Jill K. Grant is an associate in the Litigation Department. Jill represents individuals, private business, and corporations in a variety of complex litigation matters. She has extensive experience defending employers in class action litigation involving anti-discrimination and wage-and-hour laws. She also regularly counsels clients on compliance with employment laws, internal investigations, restrictive covenants and non-competition disputes and litigation avoidance. Drawing on her employment litigation experience, Jill also routinely counsels clients on a breadth of employment issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions.
Jill has an extensive pro bono practice. Her pro bono work has included drafting amicus briefs on behalf of the Innocence Network, asylum matters, and representing domestic violence victims in matrimonial and family law matters. Jill also represents Women In Need, Inc., the largest provider of shelters and transitional housing for homeless families in New York City. In 2011, Jill received inMotion’s Commitment to Justice Award for her representation of a client in a contested divorce.