MARTIN F. PAYSON
MARTIN F. PAYSON is a Partner in the national labor, employment, benefits and immigration law firm of Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman. Since joining the firm in 1967, Mr. Payson has specialized in the practice of employment and labor law representing the interests of management.
Mr. Payson received his undergraduate degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from the City University of New York, and obtained a Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1966. He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Circuit Courts of Appeals and is admitted to the Bar of the States of New York and Pennsylvania. Mr. Payson is a member of both the American and New York State Bar Associations, serving as an active member of their respective Labor Law Sections.
An experienced practitioner, Mr. Payson has represented the interests of management in federal and state courts, before federal and state fair employment practice administrative agencies, and before the National Labor Relations Board. He has extensive experience in the representation of management faced with union organizing drives and National Labor Relations Board elections. He has placed special emphasis on assisting clients in the development and implementation of preventive workplace practices, procedures and programs, most recently focusing on the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms as both a litigation avoidance and union avoidance strategy.
Based upon his extensive experience, Mr. Payson has frequently spoken on a variety of contemporary workplace issues. He has appeared on NBC and CBS news shows and has co-hosted a series of programs on personnel issues and the law. He recently has been interviewed by both the BBC and ITN Channel 4.
His insightful remarks have been quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business Week, Industry Week and in numerous professional journals and management publications. He has published a wide variety of articles in such publications as Nation’s Business, Personnel Journal, Trial Magazine, and is a contributing editor to the text, Winning NLRB Elections: Management Strategy and Preventive Programs. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment. He is listed in Who’s Who In America.
Mr. Payson has served as faculty for the Young President’s Organization, Executive Enterprises Institute, Advanced Management Research and the American Management Association. He held the position of adjunct professor of labor and employee relations at the University of Rochester and was visiting lecturer at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
is a partner at Jackson Lewis, a preventive labor, employment, immigration and benefits law firm representing management exclusively. Mr. Lotito is a graduate of Villanova University and Villanova Law School. He was named by Villanova as their Top Human Resources Alumnus of the 20th Century. He has devoted his entire professional career to representing management interests in labor and employment law. He is a member of the California and American Bar Associations. Mr. Lotito has received professional accreditation in the human resources field by achieving the SPHR designation for life. He is listed in “Who’s Who in American Law”, “Who’s Who in California” and is a Life Member of the National Registry of Who’s Who. Mr. Lotito was the first non-practitioner to Chair the Society For Human Resource Management, the largest human resource association in the world. He has traveled the globe for SHRM making presentations from Juneau, Alaska to Johannesburg, South Africa and many places in between. He is a past chairman of SHRM’s National Legislative Affairs Committee and served on its Employee and Labor Relations Committee. In these capacities, he has influenced legislation such as the ADA and has testified before the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. A frequent workshop presenter, Michael is noted for his wit, insights and practical solutions to workplace issues. He is a resource for TEC Worldwide, an international organization of company presidents. He has given numerous presentations before TEC groups and was named TEC’s Most Outstanding Resource. Most recently, he was honored as a member of TEC 200, a designation which places him among the top 1% of all TEC presenters from the many thousands who have participated in a TEC program. Mr. Lotito has appeared on PBS’ “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer”, Fox TV’s “The Schneider Report”, CBS Radio’s “Gil Gross Show”, frequently appears on National Public Radio, and was quoted in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal regarding the EEOC’s guidelines on mental disabilities. He is regularly quoted on a variety of employment law topics in major publications including Forbes, Business Week, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The National Law Journal, Nation’s Business, and The Conference Board’s magazine, Across The Board. Most recently he has been published by the Harvard Business Review.