Rene S. Roupinian

RENÉ S. ROUPINIAN is a Partner of the firm and Co-Chair of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Practice Group, and a member of the firm’s Class Action Practice Group.

For over fifteen years, Ms. Roupinian has devoted her practice to the litigation of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act cases, representing tens of thousands of employees who were terminated without sufficient notice in violation of federal and state WARN laws. The firm’s WARN practice is national and its WARN cases have and continue to cover a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, transportation, retail, mining, mortgage and manufacturing. A majority of the cases Ms. Roupinian litigates are initiated as class actions and are frequently filed in bankruptcy court as adversary proceedings.

In 2017, the firm’s WARN Act Practice Group won a landmark United States Supreme Court decision on behalf of 1,800 terminated truck drivers. Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp., 137 S. Ct. 973, 977, 197 L. Ed. 2d 398 (2017). The decision has been hailed as one of the top ten most important decisions in bankruptcy law and prompted Law360 to name WARN Practice Group Bankruptcy Group of the Year.

Ms. Roupinian has lectured on the WARN Act and the prosecution of WARN claims as class actions in bankruptcy court. She has been quoted on WARN law rights and her cases have been cited in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, American Lawyer, Associated Press, USA Today, Forbes, Newsday, Times-Gazette, The Herald News, and others.

Ms. Roupinian received her BA from the University of Michigan, and her JD from Michigan State University College of Law where she was a member of the Moot Court Executive Board.

Michigan State University

1994

WARN Act Protects Laid off Employees of Companies in Bankruptcy

O&G Employment Law Blog

August 31, 2016

Fair Warning For Workers

Trial

August, 2010

A Practitioner's Overview of the Deficiencies of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Twenty Years Following its Enactment

NELA, The New York Employee Advocate

June, 2008

Super Lawyer 2014-2019

Super Lawyers

2019

New York Metro Super Lawyer Top Women 2015-2019

Super Lawyer

2019

Bankruptcy Practice Group of the Year

Law 360

2017

MSU College of Law Alumni Board

Member

Current

New York City Bar Association

Member

Current

National Employment Lawyers Association

Member

Current

Armenian-American Bar Association

Member

Current

American Bankruptcy Institute

Member

Current

Michigan

State Bar of Michigan

Since 1995

New York

Since 2003

• WARN Class Action Lawsuits