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 […]

“My reproductive rights got in the way of the mission”: Krista Errickson

Krista Errickson has refused to be a mere addition to the ever growing statistics related to pregnancy discrimination at American workplace.
Instead, she has filed a lawsuit against her former employer Faye Wattleton. Ironically, Wattleton represents a non-profit working in the sphere of women’s rights, Center for the Advancement of Women.
Jack Tuckner, who represents […]

The Price for Fair Pay

By Samantha Mc Lane
Equal Pay Day is a movement that aims for the benefit of all working women in the United States without exception. However, as incredible as it is that gender inequity still persists in this century, inequity and differences remain between races, national origin and legal status. The statistics say it: Latinas earn […]

Equal Pay Day

Today is being observed as Equal Pay Day (the point in 2008 when the average woman’s wages finally catch up with what the average man earned in 2007). As ceremonious as it may sound, its apt to look at the statistics once again with hope and protest.
Women in the US, working full-time, year-round earn […]

MSNBC’s Morning Joe is Disgusting

Not really strange that Morning Joe found the pregnant transgender man “disgusting”. What is more bothersome is that the anchors were visibly so upset at the news and so absolutely unbelievably shocked that one must cease to wonder why the country is truly headed in wrong direction (81% of Americans believe so, according to latest […]

A Wrinkle Of Hope In N.H.

By LENORE SKENAZY
January 9, 2008
Rush Limbaugh put it best. Contemplating a photo of Senator Clinton looking wrinkled and weary a few weeks back, he asked, “Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?”
Iowa said no way. New Hampshire seems to have said: Maybe. That’s a […]

Two African-American Women File Suit Against the Garden

By Sonali Chhibber
As you will read in the NY Times article today, Tuckner Sipser filed suit yesterday against Madison Square Garden and Cablevision Systems Corporation on behalf of our clients Diane Henson and Sheila Gay-Robbins. Once again MSG has proven that it has a wanton disregard for its female employees. The people in […]

New slavery investigation on: Tomato pickers continue to suffer

By Sonali Chhibber
A recent New York Time article entitled “Campaign to Raise Tomato Picker’s Wages Faces Obstacles” highlights the plights of tomato pickers amidst corporate clashes and compromises with the cooperatives.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers wants to raise the price of tomatoes to a penny more per pound. This would mean that the wages […]