Biography

Mr. Monachino is a partner in the Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Trade Secrets, Product Liability and Business Torts Practice Groups in the New York office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. His civil litigation practice covers the full spectrum of litigation services, including litigation management, motion practice, jury trials and appeals before federal and state courts and administrative agencies, in employment discrimination, restrictive covenants, trade-secret theft, corporate espionage, unfair competition, class action, privacy rights, and complex commercial and real estate litigation. Mr. Monachino also counsels clients generally regarding compliance with federal and state employment and privacy regulations and trade secrets protection strategies; he negotiates and drafts employment contracts, independent contractor agreements, severance agreements, non-competition, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, personnel policies and company handbooks.  

Mr. Monachino has previously worked in the New York State Attorney General's Office, where he was Special Litigation Counsel and handled a wide variety of significant and controversial cases, including successfully representing the Governor and Attorney General in the death penalty controversy argued on Court TV, the Office of Mental Health concerning the right to compel mandatory AIDS testing, the Office of Court Administration on behalf of 141 Acting State Supreme Court Justices in a voting rights challenge, and the New York State Division of Human Rights in a class action discrimination suit.  Prior to his tenure as an Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Monachino worked at a major Wall Street law firm, specializing in complex commercial litigation. During that time, Mr. Monachino was also appointed as a Special Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan to argue criminal appeals.  Mr. Monachino has been lead counsel or co-counsel on over forty reported cases in state and federal court and has served as an adjunct faculty member of trial advocacy at Hofstra University School of Law.

Education

J.D., Boston University, honors (1990)

Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards in Estate Planning and Securities Regulation

B.S., Lehigh University, honors (1987)

Admissions

• New Jersey
• New York

Courts

• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 
• U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of New York
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan