Neil Getnick Delivers Remarks at NY Law Journal Legal Awards Dinner
On September 5, Getnick Law’s Managing Partner Neil Getnick spoke at the New York Law Journal’s annual New York Legal Awards Dinner, which honors attorneys who have “made a remarkable difference in the legal profession in New York.” Neil was selected as an individual finalist for the 2024 Innovation Awards, which recognizes innovative efforts by individual lawyers and legal professionals.
In his remarks, Neil reflected on Getnick Law’s “guiding principle that good conduct is good business,” and noted that building a practice based on “the right cases, for the right clients, with the right colleagues” has enabled the practice of law to be a “consistent source of joy” for him.
Neil received his individual Innovation Awards nomination in connection with his work to produce an historic collective bargaining agreement for the Chateau Marmont Hotel, which was vital to the hotel’s ongoing success and embraced by both management and labor. Neil has explained that to achieve this end,
We needed to overcome the cynicism of those who do not believe in win:win solutions or that good conduct is good business. We did that by revealing our shared commitment to social and economic justice and by explaining that we didn’t want to just tolerate, or even accept, the workers and their union-supported efforts, but rather embrace them, emerging demonstrably committed to those shared values backed by concrete actions.
As a result of this approach, “[t]he negotiations that followed took on an unusually positive tone” and had an equally positive result.
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