaching settlements and monitored the companies’ performance. He now works on a range of class action cases involving sexual and racial discrimination, overtime claims, and tipping issues. Mr. Steel recently negotiated a ground-breaking settlement of pay, promotion, and retaliation claims for a class of African-American and Hispanic New York City Department of Parks and Recreation employees.

Mr. Steel graduated from Harvard College in 1958 and from New York Law School in 1963, where he was the Editor in Chief of the Law Review.

What legal services does this lawyer offer?
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Wage-Hour Law
Bar Admissions
New York
Admitted in 1963
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Awards
  • Best Lawyers in America since 1989
Languages
English
Education
New York Law School, LL.B.
Graduated 1963
Harvard University, B.S.
Graduated 1958
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Office: (212) 207-0048
685 Third Avenue, 25th Floor
New York, New York 10017
New York, New York 10017
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