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Mr. Wigdor represented a former employee of the United Way of Dutchess County in a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against the United Way that has received considerable attention in the media following the resignation of one of the named-defendants and former executive director of the United Way of Dutchess County.

Mr. Wigdor represented a group of former Radianz employees who brought claims of race discrimination against Radianz, Reuters PLC and Equant N.V. These claims received international media coverage including the BBC, The Guardian and New York Daily News.  The lawsuit alleged that black employees at Radianz, a software company then-owned by Reuters, were forced to endure to “an outrageous, patently…

After working for one of the nation’s preeminent management-side labor and employment firms, Mr. Wigdor founded his own law firm specializing in employment litigation, Thompson Wigdor LLP, which he co-founded with Kenneth P. Thompson, a fellow lawyer in Morgan Lewis’s Labor & Employment department. The firm, which was re-named Wigdor LLP after Thompson became District Attorney of King’s County, New…

Mr. Wigdor worked in the Labor & Employment Section of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, one of the nation’s preeminent management-side labor and employment firms. There, he litigated cases on behalf of Fortune 500 clients on issues relating to a broad range of U.S. and U.K. labor and employment matters.

Mr. Wigdor drafted dozens of judicial opinions while serving as Federal Law Clerk to U.S. District Judge Arthur D. Spatt, the vast majority of which consisted of labor and employment matters.  In an online profile of Mr. Wigdor, Judge Spatt commented, “Mr. Wigdor is a winner.

As an Assistant District Attorney, Mr. Wigdor investigated, prosecuted and tried hundreds of criminal matters ranging from robberies and burglaries to complex scheme to defraud. Mr. Wigdor was rapidly promoted to the Complex Litigation Bureau where he both litigated and supervised the litigation of white collar — complex financial crimes, including organized crime, bank fraud, insurance fraud, tax evasion, identity…