Josef Nussbaum

Josef Nussbaum joined Joseph & Kirschenbaum in 2011 and became a partner in 2020. Josef focuses his practice on wage and hour class and collective actions, including minimum wage, overtime, and tip theft claims, as well as claims for untimely payment of wages.

Josef is a successful trial attorney who has several successful major trials under his belt. His results at trial include recently obtaining a more than $5 million verdict against two restaurants after a class action trial on behalf of tipped employees and winning a judgment of more than $1.1 million for ten restaurant employees with wage theft and tip theft claim.

Josef handles scores of wage and hour class-action litigations, often resulting in large seven-digit settlements. In addition, Josef regularly represents individuals pursuing wage and hour claims and/or discrimination/whistleblower claims with great success.

Before joining Joseph & Kirschenbaum, Josef served in the office of the legal counsel for the National Bank of Canada.

• $8.4 million settlement for a class of delivery drivers who were paid biweekly instead of weekly
• $7.5 million settlement for a group of delivery drivers who were classified as independent contractors and were not paid an overtime premium
• $4.75 million settlement for class of banquet servers with claims for unpaid service charge
• $2 million settlement for a class of tipped employees with wage and hour claims at one New York City restaurant
• $295,000 settlement for employee with sexual orientation and retaliation claims