Patricia A. Barasch, a partner in the law firm of Schall & Barasch, LLC (Moorestown, NJ), served as President of the Institute and from 2010 to 2013, served as President of the National Employment Lawyers Association and was a member of its Executive Board from 2004 to 2015.
Throughout her nearly 25-year career, Ms. Barasch has represented employees in cases involving all types of unfair and illegal employment practices, including claims relating to race, sex, age, and disability discrimination, reasonable accommodation, the Family Medical Leave Act, wrongful termination, breach of contract, retaliation, and non-compete agreements. She has won a number of trial victories against some of the largest corporations in New Jersey, including PSEG, Raytheon, and Harrah’s Casino Hotel.
Ms. Barasch’s accomplishments as an employment lawyer have been recognized repeatedly. In every year since 2005, Ms. Barasch has been named by her peers to the list of “Super Lawyers” in New Jersey in the field of employment litigation-plaintiff. In 2006, South Jersey Magazine chose Ms. Barasch as one of the region’s “Top Women in Business” for her personification of “diligence, success, diversity of talent, and philanthropic spirit that characterizes an outstanding business leader.” In 2002, she was selected as one of New Jersey’s “Top 40 Lawyers Under 40” by the New Jersey Law Journal. Ms. Barasch graduated from Cornell Law School in 1993 and Wesleyan University in 1987. Prior to law school, she worked as a Research Assistant at Harvard Law School where she actively participated in the successful union organizing drive of approximately 3,500 clerical and technical workers across Harvard University.
