Biography

Richard Scharlat is a partner in the Labor and Employment Department in the New York office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Mr. Scharlat regularly handles complex commercial and employment-related disputes in Federal and State Courts in both New York and New Jersey, before American Arbitration Association panels, FINRA (formerly NASD), the New Jersey Department of Labor, and the New York Division of Human Rights. Mr. Scharlat also has extensive experience in advising companies and executives on various aspects of employment law, including hiring and termination practices, employment agreements, and discrimination issues.

Mr. Scharlat’s practice is concentrated on: disparate treatment litigation, breach of employment contract litigation, age and gender discrimination, whistleblower litigation (“CEPA”), Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), “FACTA” litigation, litigation avoidance counseling and executive compensation.  Additionally, Mr. Scharlat’s focus includes complex commercial litigation issues regarding misappropriation of trade secrets, restrictive covenants, breach of fiduciary duty, civil RICO, breach of consulting agreements, trade secret litigation, unfair competition litigation, employee raiding litigation, restrictive covenant drafting and litigation, and  sexual harassment investigations and litigation.

Education

J.D., Rutgers School of Law - Newark (1994)

Managing Notes and Comments Editor, Computer and Technology Law Journal
Order of the Barristers – Excellence in Oral Advocacy
Moot Court Board
Legal Research and Writing Instructor

B.A., Yeshiva University, cum laude (1990)

Belkin Scholar

Admissions

• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania (inactive)

Courts

• United States Supreme Court
• United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Southern and Western Districts of New York
• U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
• U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut