Experience.
Enhanced by Intelligence.
Clients don’t hire lawyers for information — they hire lawyers for judgment. For more than 30 years, David Cassidy has combined experienced counsel with modern tools to deliver smarter, faster, more cost-effective solutions.
Years of legal & labor experience
Bars admitted — NJ, PA & NY
Years of traditional labor law practice
Sides represented — employers & employees
Information has never been more accessible. Technology can summarize a case in seconds — but it cannot replace experience, judgment, and strategy. Technology provides information. Experience provides solutions.
Not just litigators
We are problem solvers — combining legal counsel with HR consulting, labor relations, and business strategy.
Solve it early
The most expensive disputes are preventable. We help clients act before a problem reaches a courtroom.
Smarter & faster
Experienced judgment, enhanced by technology, means more efficient and cost-effective outcomes.
Thirty years of judgment — on both sides of the table.
David Cassidy has represented employers, employees, executives, and organizations facing important decisions for more than 30 years. A Founding Partner of Vlasac & Cassidy and previously Of Counsel to Vlasac & Shmaruk, he spent roughly a decade practicing traditional labor law at a nationally recognized firm — collective bargaining, arbitrations, grievances, and NLRB proceedings.
A different kind
of law firm.
One firm across the full lifecycle of workplace and business issues — counsel, consulting, training, and litigation.
Labor & Employment
Both sides of the table — discrimination, retaliation, wage & hour, and workplace litigation.
Labor Law & Unions
Management-side: collective bargaining, arbitrations, grievances, and NLRB proceedings.
Employer Services
Counseling, investigations, handbooks, compliance audits, and litigation defense.
Employee Representation
Discrimination, harassment, whistleblower claims, wrongful termination, and severance.
Small Business Counsel
Outside general counsel — business advice, contracts, HR support, and risk management.
HR Consulting
Handbooks, audits, performance systems, and policy development for in-house teams.
Workplace Training
Harassment prevention, management and leadership development, customized programs.
Personal Injury
Strategic litigation relationships and referral partnerships for injured clients.
Hockey Family Services
Player & tender agreements, transfers, NCAA eligibility, and family consultation.
Hockey Family Legal Services
Junior and player agreements, tender and billet contracts, transfers, NCAA eligibility, and immigration coordination — counsel for coaches, organizations, players, and families across every level of the sport.
AI, Layoffs & Workplace Rights
As employers adopt new technology and restructure, the rules are shifting. We advise on reductions in force, severance, and the rights of executives and employees in a changing workplace.
Articles & Resources
Practical updates on labor law, employment rights, HR, and the business of hockey.
Severance Agreements: What Executives Should Negotiate
The terms that matter most when you’re handed a separation package — and the ones worth pushing back on.
A Manager’s Field Guide to NLRB Proceedings
What employers need to understand about union activity, unfair labor practice charges, and bargaining.
Wage & Hour Compliance Before It Becomes a Class Action
The misclassification and overtime mistakes that quietly turn into the most expensive litigation.
Workplace Justice
Starts Here.
Whether you’re an employer seeking counsel or an individual facing an important decision, the first conversation is the most valuable one.
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
201·247·4058