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Jordan Glassberg

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Jordan Glassberg is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department, and a member of the Class & Collective Actions, and Financial Services Groups.

Jordan represents employers in a broad array of matters before federal and state courts, FINRA and other arbitration panels, and administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Jordan represents employers in a wide variety of industries, with a particular focus on financial services, sports, and news and media clients. Jordan assists them with a wide range of employment matters involving employment discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims arising under Title VII and state and local equivalents, wage and hour claims, wrongful termination, and breach of contract.  Jordan has devoted much of his practice to defending nationwide class and collective action claims. Jordan also has experience conducting high-profile and sensitive investigations on behalf of employers.

Jordan also maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on assisting asylum seekers and disabled veterans.

Prior to joining Proskauer, Jordan clerked for the Honorable William H. Pauley III in the Southern District of New York. Before clerking, Jordan graduated from Duke Law School, where he was managing editor of the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy and a member of Duke’s Moot Court and Mock Trial Boards.

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On February 5, 2021, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) granted asylum to our client, a gay man who suffered horrific violence based on his sexual orientation.  For their own homophobic reasons, the police in his country of origin refused to investigate the hate crimes that were committed against him.   Fearing for his life, our client fled to the United States.  Now that he has received asylum, he can live and work in the United States indefinitely.

The modern asylum system grew out of a reaction to the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust.  In 1951, the United Nations defined a refugee as any individual not able to return to his or her home country because of a well-founded fear of future persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.  The United States later signed onto this system, and in the 1990s, officially recognized that persecution due to one’s sexual orientation can qualify as a basis for asylum.