About Us

Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP is a progressive New York City law firm dedicated to the empowerment of women in the workplace. We represent individuals experiencing all forms of workplace discrimination, specifically those affecting women, including sexual harassment, equal pay, pregnancy discrimination and family and medical leave act violations.

(Homo)Sex and the City

By Lauren Tetenbaum
Last week, New York Governor David Paterson directed all state agencies to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. It’s about time New York made such a stride.
As a native Manhattanite, New York State laws frequently strike me as bizarre. From the race-biased Rockefeller drug [...]

Every breath you take : Jack Tuckner on How to Respond to a Complaint

The following article has been published in May issue of First Line Magazine:

By Portia Stewart, Editor, FirstLine

He’s watching you. You can’t concentrate, you’re afraid to be alone with him, and the comments won’t stop. Sexual harassment can be relentless, consuming your work and your life. It happened to these women—and it could happen to you. [...]

Jack Tuckner’s preliminary response to the false allegations filed against him

By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
As many of you know, I have recently been viciously attacked, along with the discrimination law firm which I have co-founded, Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP, by a former employee, Lisa Brockington.
Ms. Brockington, the person now making these despicable and false allegations against the firm in general and me in [...]