Orin Kurtz, Esq.
Orin Kurtz is an experienced litigator of securities class actions, consumer cases, and employment class actions and collective actions and is responsible for the firm’s employment litigation department.
Orin currently is one of the court-appointed class counsel representing over 200,000 current and former employees of General Electric in an action for breach of fiduciary duty and prohibited transactions in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
Orin is a chapter editor for the forthcoming American Bar Association Employment At Will treatise, and was an author of the American Bar Association 2015 Review of Consumer Protection Law Developments (New York State section), American Bar Association 2013 Review of Consumer Protection Law Developments (New York State section), and the American Bar Association 2010 Review of Consumer Protection Law Developments. Orin is a frequent lecturer on the subject of employment class and collective actions and has taught CLE at conferences of the American Bar Association and the National CLE Conference, and at Marino CLE.
Orin received his B.S. from the State University of New York, New Paltz, in 1998 and his J.D., magna cum laude, from New York Law School in 2004. During law school, Orin served as an Executive Articles Editor on the New York Law School Law Review. He is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.