David helps employers avoid costly employment disputes when they can be circumvented, and face down those in which a challenge is inevitable.

Skilled in negotiation, dispute resolution and arbitration, employers turn to David with their labor and employment issues, starting with counseling and dispute-avoidance, through successful litigation and closure. A hallmark of his practice is assuring that services are efficient and affordable.

David is known for successfully negotiating cost-effective labor contracts, avoiding strikes, and maintaining positive employee relations. It should come as little surprise that in his youth, prior to law school, David was a president of a union local – a background experience that has served to engender trust and respect among his adversaries, while helping to inform a successful tough-but-fair negotiating approach.

A skilled litigator, David has experience in a wide array of employment discrimination matters, sexual harassment cases, wage-hour and overtime class issues, restrictive covenant cases, contract cases, plant closings, NLRB proceedings and elections, and many other facets of labor and employment law.

His clients include major hospital, health care, and home care employers – union-represented and union-free – women-owned and women-run businesses, as well as employers in industries as diverse as fashion, finance, manufacturing, energy, food service, and transportation. David considers responsiveness, communication and sensitivity to be cornerstones of his practice.

Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC

Bond has one of the largest and most experienced labor and employment law practices in the Northeast. The firm’s size ensures familiarity with any workplace issue. Our depth ensures that our familiarity is based on firsthand experience.

In 2018 our practice was recognized as a Tier 1 National Practice by U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” for employment law – management; labor law – management; and litigation – labor & employment. In addition, in the 2017 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, Bond has more Employment Law – Management and Labor Law – Management attorneys recognized than any other firm in New York State.

Representing management exclusively, in union and non-union settings, our attorneys serve large international corporations, medium and small businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, not-for-profit corporations, and public sector entities. Our industry experience runs the gamut, including manufacturing, higher education, health care, biomedical, construction, transportation, financial services, retail, telecommunications, municipalities and school districts, energy, agriculture, technology, insurance, defense and government contractors, hospitality, food, security and more.

We provide counsel related to wage/hour and benefits issues, and assist in the development of employment-related policies, procedures and handbooks. On a day-to-day basis, we provide guidance to human resource and business unit managers on the many different laws encompassing employees’ rights. Our goals are to help our clients create and maintain a positive human relations environment in their workplace through employee engagement and to support them in anticipating and preventing employment problems, as well as assisting them to resolve current issues. Should the need for litigation counsel arise, our team is prepared to handle a full range of labor and employment-related litigation matters, in all agencies and courts. Our attorneys are also seasoned advisors in the areas of collective bargaining, administration of collective bargaining agreements, and grievance and arbitration proceedings.