Marc A. Rapaport
Founder and Managing Member, Rapaport Law Firm, PLLC
Employment, defamation and commercial litigation in New York courts.
Email: [email protected]
212-382-1600
Marc Rapaport is the founder and Managing Member of Rapaport Law Firm, PLLC. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, he is a graduate of New York University and Georgetown University Law Center. Marc began his legal career as an attorney with the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Marc’s practice focuses on New York defamation, employment discrimination, unpaid overtime claims, commercial litigation, and telecommunications issues. He takes professional pride in the diversity of his clientele and the wide array of civil litigation matters that he handles.
Marc has successfully litigated New York overtime claims, discrimination, sexual harassment, FMLA, ADA, and wrongful termination disputes on behalf of both employees and employers. His widely reported success in the case Mena v. Key Food is now the leading legal precedent in jurisdictions throughout the United States regarding the legality of clandestine taping in the workplace. Marc has effectively represented groups of employees in overtime and unpaid wage claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act and NY Labor Law. Marc takes particular professional pride in having effectively represented hundreds of New York building superintendents in class actions for unpaid overtime and related wage claims under the New York Labor Law. Marc has broken barriers, and set new law, to ensure that superintendents and porters in New York receive the same overtime and wage protections as other workers. Marc also represents executives and other highly compensated workers in disputes relating to bonus and severance compensation.
For the past fourteen years, Marc has served as New York counsel for the nation’s second-largest telecommunications carrier. He has extensive experience handling commercial disputes involving telecommunications leases. The nation’s largest telecommunications carriers rely on Marc to protect their rooftop cell sites when they are threatened with invalid eviction threats and other forms of unlawful interference with their crucial communications facilities.
Marc has handled hundreds of administrative hearings with the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH). These proceedings often involve complex issues regarding compliance of rooftop antenna facilities with the NYC Fire and Building Codes. With decades of experience, Marc provides our firm’s telecommunications and real estate clients with effective and creative approaches to New York City’s complex web of administrative procedures and regulations.
Marc Rapaport was selected as a 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024 New York Metro Super Lawyer. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only 5 percent of all lawyers in the State of New York receive this honor.
Recent Victories
Pinell and Shell v. Target Stores, Inc. (N.Y. Sup. Ct., N.Y. County, 2025)
Rapaport Law Firm successfully opposed Target’s motion to dismiss claims arising from an alleged racial-profiling incident, including claims for defamation and civil-rights violations. The Court’s decision preserved the defamation claims and allowed the action to proceed past the pleading stage. This ruling is a meaningful step forward in litigation involving alleged discriminatory conduct, where early dispositive motions are common and where the consequences for affected individuals and communities can be profound.
Andujar v. SKYC Management, November 15, 2024
Federal Court in Manhattan has Granted Preliminary Certification of a Collective Action for Residential Superintendents
We represent residential superintendents employed by SKYC Management (also known as Greisman Realty) at thirty-nine apartment buildings located throughout Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. The superintendents allege that SKYC Management and its owner, Shimon Greisman, deprived them of overtime wages (one and a half times their regular rates of pay) for hours worked over 40 each week. Defendants are repeat offenders of the Fair Labor Standards Act, having settled an overtime lawsuit brought by other New York superintendents nearly a decade ago. In October 2023, Rapaport Law Firm filed the current superintendents’ overtime lawsuit. On November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York approved our request for conditional certification of a collective action. On July 11, 2025, the District Court approved a settlement in the amount of $1,050,000.
Liz v. 5 Tellers Associates, (E.D.N.Y., April 1, 2021)
The Federal Court approved Rapaport Law Firm’s request for conditional certification of a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act on behalf of superintendents and porters working at apartment buildings in the Bronx. This victory led to a substantial settlement that provided compensation to Rapaport Law Firm’s clients for unpaid overtime and minimum wages.
Campos v. Aegis Realty Mgmt. Corp., (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 28, 2020)
Our client is a building maintenance worker who was deprived overtime pay that he was entitled to receive under the Fair Labor Standards Act and New York Labor Law. The defendant, his former employer, is a notorious New York City slumlord. In a groundbreaking decision, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied defendant’s motion to dismiss our client’s complaint. Defendant argued that our client’s wage claims were barred by a third-party release contained in the building owner’s confirmed bankruptcy plan. The Court ruled in favor of our client, holding that there are factual issues regarding whether the release language encompassed wage claims against joint employers.
T-Mobile Northeast LLC v. 133 Second Avenue, LLC, April 16, 2019
After court proceedings that spanned ten years, New York’s Appellate Division (First Department) ruled in favor of Rapaport Law Firm’s client, T-Mobile. In 2009, the defendant/landlord blocked T-Mobile’s personnel from accessing T-Mobile’s rooftop antenna facility located in the East Village of Manhattan. The Appellate Division upheld the lower court’s permanent injunction against the defendant.
SBA Monarch v. Hirakis, April 9, 2019
After two years of litigation, the defendant filed a third party complaint alleging that Rapaport Law Firm’s client, a telecommunications carrier, was responsible for damaging the defendant’s commercial building. The Queens County Supreme Court dismissed the defendant’s third party complaint. In its decision, the Court held that the defendant failed to follow New York pleading requirements and further ruled that the complaint did not make valid claims for indemnification.
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., June 1992
- New York University, B.A., 1989
Bar Admission
- New York and New Jersey
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
- Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Affiliations
- New York County Lawyers’ Association
- New York State Bar Association (Member, Committee on Civil Practice Law and Rules)
- The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- Federal Communications Bar Association
- Putnam County Home Improvement Board (2000–2002)
- Member, Board of Directors, The Tent Theater Company