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Robert P. Lewis

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Rob is a Partner in Baker McKenzie’s Employment and Compensation Practice Group, residing in New York, where he has practiced for decades. Rob represents foreign, domestic and multinational employers and management, including those in financial, luxury retail goods and services, and healthcare industries, in connection with the entire panoply of employment issues arising under U.S. and foreign law. Rob regularly defends employers in litigation, arbitration and other modes of alternative dispute resolution. Rob is a member and former co-chair of the New York State Bar Association's Subcommittee on International Employment and Labor Law and the American Bar Association's International Law Section. Rob has been recognized in New York Super Lawyers annually since 2006 for Labor and Employment Law, in Who’s Who in American Law, 2011-2019; and as a recommended lawyer for Litigation and for Workforce & Employment Counseling in Legal 500. Rob is the former co-chair of Baker McKenzie's New York office's Pro Bono Committee and has led ground breaking global pro bono projects relating to global poverty, international human rights and anti-terrorism legal initiatives. Rob received the 2014 Jeremy G. Epstein Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service from the New York City Bar Association's City Bar Justice Center.
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United States: Governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut Issue Executive Orders Mandating Statewide Restrictions Due to COVID-19

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New York On March 20, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued Executive Order 202.8 (“NY EO 202.8”), effective as of 8 pm on March 22, 2020, which requires all non-essential businesses to reduce their in-person workforce by 100% through April 19. NY EO 202.8 is an integral part of…