Overview

Steve Eckhaus, head of McDermott’s New York Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group, concentrates his practice in executive compensation, employment law and related litigation. Steve has earned a national reputation for representing decision makers in financial services, health care, technology, media, real estate, education and sports, for whom he has negotiated more than $6 billion in pay.

Equally adept in the courtroom as around the negotiating table, Steve has successfully litigated matters involving trade secrets, confidentiality and inventions agreements, restrictive covenants, fiduciary duties, contracts, Title VII, ERISA, securities, RICO, trusts and estates and criminal allegations.

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Recognitions

The American Lawyer’s Lateral All Stars (2017)
Human Resource Executive/Lawdragon – Nation’s 20 Most Powerful Employment Lawyers – Employee Benefits and ERISA (2017) (7^th consecutive year)
Legal 500 United States, New York Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, 2019

Chambers USA 2019
Super Lawyer – Employment Law, New York (2016) (10^th consecutive year)

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Community

Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Advisory Board, Hastings Law School Center for WorkLife Law

Credentials

Education
Cornell Law School, JD
Cornell University, BS

Admissions
New York
New Jersey

Courts / Agencies
Supreme Court of the United States
US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

US District Court for the Southern District of New York
US District Court for the Eastern District of New York
US District Court for the District of New Jersey

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