Our Attorneys
Jack Raisner
Mr. Raisner received his B.S. degree from Boston University in 1978 and his J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1983.
Mr. Raisner authored the Pregnancy Discrimination and Parental Leave Handbook (2000), as well as many chapters, and articles on employment topics. He is a Professor of Law at the Tobin College of Business, St. John’s University.
Rene’ S. Roupinian
Rene’ S. Roupinian is a founding partner of Raisner Roupinian LLP in New York. Ms. Roupinian has litigated federal and state WARN class actions nationwide since 2002.
She has recovered, through settlement or judgment, more than $200 million for tens of thousands of terminated employees. A vast majority of her cases are initiated in bankruptcy court where WARN claims generally enjoy priority status.
Ms. Roupinian is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York, the Western District of New York, the Eastern District of Michigan, the Western District of Michigan, and District of Colorado; the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the Third Circuit, the Fifth Circuit, the Eighth Circuit; and the Ninth Circuit; and the Supreme Court of the United States where her victory in the Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corporation case set a new legal standard by strengthening how employees and other priority claimants must be treated during the bankruptcy process.
She is a frequent speaker at legal conferences on class actions in bankruptcy and the WARN Act and received her B.A. degree from University of Michigan and her J.D. from Michigan State University College of Law.
Gail Lin
Gail Lin is Of Counsel at Raisner Roupinian LLP. Ms. Lin has practiced employment law for over 15 years, representing employees in every federal circuit in the United States, including appellate and bankruptcy courts. She has helped tens of thousands of employees in various industries, including technology, medical services, mortgage banking, legal services, manufacturing, transportation, mining, customer support, retail, and education.
Ms. Lin has overseen cases involving whistleblower claims, gender harassment, disability discrimination, plant shutdowns, workplace retaliation, breach of employment contracts, tort claims, restrictive covenants, and ERISA litigation. She has represented individual employees, groups of employees in class actions, pension funds and health and welfare funds in cases before the U.S. bankruptcy, trial, and appellate courts, resulting in substantial recoveries for her clients. She is admitted to practice in California, New Jersey, and New York.
Before joining Raisner Roupinian, Ms. Lin was an associate at other employment law firms, where she represented employees and employers in labor and employment matters.
Gail is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.
Isaac Raisner
Isaac Raisner is an Associate at Raisner Roupinian LLP and has been advocating for employees for more than a decade, with experience representing individuals and groups across a wide range of employment matters in federal district, bankruptcy and appellate courts.
In 2014 Isaac joined a legal aid organization in Georgia where he represented migrant and domestic farmworkers across the state in collective cases under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Title VII, and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act.
Subsequently, he worked at a premier plaintiff’s employment firm, successfully representing employees in federal discrimination, whistleblower, and unpaid wage claims. He has also worked in the New York and Philadelphia regional offices of the U.S. Department of Labor.
Isaac is a member of the Georgia and New York State Bars. He received his BA in Economics in 2011 from City University of New York (CUNY) Queens College, and his JD in 2014 from New York University School of Law, where he served as staff editor for the school’s Moot Court Board.
