Overview
Frederick D. Braid represents management in the practice of labor and employment law, and leads Holland & Knight's New York practice group. Mr. Braid represents employers in the private sector in all aspects of labor relations and employment law, including counseling and litigation with respect to union organizing activity; collective bargaining and contract administration, including project labor agreements; grievance and interest arbitration; acquisitions, closures, relocations, restructuring and bankruptcy; occupational safety and health; employment discrimination and affirmative action compliance; whistleblowing; employment-related torts, including defamation, negligent hiring and retention; Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)/Multi-Employer Pension Plan Amendments Act (MEPPA) withdrawal liability, employment at will, employment agreements, restrictive covenants, trade secret confidentiality; wage and hour compliance; personnel practices; and employment policies.
Mr. Braid represents employers in virtually every industry ranging in size from small, closely held businesses to multinational corporations and multiemployer associations, both nonunion employers and employers who have established collective bargaining relationships. Such representations include employers subject to the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act.
Mr. Braid has published scholarly articles in journals for labor lawyers and is the original author on collective bargaining in the treatise, National Labor Relations Act: Law and Practice. He is also a contributing author to the American Bar Association's treatise, Occupational Safety and Health Law. Mr. Braid speaks on occasion to business groups, federal judges and at professional conferences.
In addition, Mr. Braid served as a member of the Advisory Board for New York University School of Law's Center for Labor and Employment Law for 25 years, and on the Board of Advisors for St. John's University School of Law's Center for Labor and Employment Law for more than 15 years.
Representative Experience
Credentials
- St. John's University School of Law, J.D., with highest honors
- New York University School of Law, LL.M., Labor Law
- St. John's University, College of Business Administration, B.S., Economics, with honors
- New York
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- All State Courts in New York
- American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section and its Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Law
- New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section
- The Best Lawyers in America guide, Employment Law - Management, Labor Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment, 2003-2025
- Chambers USA - America's Leading Business Lawyers guide, Labor & Employment, 2009-2021, 2023, 2024; Labor Relations, 2021-2024
- Guide to the World's Leading Labour and Employment Lawyers, Legal Media Group's Expert Guides, 2013-2015, 2019
- New York Super Lawyers magazine, 2007-2012, 2014-2021
- Corporate Counsel Edition, Super Lawyers magazine, November 2009
- Law Review, Managing Editor
- Who's Who in American Law
- Who's Who In America
- Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated