Partner Naomi Shatz focuses on students' rights, university discipline, and employee rights. She represents students at all levels of education from elementary school through graduate school, as well as teachers and professors involved in discrimination cases and disciplinary proceedings regarding claims of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and academic misconduct. Naomi also advises and represents individuals in employment matters and criminal cases.
Naomi has been selected to the Rising Stars list by Super Lawyers each year since 2016. In 2018, Naomi was named an Up & Coming Lawyer by Massachusetts Law Weekly.
Prior to joining Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP, Naomi was a Skadden Fellow and a staff attorney with the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). Naomi represented one of the first students in the country alleging discrimination by his school for ignoring his complaints of harassment by other students based on a failure to conform to gender stereotypes. Naomi helped her client secure a settlement wherein the school district not only compensated the student but agreed to overhaul its policies and practices for preventing and addressing harassment of students. She also represented New York City public school students in a class-action suit challenging police practices in the schools.
At Yale Law School Naomi was a managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, an editor of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, and chair of Law Students for Reproductive Justice. She helped found the school’s Domestic Violence Clinic, where she represented survivors of domestic violence in family law matters.
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Education Law
- Massachusetts
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- New York
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- 1st Circuit
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- 2nd Circuit
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- U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
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- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
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- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
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- English
- Partner
- Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP
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- Law Clerk to the Hon. Ralph D. Gants
- Hon. Raymond S. Wilkins, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
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- Fellow & Staff Attorney
- New York Civil Liberties Union Skadden
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- Skadden Fellow
- Legal Momentum
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- Law Student Intern
- Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic
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- Supervising Student, Law Student Intern
- Community Lawyering Clinic/Domestic Violence Clinic
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- Legal Intern
- Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit, University of Cape Town
- Yale Law School
- J.D. (2008)
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- Barnard College
- B.A. (2004)
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- Up and Coming Lawyers
- Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
- Rising Star
- Super Lawyers
- 2016, 2017, 2018
- Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association
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- Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts
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- Legal Network for Gender Equity
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- Boston Bar Association
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- MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS
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- Naomi R. Shatz, Comment, Unconstitutional Entanglements: The Religious Right, the Federal Government, and Abstinence Education in the Schools, 19 Yale J. L. & Feminism 495 (2008)
- Abstinence Education in Public Schools, Culture Shocks Radio Show
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- Is the Death Penalty Off the Table for Women?, Huffington Post Live Segment
- 2013
- Sexual Assault on Campus, Frank J. Murray American Inn of Court
- 2014
- Sexual Assault on College Campuses, BUTV segment: On that Point
- 2015
- Sexual Assault on College Campuses, Meeting held by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
- 2017
