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As a senior associate attorney with Blackstone Law, Zachary Gershman represents employees in representative and class action lawsuits focusing on wage theft, employee misclassification, and other employment issues. He has been successful in achieving summary judgment, class certification, FLSA collective certification, and winning at trial.
Mr. Gershman also has significant appellate experience, with multiple published decisions. Most recently, in Mondragon v. Sunrun, Inc., in which the Court of Appeals held that merely incorporating the AAA Employment rules in an arbitration agreement does not strip a court of its ability to determine whether an arbitration agreement is enforceable.
He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Gershman served as an Executive Senior Editor for the Southern California Law Review.
Prior to law school, Mr. Gershman graduated summa cum laude from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. In college, he was a research assistant to Professor Matthew Singer and co-authored an article published in the Journal of Electoral Studies regarding international constitutional law titled Do Changes In District Magnitude Affect Electoral Fragmentation? Evidence Over Time at the District Level.