Cindy, a three-sport collegiate athlete, and her husband, a former golf pro, enjoy playing sports with their not-surprisingly athletically-inclined children.
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Cynthia L. Flanagan co-chairs Schenck Price's Labor and Employment Practice Group and represents corporations, government entities and individuals in various matters involving employment law and general business counseling. As a management-side attorney, Cynthia advises business managers on day-to-day employment law issues, personnel management and workforce structure, compensation, termination and leave issues. Cynthia also assists businesses with risk management reviews and she provides general business counseling, structuring entities, business governance, and assists business in acquiring, developing, leasing, repositioning, managing, financing and disposing of real estate.
In addition to serving the firm’s business clients, Cynthia has extensive experience representing hospitals, healthcare entities, physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals in a variety of matters including professional malpractice, breach of contract, managed care contract and claims issues, and policies and procedures. She also represents businesses and individuals in matters involving fraud, insurance coverage, and defense of governmental entities.
In addition, Cynthia contributes her experience to writing articles for publications including New Jersey Lawyer Magazine and New Jersey Law Journal. Topics have included insurance fraud and construction lien law revisions.
She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s (NJSBA) Construction Law Section and also chairs NJSBA’s Diversity Committee.
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- Sep 21, 2021Employment Issues Related to COVID and the 'Return to the Workplace'
- May 20, 2020CLM Workers Compensation and Retail, Restaurant & Hospitality Conference
- Dec 12, 2019New Jersey Employment Law Update
- Dec 12, 2019The Society for Human Resource Management – Morris County Chapter, Inc. (SHRM)
- Sep 24, 2019You Can't Outrun the Long Arm of the Law: New Jersey Fall 2019 Legal Update
- Apr 25, 2019SHRM Breakfast Briefing
- Nov 1, 2018Morris County SHRM Fall Legal Breakfast: Employment Law Issues for Small Businesses
- Sep 28, 2018New Equal Pay and Paid Sick Leave Laws are Potential Minefields of Liability for Employers
- Jul 25, 2018Employers Beware! New Equal Pay and Paid Sick leave Laws are Potential Minefields of Liability for Employers
- Feb 8, 2018Threading the Needle: Best Practices for Protecting the Franchiser's Brand While Mitigating Risk From EPL Claims
- Nov 2, 2017Top Civil Cases in 2016-2017
- Aug 31, 2018Deadlines Are Approaching for Employers to Comply With New York's New Sweeping Sexual Harassment Training and Protection Laws
- May 4, 2018Recent Legislative Enactments Expand Benefits & Liability for New Jersey Employers
- Mar 7, 2017Facebook's New Job Posting Feature Presents Opportunities and Risks for Businesses
- Nov 23, 2016Employers Granted Reprieve from New Overtime Regulations
- Aug 4, 2022FDU Mini Law School
- Jun 23, 2022Schenck Price Welcomes New York Law School Alumni Association
- Jun 13, 2022Flanagan Elected to FDU Alumni Association Board of Governors
- Oct 19, 2020Schenck Price Sponsors FDU Pre-Law and Legal Studies Externship
- Sep 10, 2020COVID-19 Leave Policies and Return to Work Issues
- Jun 16, 2020Appellate Win for Cranford in Complex Discrimination Case
- Jul 26, 2018Employers Beware!
- Jul 25, 2018Employers Beware! New Equal Pay and Paid Sick Leave Laws are Potential Minefields of Liability for Employers
- May 8, 2018Three-Week Trial Ends in Victory for Municipality
- Nov 2, 2017Maddaloni Joins Labor & Employment Law Practice
- Jun 27, 2017Legal Updates for Businesses - June 2017
- Oct 27, 2014Defending Trucking and Commercial Auto Claims and Large Losses
- Aug 14, 2014SPSK'S Appellate Practice Group Obtains Dismissal of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Case and Third Circuit Affirms
- June 13, 2023Pushed to the Limit - Are There Any Theories of Liability that LAD Will Not Permit?
- Oct 25, 2021Key Considerations for Employers in Reopening the Workplace
- Mar 20, 2018Salary History Ban Laws Aim to Close Gender Pay Gaps
- Dec 11, 2014What's in a Name?, U.S. Supreme Court Defines "Supervisor"
- Mar 1, 2012New Jersey Courts' Liberal Intepretation of Consumer Fraud Act Claims Also Governs the Courts' Review of Attorneys' Fees Claims Under the Act
- Jan 31, 2011New Construction Lien Law Revisions Clarify Residential Lien Procedures
- Oct 1, 2008The Basics of Insurance Fraud
- July 10, 2023Legal Updates for Businesses - July 2023
- February 23, 2023Legal Updates for Businesses - February 2023
- Oct 25, 2021Legal Updates for Businesses - October 2021
- Sep 20, 2019Legal Updates for Businesses - September 2019
- Feb 25, 2019Legal Updates for Businesses - February 2019
- Jun 26, 2017Legal Updates for Businesses - June 2017
- Apr 1, 2009The Benchmark Spring
- Oct 1, 2008The Basics of Insurance Fraud
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- Selected to the New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Stars®* list, published by Thomson Reuters, in the field of General Litigation
- Repeatedly selected to the New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Stars®* list, published by Thomson Reuters, in the field of Employment & Labor
- Selected to Morris County's Top Lawyers list (2018-2024)
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- Author, "Pushed to the Limit: Are There Any Theories of Liability that LAD Will Not Permit?'" June 13, 2023
- Author, "Key Considerations for Employers in Reopening the Workplace," October 25, 2021
- Contributing author, Legal Updates for Businesses, October 2021
- Co-presenter, "Employment Issues Related to COVID and the 'Return to the Workplace,'" Bergen County Professional Women's Network, September 21, 2021
- Speaker, "Whose Employee is it? Borrowed Servant, Agency, and Vicarious Liability Dangers," CLE Compensation and Retail, Restaurant & Conference, Chicago, May 20, 2020
- Contributing author, September 2019 Legal Updates for Business
- Presenter, "New Jersey Employment Law Update," December 12, 2019
- Speaker, New jersey Association of Legal Administrators 26th Annual Business Partner Exposition, September 24, 2019
- Presenter, “Employment Law Issues for Small Businesses,” Morris County Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management, April 25, 2019
- Contributing author, February 2019 Legal Updates for Businesses
- Presenter, "New Equal Pay and Paid Sick Leave Laws are Potential Minefields of Liability for Employers," Big I New Jersey, the New Jersey Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers Association, September 28, 2018
- Speaker, "Employers Beware! New Equal Pay and Paid Sick Leave Laws are Potential Minefields of Liability for Employers," July 25, 2018
- Author, "Salary History Ban Laws Aim to Close Gender Pay Gaps," March 20, 2018
- Panelist, "Threading the Needle: Best Practices for Protecting the Franchiser's Brand while Mitigating Risk from EPL Claims," 2018 CLM & Business Insurance Retail, Restaurant & Hospitality Conference, Febrary 8, 2018
- Panelist, "Top Civil Cases in 2016-2017," Morris County Bar Association's Legalpalooza, November 2, 2017
- Contributing author, June 2017 Legal Updates for Businesses
- Co-Author, "What's in a Name?, U.S. Supreme Court Defines "Supervisor", New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, December 2014
- Co-Author, “New Jersey Courts’ Liberal Interpretation of Consumer Fraud Act Claims Also Governs the Courts’ Review of Attorneys’ Fees Claims Under the Act,” New Jersey Lawyer, February 2012
- Co-Author, Facebook’s New Job Posting Feature Presents Opportunities and Risks for Businesses
- Co-Author, “New Construction Lien Law Revisions Clarify Residential Lien Procedures,” which discusses revisions to the lien law in the context of residential construction, New Jersey Law Journal, January 2011
- Co-Author, “The Basics of Insurance Fraud,” New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, 2008
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- Member, Fairleigh Dickinson University Board of Governors
- Member, Garden Academy Board of Directors (2019-2022)
- Garden Academy Board of Directors
- Board of Trustees of the Mendham Township Library Association
- Morris County Chamber of Commerce, Human Resource & Talent Committee
- Society for Human Resources Management, Morris County Chapter
- The New Jersey Business & Industry Association
- Claims and Litigation Management Alliance
- District XA Ethics Committee (2014-2018)
- The Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court
- New Jersey State Bar Association
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- Successfully defended the Township of Little Falls against an employee’s whistleblower complaint in the matter of Whiteside v. The Township of Little Falls, PAS-L-1511-14. The case was unique in that throughout the litigation and throughout the trial, the Plaintiff remained employed by the Township. The employee’s demand before trial was more than $500,000. After a three-week jury trial, the jury rendered a defense verdict.
- Negotiated favorable executive severance packages for several executives following their complaints of harassment against their international employer
- Represented a large manufacturing company against a former employee’s claims of disability and sex discrimination. After obtaining a settlement for nuisance value, we filed a third-party complaint against the company’s insurance broker for failing to procure EPL insurance. Obtained a settlement from the insurance broker that reimbursed the company for fees and costs of litigation
- Successfully defended the New Jersey Department of Corrections and various employees against a Correction Officer’s claims of discrimination, harassment, and constitutional violations in the matter of Goodall-Gaillard v. New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al., Civ. No. 2:09-00954. After five years of litigation, obtained summary judgment on behalf of the entity and the defendant employees
- Conducted a large-scale investigation for a mid-size corporation in response to employee harassment complaints
- Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a municipal fire department against a volunteer firefighter’s claims of discrimination and violations of the Conscientious Employee Protection Act
- Represented a pharmaceutical company in an Order to Show Cause action against a former employee who violated several restrictive covenants in his employment agreement and obtained a favorable settlement for the company
