Mr. Sheridan has represented individuals, closely held and family businesses, and multi-national clients for more than twenty years concerning commercial litigation and employment discrimination claims, restrictive covenants, deferred compensation plans, reductions in force, negotiation of severance agreements, and executive compensation issues. He has litigated claims under the FLSA, ADEA, ADA, Title VII, NYSHRL, NYCHRL, and New York Labor Law in state and federal trial and appellate courts. Mr. Sheridan has frequently appeared in FINRA and AAA arbitrations on behalf of securities industry professionals regarding unpaid bonuses, promissory notes, and contractual disputes.
Mr. Sheridan also has extensive litigation experience representing corporate clients and commercial property owners and general contractors on risk transfer and liability issues involving commercial leases and construction contracts.
Mr. Sheridan is a panel mediator for the Supreme Court, Westchester County Commercial Division and Civil Panels, and Westchester County and Bronx County Surrogate’s Court Panels, and an employment discrimination panel mediator for the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Mr. Sheridan co-authored the 9th Judicial District Presumptive Mediation Program Rules and the Westchester County Surrogate’s Court Presumptive Mediation Program. Mr. Sheridan is also a Board Member for Attorneys for Family-Held Enterprises (AFHE) and a Member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors for the Westchester County Bar Association. Mr. Sheridan is a former Chair of the Westchester County Bar ADR Committee, and a member of the New York State Bar Association ADR Section.
Mr. Sheridan continues to be involved in various CLE presentations on employment law and ADR topics, including conducting trainings for mediators on mediating personal injury matters and trust and estate disputes. He actively mediates disputes involving partnerships, employment, civil rights, personal injury, medical malpractice, construction cases, family business, and trust and estates, among others.
In 2022, Mr. Sheridan conducted three Part 146-approved 24-hour Basic Mediation Trainings for over 60 participants within the 9th Judicial District. In 2023, Mr. Sheridan was approved to conduct a Part 146 Advanced Commercial Mediation training.
In addition to his litigation and mediation experience, over the last decade Mr. Sheridan has become a recognized leader in Civil Collaborative Practice. He is Co-Chair of the Trainers’ Networking and Practice Development Committee for the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP), and the Northeast Regional Director for the Global Collaborative Law Council (GCLC) and lectures and trains lawyers and other professionals on Civil Collaborative Practice. A listing of his Civil Collaborative Practice training experience is as follows:
In 2009, Mr. Sheridan was interviewed on CBS Internet radio on the benefits of Collaborative Law in the business and employment context. In October 2011, Mr. Sheridan lectured on utilizing ADR techniques in employment and business disputes for the New York State Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Section, and the IACP at its annual forum in San Francisco. In 2012, Mr. Sheridan founded the New York Civil Collaborative Group, and completed a CLE video webinar for lawyers through CPR on using Collaborative Law in employment disputes.
In May 2013, Mr. Sheridan was interviewed in Bloomberg BNA’s Human Resource Report and presented to the Dallas Bar Association’s Collaborative Law and Labor and Employment Law Sections on applying Collaborative Law to workplace disputes. In 2014, Mr. Sheridan lectured on the expansion of Collaborative Law to the Mid-Hudson Society for Human Resource Professionals, the Collaborative Law Association of Southern Pennsylvania (CLASP), the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Dispute Resolution Association (NYSDRA) and the Global Collaborative Law Council on the use of Collaborative Practice in Domestic and International Employment Disputes.
In 2015, Mr. Sheridan lectured again to NYSDRA on Civil Collaborative Practice, and conducted a multi-day training in Spanish to lawyers in Madrid and Santander, Spain on Civil Collaborative Practice. In 2016, he conducted a Civil Collaborative training in Tampa, a multi-day training for CLASP and addressed the European Collaborative Practice Conference (ENCP) in Amsterdam, Netherlands on the expansion of Collaborative Practice in the employment and commercial setting. In 2017, Mr. Sheridan presented on Collaborative Practice for family businesses at the annual AFHE conference in Miami, and in 2018 conducted a two-day advanced training at the annual GCLC conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2019, Mr. Sheridan presented to the Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations on Civil Collaborative Practice. In 2021, Mr. Sheridan presented to the ENCP Congress on Civil Collaborative Practice and conducted two online multi-day Civil Collaborative trainings to groups located in Canada. In 2022, Mr. Sheridan presented on family business and estate disputes as part of an advanced Civil Collaborative training for the GCLC conference at the University of Nebraska, and at the AFHE Annual meeting in Orlando, the North Carolina Civil Collaborative Association, and the Washington State Bar’s ADR Section.
In 2023, Mr. Sheridan will present at the GCLC’s Annual Meeting on using Civil Collaborative Practice to resolve a family business dispute, lecture on Civil Collaborative Practice to the Pennsylvania State Bar’s Collaborative Law Section and conduct a trainers’ workshop at the IACP’s annual forum in Toronto, Canada.
Areas Of Practice
Mediation
Securities Industry Employment Disputes
Employment Discrimination
Commercial Litigation
Collaborative Practice
Bar Admissions
New York
Connecticut
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
Education
Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York
J.D. - 1998
Union College, Schenectady, New York
B.A. - 1995
Honors: cum laude
Major: History and Spanish
Representative Cases
Kelly v. Evolution Markets, Inc., 626 F. Supp2d 364 (S.D.N.Y. 2009), Enforced a restrictive covenant on behalf of broker-dealer concerning a uranium broker's employment agreement, creating precedent for court interpretation of non-solicitation and non-competition agreements in New York.
Credit Suisse First Boston Corp v. Pitofsky, 4 N.Y.3d 149, 791 N.Y.S. 2d 489 (N.Y. 2005) , New York Court of Appeals decision regarding a dispute between the Form U-4 arbitration clause and a private arbitration forum selection clause in clients' employment agreements.
Cicconi v McGinn Smith & Co., Inc., 27 A.D. 3d 59 808 N.Y.S.2d 604 (1st Dep't 2005), Authored brief to the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, and provided a genesis argument on defamation cases in the securities industry that resulted in the lead dissenting judge reversing her fifteen-year old precedent.
Gibson v. Bally Total Fitness Corp. et al, 1 A.D.3d 477, 767 N.Y.S.2d 135 (2nd Dep't 2003)
Fraternities / Sororities
Phi Sigma Kappa