Sidney L. Gold

Sidney L. Gold & Associates, P.C.
Principal Shareholder
SGold@DiscrimLaw.net
215-569-1999
215-569-3870

Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2, 1951

Education: Pennsylvania State University, B.A., 1972, Temple University, J.D., 1975

Practice Areas: Employment Law (Employer & Employee); Employment Discrimination; Employer Liability; Sexual Harassment; Wrongful Termination; Race Discrimination; Sex Discrimination; Religious Discrimination; Pregnancy Discrimination; Whistleblower Litigation; Family and Medical Leave Act; Restrictive Covenants; Wage and Hour Law; Overtime Claims; Severance Packages; Contract Law; Litigation

Membership: Philadelphia Bar Association (Co-Chair, Labor and Employment Law Committee; Member, Professional Guidance; Federal Courts); National Employment Lawyers Association (Vice Chairman); Pennsylvania Bar Employment Law Institute (Faculty Member).

Admissions: 1975, Pennsylvania; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third and Fourth Circuits; 1998, U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

Biography:

Mr. Gold is the principal shareholder of the Philadelphia law firm of Sidney L. Gold & Associates, P.C. in Philadelphia, which has been recognized by the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register as a preeminent law firm in the field of employment law and civil rights litigation. His practice, as well as that of the law firm, is exclusively concentrated in the representation of both employees and employers in all aspects of employment related litigation, including claims under federal and state anti-discrimination laws and federal civil rights laws.

He has extensive experience counseling employers regarding compliance with Title VII, the ADA, and the ADEA and FMLA. Mr. Gold has significant experience in representing both private sector and public sector employers, including state universities and municipalities in employment and civil rights matters. His law firm was lead counsel in the nationwide class action against Abercrombie & Fitch.

He has written extensively on issues of employment discrimination and has authored many articles for the Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly. Mr. Gold has also given presentations on employment law to the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

He serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has also served as Vice Chair of the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association. Mr. Gold has also been appointed Co-Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. In addition, he is a member of the Professional Guidance Committee, the Federal Courts Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Labor and Employment Law Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

Mr. Gold is a 1975 graduate of Temple University School of Law. Before entering private practice, Mr. Gold served as an Assistant City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia in its Major Trial Division. He has litigated complex cases before courts throughout the United States, and has been admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Third and Fourth Circuits and the United States Supreme Court.