Schwartz & Perry LLP

What Schwartz & Perry LLP does

Schwartz Perry & Heller LLP is a New York City-based plaintiff-side employment law firm operating as a Limited Liability Partnership under New York law. Founded circa 1949 and headquartered at 3 Park Avenue, Suite 2700 in Manhattan, the firm exclusively represents individual employees in workplace disputes, with practice areas spanning employment discrimination (age, gender, race, national origin, religion, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation), sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, FMLA and FLSA wage claims, whistleblower claims, severance negotiations, and EEOC proceedings, plus mediation and arbitration. Its brand is anchored by 75+ years of continuous practice, with the firm noting that its casework has shaped the foundation of New York labor law and is cited in contemporary court rulings.

The firm operates without external institutional investment or private equity backing and is owned and governed by its named partners. The active team is small — approximately six individuals across legal, management, and operations roles — led by Managing Partner Davida S. Perry, with Name Partner Brian Heller (promoted November 2016), Firm Manager Ronald S. Solow, Litigation Associate Analiese Smith, and Office Manager Victoria Borrero, alongside an In Memoriam entry for founding-era partner Murray Schwartz. The firm holds AV Preeminent ratings from Martindale-Hubbell, multiple Super Lawyers listings, Million Dollar Advocates Forum membership, a 10.0 Avvo rating, and Legal Leaders and Women Leaders in the Law recognitions; Davida S. Perry has been named to City & State's Law Power 100 (2023) and a Top 100 Most Powerful People in Law list (2020).

The business model is professional services fee-for-engagement, with no proprietary technology platform. GTM is sales-led via free initial consultations, direct client engagement, referrals, and a content marketing engine comprising an educational blog active since 2007 and a video center. The firm does not disclose revenue, pricing schedules, or financials; revenue is presumed to derive from contingency fees and hourly billing across a long tail of individual case engagements. There are no disclosed funding rounds, subsidiaries, parent entities, M&A activity, partnerships, or integrations, and no AI/ML capabilities or technology products are in scope.

Name

Schwartz & Perry LLP

Legal name

Schwartz Perry & Heller LLP

Website

https://schwartzandperry.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1949

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Schwartz Perry & Heller LLP is a New York City plaintiff-side employment law firm representing individual employees in discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage, FMLA, and whistleblower matters, operating as a small partner-owned boutique since circa 1949.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Employment Law Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Employment & Labor Law (BPAHAAAD)

Keywords

• Employment law services
• Workplace discrimination representation
• Sexual harassment attorneys
• Wrongful termination claims
• Wage and hour disputes

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Legal Representation Fees: The firm provides legal representation for employment discrimination cases. Initial consultation is free of charge. Fee structures likely include contingency fees (common in plaintiff employment law) or hourly billing depending on case type.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Schwartz & Perry LLP (doing business as Schwartz Perry & Heller LLP) is a New York City-based employment law firm representing individual employees in workplace disputes. The firm provides plaintiff-side legal representation across discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour, FMLA, whistleblower, and reasonable accommodation matters, along with EEOC proceedings, mediation, arbitration, severance negotiation, and appellate work.

Product overview

Schwartz Perry & Heller LLP is a single-firm New York employment law practice offering comprehensive legal services exclusively to employees. The firm provides representation across all major employment law practice areas including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage violations, FMLA claims, and whistleblower protections. The firm also offers alternative dispute resolution services through mediation and arbitration, and handles EEOC proceedings. The practice operates as a unified legal services firm rather than a modular software product or platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Employment Discrimination Representation Plaintiff-side legal representation for employees who have experienced workplace discrimination based on age, gender, national origin, race, sexual orientation, pregnancy, religion, disability, or marital status.
• Sexual Harassment Representation

Quantifiable outcome

• Groundbreaking results and substantial jury awards
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, P.C. Major U.S. labor and employment law firm serving management. Overlaps with Schwartz Perry & Heller on practice category and federal employment statutes, though positioned on the opposing client side.
• Jackson Lewis P.C. One of the largest U.S. employment law firms, predominantly representing management/employers. Operates in the same legal category at national scale; relevant as a category incumbent even though defense-side.
• Littler Mendelson P.C. Largest U.S. employment and labor law firm, employer-side. Broad incumbent in the same practice area with extensive resources, relevant for benchmarking scale, brand, and category dynamics.

Direct peers

• HKM Employment Attorneys LLP: Boutique plaintiff-side employment law firm handling discrimination, harassment, and wage cases. Comparable in practice composition, contingency economics, and target clientele of individual employees.
• Outten & Golden LLP: Premier New York-based law firm representing employees and executives in discrimination, harassment, and wage cases. Directly comparable in mission (plaintiff-side employment), practice breadth, and NYC market positioning.
• Nichols Kaster, PLLP: Plaintiff-side employment law firm representing employees in class and individual actions (FLSA, discrimination, whistleblower). Comparable in business model (contingency) and plaintiff-only mandate.
• Wigdor LLP: NYC plaintiff-side employment law firm focused on workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, and whistleblower matters. Comparable in target client (individual employees), contingency model, and high-profile advocacy orientation.
• Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP: Employee-side employment law firm with deep whistleblower and discrimination practice. Comparable in contingency-fee model, plaintiff-only focus, and case-vault-driven thought leadership, though based in Washington, D.C.
• Phillips & Associates, PLLC: Boutique NYC employment discrimination firm representing employees in harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination claims. Closely matches Schwartz Perry & Heller's plaintiff-only, single-city, single-category positioning.
• The Derek Smith Law Firm, PLLC: NYC plaintiff-side employment and sexual harassment firm with similar practice areas (discrimination, FMLA, wage & hour) and direct overlap in target client base across the New York metro.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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