His work spans day-to-day counseling and high-exposure disputes: discrimination and harassment matters; wage-and-hour and pay-equity issues; privacy and restrictive covenants; and diversity initiatives. Darrell designs and delivers management training that touches upon internal investigations, leave laws, sexual-harassment prevention, and performance management. Likewise, he builds personnel policies that meet statutory requirements and reflect sound practice. Darrell also litigates multi-party and media-sensitive matters before agencies and in state and federal courts and has handled investigations by the New York Attorney General.
On traditional labor matters, Darrell manages union and pre-union environments, handles NLRB unfair-labor-practice charges and representation petitions, negotiates neutrality agreements and elections, leads labor arbitrations, and serves as chief negotiator in collective bargaining. Boards frequently retain him for sensitive internal investigations, including C-suite inquiries, and to address protected concerted activity.
Darrell’s perspective is informed by public-sector and leadership roles: New York State Civil Service Commissioner; Director of Labor Relations/Labor Counsel at Metropolitan Hospital; and attorney with the NLRB (Region 2). In private practice, he has been a partner at global firms (including leading a U.S. practice group) and ran a New York boutique.
A long-time industry leader, Darrell helped found the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, is a past chair and founding board member of the National Employment Law Council, serves as General Counsel to the New York Real Estate Chamber, helped merge the Harlem Lawyers Association and Bedford Stuyvesant Lawyers Association into the Metropolitan Black Bar Association, is a Fellow of both the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and the American Bar Foundation, belongs to the ABA and the NYC Bar, and serves on the board of Coro New York.
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