Ari Taragin, Esq.

Associate Attorney
Phone: (410) 653-9060
Fax: (410) 653-9061

Ari Taragin is currently a senior associate attorney at the firm. Mr. Taragin joined Snider & Associates, LLC (formerly Snider & Fischer, LLC) in 2003. Prior to joining Snider & Associates, Mr. Taragin served as a law clerk to the Honorable Mary C. Jacobson of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Civil Division. While performing his clerkship, Mr. Taragin also completed training as a state certified mediator and mediated pre-trial cases on a regular basis.

His practice includes all aspects of employment law, including Federal and private sector EEO Complaints, Federal Arbitrations, employee discipline, employment contracts, and wage and hour disputes. He has successfully represented hundreds of employees in these and other employment matters, resulting in millions of dollars in settlements, recovered back-pay, and other benefits.

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
Maryland (2003)
District of Columbia (2010)
United States Supreme Court (2007)
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2004)
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (2004)
U.S. Court of Federal Claims (2010)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (2005)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2005)
U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit (2006)

Education and Honors
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, J.D. (June 2002)
Journal- Communications Law in Transition Newsletter, Staff Member, 2001-2002
Howard M. Squadron Program in Media Law & Society, Telecommunications Externship, Fall 2000
Yeshiva College, Silver Spring, Maryland, B.A. (1998 with High Honors)

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association
Maryland Bar Association
Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association
Society of Federal Labor Relations Professionals

Recent Representative Cases

Williams v. Department of Veteran Affairs, 257 Fed.Appx. 648, 2007 WL 4284665, (Not Selected for publication in the Federal Reporter), C.A.4 (Md.), December 07, 2007 (NO. 06-2043)
Smith v. Department of Transportation, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 06-3064 (2007). 
Demmitt v. Department of the Army, Appeal No. 0120083138 (EEOC Office of Federal Operations, 2008)
Slater v. Department of Homeland Security, SF-0752-06-0805-A-1 (Merit Systems Protection Board 2008)
American Federation of Government Employees, Local No. 3972 v. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development , FMCS No. 06-52736 (2008)
American Federation of Government Employees, AFGE Local 32 v. United States Government Office of Personnel Management, (2008)
American Federation of Government Employees, AFGE Local 2419 v. United States Department of Health and Human Services (NIH), FMCS Case No. 08-0716-57893-1 (2010)
National Federation of Federal Employees, NFFE Local 273 v. Department of Army (Fort Sill) FMCS No. 08-51132 (2009)
American Federation of Government Employees, AFGE Local 1770 v. Department of Army (Fort Bragg) AFGE-FB-EVP-090589.VG
(2010)