B.A. , Political Science

B.A. , Political Science

JD , Public Law

JD , Public Law

The managing partner of The Nirenberg Law Firm, LLC, Jonathan I. Nirenberg has dedicated his career to representing employees in discrimination, civil rights, and employment law cases in New Jersey and New York since he graduated from Cornell Law School.

As an experienced employment lawyer, Mr. Nirenberg has extensive experience in writing and arguing appeals.  He has participated in numerous landmark decisions, including Zive v. Stanley Roberts, Inc., Myers v. AT&T, Padilla v. Berkeley Educational Services of New Jersey, Inc., Brennan v. Norton, and Muller v. Exxon Research and Engineering.

Prior to founding The Nirenberg Law Firm, Mr. Nirenberg was a founding partner of Resnick & Nirenberg, P.C., and a Partner of Deutsch Resnick, P.A. before that.  Mr. Nirenberg writes articles about important employment law issues and developments for his blog, the New York & New Jersey Employment Law Blog.  He is also the author of the articles When Does the Employer Have the Burden of Proof? (New Jersey Law Journal, March 17, 2008), Are Some Employees Entitled to More than 12 Weeks of Pregnancy Leave Under State and Federal Law (New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly, Spring 2002) and When Is an Employer's Failure to Provide Notice of FMLA Rights or Designate FMLA Leave Actionable? (New Jersey Law Journal, March 29, 2004).

Mr. Nirenberg is a member of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms, an organization of highly credentialed boutique law firms that have been hand selected as outstanding in their respective fields of law, as well as the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and the National Employment Lawyers Association of New Jersey (NELA-NJ).