A team is only as good as its front line. At L&N, our practice is scaled deliberately so that there is no second tier; every attorney on staff is a seasoned legal professional with experience and smarts to represent clients on all employment-related matters and benefit issues. With every case, L&N’s legal team provides a full compliment of capabilities to counsel, represent and negotiate for clients in court, mediations and arbitrations.
Richard Neuworth is a dedicated employment and employee benefit lawyer with more than 25 years of practice in representing individual employees. His extensive experience in such legal issues ranges from employee benefits and discrimination to harassment, workers compensation and social security disability cases. In 1997, Richard co-founded L&N after practicing with several small law firms that represented individual employees.
Richard is a graduate of George Washington University (with special honors in political science) and from the University of Baltimore Law School. He also is the author of several articles in the field of employee benefits and on the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. A sought-after speaker, he lectures on the topics of age and disability discrimination as well as employee benefits.
Stephen Lebau was been engaged in the practice of employment law for more than 20 years and was recently named as one of Maryland’s top labor lawyers. He co-founded L&N in 1997 with Richard Neuworth, after working for one of Maryland’s largest defense firms representing companies and management.
As an advocate for the individual, Steve has represented employees in executive negotiations, tort and contract claims, wage-hour matters, and discrimination and harassment cases. In addition, he regularly provides advice and counsel to his clients on employment agreement and separation packages.
Steve graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the George Washington University with highest honors and distinction, and from the Georgetown Law School with honors. He has worked for two U.S. Senators, and has testified before the Commissioners of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on alternative dispute resolution. Steve is a frequent speaker on employment and labor law issues. He also has authored numerous articles in the field of employment law.
Michael Melick represents L&N clients in various employment matters including wage-hour issues, discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and Family Medical Leave Act cases. Michael also serves clients in employee retirement benefit cases.
Michael graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia and is a cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law. He is a member of the bar in the State of Maryland and in the U. S. District Court for the District of Maryland. While in law school, Michael worked for two semesters as a teaching assistant in a first-year legal writing and research course. He also spent a summer working for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, where he wrote a federal appellate brief to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. His efforts resulted in the reversal of an unfavorable damages award against hundreds of workers at an automobile parts manufacturing company in Milwaukee.
Prior to law school, Michael served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco, where he did work in health education and sanitation at a small village in the northern Sahara. Upon his return to the U.S., he worked as an ESOL teacher in Baltimore’s public schools for four years.
Lucy Hirsch is an L&N attorney who represents clients in a wide-range of employment matters. She has experience in significant wage-hour litigation and representing victims of discrimination and harassment.
Since college, Lucy has focused on public interest activities, assisting in underserved communities and volunteering with advocacy organizations. She has taught multi-level English as a Second Language at a community college. Lucy was the Alumni Chair of the Maryland Public Interest Law Project in her last year of law school. During law school, Lucy earned relief for a client seeking asylum and received a Leadership in Public Service award for her commitment to the public interest legal community. She interned for the Department of Justice’s Executive Office of Immigration Review and for a U.S. Senator where she assisted in the drafting of a federal statute aimed at increasing access to civil legal services. Most recently and before joining L&N, LLC, Lucy was a law clerk to the Honorable Gale E. Rasin of the Baltimore City Circuit Court.
Lucy is a graduate of Haverford College and the University Of Maryland School Of Law. She has a working knowledge of Spanish and Hebrew.
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