Attorney Profiles

Lawyers with extensive federal labor and employment law experience are counsel to the Wal-Mart janitors.

Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP ("CWS")
For 60 years, CWS has advanced the interests of workers and their unions. CWS lawyers have extensive experience in complex federal litigation nationwide. James L. Linsey, the lead CWS lawyer, together with his partner, Thomas N. Ciantra, who head the CWS team here, earlier this year successfully completed 8 years of wage and hour litigation against the Pepsi Bottling Group for the hundreds of employees they represented. This case resulted in a recovery of close to $30 million in back pay, fines and penalties.¹

Garcia and Kricko
Garcia and Kricko is a two lawyer husband and wife firm located in Hackensack, New Jersey. The firms practice is concentrated in commercial litigation and real estate. Garcia and Kricko was formed in 1991.

Gilberto M. Garcia was admitted to the bar of the State of New Jersey in 1987. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Law. He was an adjunct law professor at Seton Hall Law School in 1990-1991, where he headed the immigration law department at the Center for Social Justice of the law school. He argued, along with Keith Talbot of Legal Services of New Jersey, the case of Brambila v. Board of Review before the Supreme Court of New Jersey in 1990, which granted aliens with work permits the right to receive unemployment compensation. He was lead counsel, with law students from the clinic, in a class action lawsuit entitled Diaz v. INS, filed in federal court in 1990, on behalf of aliens seeking asylum from Salvador and Croatia. He has also litigated federal and state RICO claims on behalf of class members in the matter of Rolo v. City Investing, in federal court in New Jersey. Gilberto Garcia and Mary Ann Kricko were also the first individual practitioners to receive the Equal Justice medal for their unprecedented pro bono work on behalf of low income people in the State of New Jersey.

Mary Ann Kricko was admitted to the bar of the State of New Jersey and the District of Columbia in 1990. She is a graduate of Seton Hall Law School where she was managing editor of the schools Law Review. She worked during her career in pro bono matters representing parents and children in parental termination cases. She also concentrated on domestic relations law. At the present time, she concentrates her practice on real estate matters.

¹ Results of particular cases may vary substantially according to facts and law applicable to each case.