Snider & Associates

James Fuchs, Esq.

Associate Attorney
Phone: (410) 653-9060
Fax: (410) 653-9061
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James L. Fuchs is currently a senior associate attorney at Snider & Associates, LLC, which he joined in 2007. He has settled numerous cases successfully for the firm, and, in the past year, he won the two cases that went to a hearing. In one case, Boss v. HUD, there was a finding of reprisal, and, in the other, Sayles v. GSA, there was a finding of a hostile work environment. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Fuchs litigated in commercial, employment discrimination, libel, and insurance actions. He has also counseled other attorneys on ethical issues both as a volunteer for the New York Ethics Hot Line and as a CLE lecturer at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is a member of the Bar Association of Baltimore City as well as of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He had been a member of the Association's Professional Responsibility Committee, Professional and Judicial Ethics Committee, and Professional Disciplinary Committee. As a member of the Professional Responsibility Committee, he chaired a subcommittee that drafted an amicus brief for the Association concerning the disqualification of a law firm, and he has had both trial and appellate experience in the New York state courts. He has also assisted at trial in New York Federal courts.

Mr. Fuchs has been a fellow at Yale University, the John Carter Brown Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His musical review, "Kal v'Homer," was performed at the Jerusalem Plaza (now the Sheraton). He has run three New York marathons, as well as the New Mexico Merathon. He has given papers on historical topics all over the United States, as well as in France, Holland, and Israel. He speaks Italian, French, and Hebrew.

Areas of Practice
Employment law - Employee
Labor law
Arbitration
EEOC and MSPB hearings
Employee Discipline
Overtime violations
Wage and Hour violations
Fair Labor Standards Act
Disability discrimination
Reasonable Accommodation
Sexual Harassment
Gender discrimination
Age discrimination
Race Discrimination
National Origin Discrimination
Religious Discrimination
Religious Accommodation discrimination
Litigation and Appeals
Government Agencies

Bar Admissions
New York (1996)
Massachusetts (1996)
Illinois (1997)
District of Columbia (1997)
Maryland (2008)
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1996)
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1996)
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (2007)
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2008)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2009)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2009)
U.S. District Court for the Fourth Circuit (2010)

Education and Honors
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, NY
LL.M. 2003
CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY, Cleveland, OH
J.D., 1995
Honors: Law Review: Contributing Editor (1994-95); Associate (1993-94); Dean's List, 1995.

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, IL
Ph.D., M.A., with Honors, A.B.

Honors
University of Chicago Overseas Fellowship; Pierce Scholar; H. Shaw Scholar

Professional Associations and Memberships
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Bar Association of Baltimore City

Publications
"A Seville Standard for Aiders and Abettors: The Logic and Implications of the Supreme Court's Decision in Central Bank v. First Interstate Bank," Case Western Reserve Law Review, Spring, 1995.

Mr. Fuchs has also published articles on historical topics in Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, The Journal of Religious History, Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies, and Koroth.