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.

W to Kids: Go to Hell!

By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
Did you hear the one about W vetoing the bipartisan supported child health care bill that would have provided an expansion of the federally funded, state-run health insurance program for poor children to cover an additional 10 million children? No? It didn’t get much air play. The cost of [...]

Former Marty Markowitz aide files lawsuit alleging torment

KIRSTEN DANIS, DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF reports about Regina Weiss claims:
Tuesday, December 4th 2007, 4:00 AM
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz improperly ordered staffers to work on his 2005 reelection campaign and turned a blind eye to office sexual shenanigans, his former communications chief charged Monday.
Regina Weiss claims in a discrimination lawsuit that she [...]

FORMER EMPLOYEE FILES DISCRIMINATION SUIT AGAINST BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT

Cites hostile work environment, misuse of office, neglect of public interest

In a lawsuit filed today in State Supreme Court, Kings County, a former employee of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz claims she was systematically undermined and illegally removed from her job after enduring more than a year of discriminatory treatment based on her age and [...]