Kraft Employment Law Group PLLC

Hon. Ruth B. Kraft is an employment and labor attorney.  She advises business organizations on all aspects of employment law, including wage and hour disputes, employee misclassification, employment policies and procedures, terminations, and compliance with federal and state law.  Her practice is comprehensive, covering business strategy as well as litigation before the federal and state courts as well as regulatory bodies.

Ruth began her career as a tax and real estate associate in “big law” prior to joining the law faculty of New York University, where she pioneered interdisciplinary graduate and professional programs.  She was recognized for excellent in the teaching of law, the then pioneering field of business ethics, and medicine with the Great Teachers Award as well as a multitude of research grants.  She has maintained her specialized interest in healthcare organizations throughout her career.  After a long career on the bench, with particular emphasis on labor and employment law, she resumed private practice in 2013, rising to the partnership ranks of two distinguished firms.

Judge Kraft holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from Queens College where she was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded a New York City Urban Fellowship.  She is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where she studied under the pre-eminent luminaries of 20^th century jurisprudence.  Her doctoral dissertation is in the permanent collection of the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University and forms part of the seminal canon of research in the field of healthcare law.  Additionally, she holds certification in Alternative Dispute Resolution from Harvard Law School.  She is admitted to practice before the courts of the State of New York, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York as well as the District of Colorado, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.

Judge Kraft has lectured on employment law and corporate social responsibility to academic, business and professional groups throughout the United States and abroad.  She is a past president and member of the executive committee of the New York State Association of Administrative Law Judiciary.  She is vice-president of Yashar-the Judges, Lawyers and Professional Women’s Chapter of Hadassah, secretary of the Jewish Lawyers Association of Nassau County and a director of the Women’s Bar Association of Nassau County. The Center for Ethics in Business has honored her for over twenty years as a chief judge of the International Business Ethics Case Competition. 

Capping an illustrious carrier, she has been honored as a Power Woman and Icon of Long Island as well as a Top Lawyer on Long Island. She is a very active member of her law school class, co-chairing the reunion committee and devoting herself to mentoring the next generation of Yale Law students.