Our Attorneys
Our staff of nationwide WARN Act attorneys has decades of experience litigating state and federal WARN Act class actions in United States Bankruptcy Courts, United States District Courts, and the United States Supreme Court.
Jack Raisner
Jack A. Raisner is a founding partner at Raisner Roupinian LLP in New York.
Mr. Raisner has litigated to victory in the U.S. Supreme Court the claims on behalf of a 2,000-member class of employees in Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corporation. The Court’s decision stopped employers from using a practice in bankruptcy to avoid paying their employees’ earned wages and strengthened the rights of all priority creditors. The WARN practice attorneys were named “Bankruptcy Practice Group of the Year” by Law360, in recognition of the landmark ruling.
Practicing employment law since 1991, he prosecutes WARN Act and wage and hour class actions nationwide, has represented individuals in a wide range of discrimination and wrongful discharge claims, and has argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Second, Third, Fifth, and Sixth Circuits.
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.
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.
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 dollars 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, a nationwide WARN Act attorney, is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Western Districts of New York, the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, and District of Colorado; the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Circuits; 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 on the WARN Act and class actions in bankruptcy. She received her B.A. degree from University of Michigan and her J.D. from Michigan State University College of Law, where she was a member of the Moot Court Executive Board and the College of Law’s alumni board. Ms. Roupinian recently endowed a multi-year program that boosts students’ readiness for the bar exam while preparing the next generation of leaders for a successful career in the law.
Gail Lin
Gail Lin is Of Counsel to Raisner Roupinian LLP and a nationally recognized WARN Act attorney with more than 15 years of experience representing employees in employment law matters across every federal circuit in the United States, including appellate and bankruptcy courts.
Over the course of her career, Ms. Lin has advocated for tens of thousands of laid-off workers across a wide range of industries, including technology, healthcare, mortgage banking, legal services, manufacturing, transportation, mining, customer support, retail, and education. She has been involved in litigating significant WARN Act cases before the Second, Third, and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal, including landmark decisions involving claims against bankrupt employers.
Before joining Raisner Roupinian, Ms. Lin practiced at prominent employment law firms, representing both employees and employers in a broad range of labor and employment matters, including whistleblower claims, gender harassment, disability discrimination, and workplace retaliation. She also handled complex litigation involving breach of employment contracts, tort claims, restrictive covenants, and ERISA disputes.
Gail is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She is admitted to practice in California, New Jersey, and New York.
Isaac Raisner
Isaac Raisner is a partner at Raisner Roupinian LLP and has been advocating for employees for more than a decade. As a nationwide WARN Act attorney, he has 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 is admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, and Sixth Circuits.
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.
