Podvey Meanor Douglas E. Motzenbecker

Contact Information
Phone: 973.623.1000
Fax: 973.623.9131
Email: dmotzenbecker@podvey.com

Practice Areas

Employment Law Complex and Commercial Litigation
Location
Newark, NJ

Douglas E. Motzenbecker

Director

Undergraduate
Muhlenberg College, 1982

Law School
Vermont Law School, 1985

Doug Motzenbecker has developed an active litigation practice emphasizing labor, employment, insurance coverage, securities, and other complex litigation. Doug defends management exclusively in employment discrimination actions (age, gender, race, sexual orientation, sexual harassment, and related cases) in state and federal court, and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state civil rights agencies. He counsels employers on compliance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, the Family and Medical Leave Act, ERISA, and other employee rights matters, and with respect to restrictive covenants reductions-in-force, employee handbooks, and other statutory and common law obligations affecting management. He also defends securities fraud and other Complex Commercial Litigation.

Doug is an Associate Editor of Litigation News, a publication of the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation, is a Leader of the Section of Litigation, and writes six to eight articles each year on subjects in his practice areas. He regularly attends Section meetings and leadership functions. Doug has been a Barrister in the William J. Brennan, Jr., Essex Inns of Court, and participates with other leading members of the bar in monthly meetings focusing on pretrial procedure and trial practice. Doug has presented several lectures on ERISA, employment practices liability, and insurance matters. His ERISA seminar format has been accredited by the New York State Board of Continuing Legal Education.

Doug is admitted the state and federal bars of New Jersey, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the state courts of New York.