Jeffrey K. Brown

Mr. Brown is a graduate of SUNY Albany and Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University (J.D.) and is the managing partner of Leeds Brown Law. Since his admission to the New York State Bar in 1997, Mr. Brown has served as lead counsel in hundreds of class actions and individual cases for unpaid wages, overtime and tips, sexual harassment and employment discrimination in the New York City Metropolitan area, which have generated millions of dollars for LBL’s Clients. Recently, Mr. Brown, along with Michael A. Tompkins and Anthony M. Alesandro, served as lead counsel and negotiator in the resolution of a wage and hour lawsuit for prevailing wage and manual labors for $15 million in Kellogg v. WSP USA, Inc., Index No. 605552/2024 (Sup. Ct. Nassau Cty. Aug. 1, 2024)(Doc. 26)(granting approval of class settlement). Additionally, Mr. Brown has served as counsel on various consumer protection cases that have been resolved through settlement. See e.g., Swetz v. The Clorox Company, Case No. 7:22-cv-09374-PMH (S.D.N.Y. May 22, 2024) (Dkt. 56) (granting final approval of class action settlement of $5.6 million for purchasers of cleaning products); Kessler v. The Quaker Oats Company, Case No. 7:24-cv-00526-KMK (S.D.N.Y. March 13, 2025) (Dkt. 34) (granted preliminary approval of class action settlement of $6.7 million).

Notably, Mr. Brown served as lead counsel in a real estate discrimination case, Board of Managers of Vista Tower Condominium v. Roosevelt Avenue Associates, in which the Firm recovered approximately $19 million on behalf of 135 Asian condominium owners in Flushing, Queens. In other actions, Mr. Brown has been recognized for his work. See e.g., Colabufo v. CNA Financial Corp., 04-CV-1863(BMC) (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 2009) (“We’re obviously dealing with high-end lawyers in this case … It seems like they gave their all to this. It seems like it would be an overstatement to say ‘sweat blood,’ but it sounds to me like there was a lot of sweating involved on both sides in this and the plaintiffs, no question, earned their fee in this … You can’t argue to that unless you point to some specific infirmity in counsel’s performance and there is no suggestion of that here … [P]laintiffs’ law firms … appeared to have done an excellent job in this, so I don’t have any question about the adequacy of representation of the class.”). Additionally, Mr. Brown has served as lead counsel on class action cases pertaining to unpaid wages and unpaid gratuities which have resolved themselves. See e.g., Kolb v. Bankers Conseco Life Insurance Company, Index No. 0005116/2013 (Sup. Ct. Nassau Cty. Oct. 29, 2015)(approving class settlement of $4.5 million); Chavarria v. Crest Hollow Country Club at Woodbury, Inc., Index No. 017464/2011 (Sup. Ct. Nassau Cty. Dec. 13, 2013)(granting final approval of class settlement on behalf of service workers); Parada v. Westbury Manor Enterprises Inc, Index No. 601125/2011 (Sup. Ct. Nassau Cty. June 27, 2014)(Doc. 67)( granting final approval of class settlement on behalf of service workers); Toledo v. DCJ Catering Corp. Index No. 600994/2011 (Sup. Ct. Nassau Cty. Dec. 21, 2012) (Doc. 43)( granting final approval of class settlement on behalf of service workers).