Susan L. Swatski is counsel in the Princeton, N.J. office of  Hill Wallack LLP. She is a member of the firm’s General Litigation, Employment Law and Product Liability practice groups

Representative Matters

• Represents and counsels developers/sponsors, homeowner associations and lending institutions in defending and prosecuting construction defect disputes
• Represents and counsels a range of clients such as nursing staffing agencies, nursing homes and technology companies in employee termination notice requirements and wage and hour disputes with the New Jersey Division of Wage and Hour Compliance
• Counsels employers and employees on a full range of issues at every level from personal claims of discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge, defamation and invasion of privacy to corporate disputes with employees over employment contracts, non-compete clauses, non-disclosures and confidentiality agreements and other restrictive covenants
• Manages large scale electronic discovery cases and advises corporate clients on creating records retention programs and electronic discovery plans, including the selection of outside forensic computer specialists
• Experience litigating employment, commercial, products liability and insurance disputes before New York and New Jersey State and Federal courts, the United States Equal Opportunity Commission and the New York City Commission on Human Rights

Publications, Presentations

• Presenter, Successful Women Connecting Seminar Series:
  • Best Practices for Hiring Minors, Interns and Volunteers, March 2012
  • Simple and Efficient Strategies for Addressing Human Resources in a Growing Business, July 2011
• Interviewed by WDVR, The Many Faces of Life, regarding issues in employment law, September 2011
• Co-Author, Finding a Needle in an Electronic Haystack: The Science of Search and Retrieval, published in ABA Mass Torts, Fall/Winter 2009
• Co-Author, Whose Space? Discovery of Social Networking Websites, published in Product Liability Law & Strategy, June 2008
• Co-Author, Think Twice, Click Once: E-mail Guidelines, published in Product Liability Law & Strategy, March 2006
• Co-Author, Practice Pointers Regarding Product Liability, published in Records Retention Critical Considerations Surrounding Records Management, Association of Corporate Counsel, October 2005
• Contributing author to Hill Wallack LLPs Employment Client Alerts:
  • Employees May be Able to Use Employers’ Confidential Records to Prove a Workplace Discrimination Claim, July 2011
  • United States Supreme Court Broadens Scope of Title VII to Include Third-Party Retaliation Claims, April 2011

Ms. Swatski also presents seminars regarding anti-discrimination and harassment in the workplace and general human resource management.

Leadership

• Member, Princeton Chamber of Commerce
• Member, Board of Trustees of the Princeton Greens Homeowners Association
• Member, Litigation Section, New Jersey State Bar Association 
• Volunteer, Mercer County Dress for Success
• Volunteer, Rhett Syndrome Research Foundation
• Active Member, Trinity Episcopal Church in Princeton

Ms. Swatski is admitted to practice in the states of New Jersey (2002), New York (2003) and in the United States District Court of New Jersey (2002), the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2003), and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2003). Prior to joining Hill Wallack LLP, Ms. Swatski served as Deputy Press Secretary to United States Senator Arlen Specter and was the Manager of Government Affairs for the Shipbuilders Council of America. She received her J.D. from Seton Hall School of Law and her B.A. cum laude from Susquehanna University.