Otsuki, Joy Heuser

Sam is of counsel to the labor & employment and issues & appeals practices of Jones Day. His practice focuses on a wide range of issues affecting the employment relationship, including designing ADR systems; training supervisors for performance-based management and employee involvement initiatives; advising clients in OFCCP, EEO, and labor relations compliance; and representing clients in individual, global HR management, and class EEO and wage and hour litigation.

In addition, Sam is the Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law and the Institute of Judicial Administration. He has published several books, including leading casebooks in labor law and employment discrimination and employment law; edited conference volumes on sexual harassment, employment ADR processes, and cross-global human resources; and authored more than 75 articles in professional and academic journals. He is the former secretary of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association and chief reporter of the proposed (third) "Restatement of Employment Law," sponsored by The American Law Institute. He has delivered named lectureships at UCLA, Chicago-Kent, Case Western, and Cleveland State law schools. Sam has also testified twice before Secretary of Labor Reich's and Secretary of Commerce Brown's Commission on the Future of U.S. Worker-Management Relations.

Sam's appellate practice includes victory in the Supreme Court in the Circuit City v. Adams litigation, broadening the availability of employment arbitration; victory in the Second Circuit overturning an interest arbitration award in The Daily News litigation; and amicus representation (in the Supreme Court) of the Cato Institute, the Center for Public Resources, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Black Alliance for Educational Options, the Society for Human Resources Management, and the Council for Employment Law Equity. He is also a member of the arbitration/mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association and Center for Public Resources.

Sam's practice also includes international litigation. He has recently filed amicus briefs in cases arising under the Alien Tort Act, including Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc., 453 F. Supp. 2d 633 (S.D.N.Y. 2006), on appeal, 07-0016 (2d Cir.) and Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004).