Benjamin P. Hollander

Ben Hollander joined the firm in September 2024.  Prior to joining the firm, he clerked for the Honorable Kimba M. Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. 

Mr. Hollander graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law in 2023, with a specialization in Public Interest Law and Policy and Critical Race Studies.   During law school, Mr. Hollander was a co-chair of both the Labor and Employment Law Association, and the Labor and Economic Justice Clinic.  He also participated in the Immigrant Family Legal Clinic and the Law, Organizing and Low-Wage Workers practicum with UNITE HERE Local 11, and he was a staff editor for the Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture, and Resistance.  Mr. Hollander authored a paper titled It’s the Same Story the Crow Told Me: Uber’s Invocation of Newness as an Old Employer Tactic, which was awarded a second-place designation in the 2023 Louis Jackson Memorial National Student Writing Competition.  Publication of the piece is forthcoming in the ABA J. Lab. & Emp. L.  He worked his law school summers with the labor law firms Bush Gottlieb and Cohen Weiss and Simon, and with the California Teachers' Association.  

Before law school, Mr. Hollander worked as an organizer for UNITE HERE Local 25, where he supported union members in their efforts to build workplace democracy and power, and he worked on campaigns which successfully organized thousands of nonunion employees through NLRB and card-check campaigns.  Mr. Hollander graduated from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 2016.  As an undergraduate, he conducted first contract research with Professor Kate Bronfenbrenner. 

He is admitted to practice in New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.