Amy Epstein Gluck

Amy Epstein Gluck partners with organizations to arrive at sustainable policies to alleviate and prevent workplace problems and create solutions to challenges, including hybrid work and fostering inclusive workplaces; she handles workplace investigations and wage and hour audits; and navigates discrimination, harassment, and retaliation issues while complying with federal, state, and local employment laws. She handles workplace compliance and defense of Title VII, ADA, FMLA, and ADEA claims as well as misclassification issues and all matters involving people.

Ms. Epstein Gluck is a business employment lawyer. For decades, she has advised clients about their use of noncompete, nonsolicitation, and nondisclosure agreements to protect client confidential information. Amy drafts employment agreements; handles employment negotiations, severance agreements, noncompete and nondisclosure agreements, discrimination, and harassment investigations, “wrongful terminations,” and other employment matters. Ms. Epstein Gluck passionately litigates these matters in state and federal court.

Ms. Epstein Gluck’s agility and extensive expertise has been critical to the Pierson Ferdinand’s development of a centralized COVID-19 information repository and response team regarding federal and state pandemic-related legislation.

She serves as the Pierson and Ferdinand’s Employment Counsel advising the firm and its partners setting and advising the firm’s employment policies.

A dynamic and natural speaker, Ms. Epstein Gluck regularly conducts employee management and anti-harassment trainings for managers and employees and trains supervisors on how to recognize and respond to accommodation requests under the ADA and FMLA.

An experienced litigator, Ms. Epstein Gluck has represented corporate clients in state and various federal courts for more than twenty-five years. She focuses her litigation practice on breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, tortious interference, injunctive actions, restrictive covenants, shareholder and partnership disputes, and contract/quasi-contractual disputes in court as well as in mediation and arbitration.

Ms. Epstein Gluck authors the Pierson Ferdinand Employment Law Blog and regularly contributes legal expertise to The Washington Post concerning prevalent and pertinent employment law issues. She has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Business Insurance, Bloomberg Law, SHRM, and Law360.

Ms. Epstein Gluck is a founding member of Chief and the Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law in Washington, D.C.; and she is an Advisory Board Member for nonprofit Nerdy Girl Success, which works with high school girls of diverse backgrounds teaching them skills, providing resources, and helping build their network of women in leadership, and The Bowman Foundation for Workplace Equity and Mental Wellness.

To learn more about Amy, view her LinkedIn profile.

Follow Amy on Twitter: @aegluck2

Sub-specialties:
Employment law counseling and litigation – workplace policies and practices; discrimination, harassment, retaliation; noncompetes; business law