Rapaport Law Firm

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. His practice focuses on employment discrimination, commercial litigation, telecommunications issues, and domestic relations. 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 discrimination, sexual harassment, unpaid wage, 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. He has effectively represented groups of employees in overtime and unpaid wage claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act and NY Labor Law.

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. Marc has negotiated hundreds of rooftop and cellular antenna leases, inside wiring agreements, and antenna tower agreements. Each year, Marc obtains Yellowstone injunctions and other types of court orders that protect the rooftop leaseholds of wireless carriers in New York City.

Marc represents the nation’s largest telecommunications carriers in administrative proceedings regarding compliance with state and local regulations. He has handled hundreds of administrative hearings with the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) that involve complex issues regarding compliance of rooftop antenna facilities with the NYC Fire and Building Codes. With decades of experience, Marc is uniquely able to provide our firm’s telecommunications and real estate clients with effective and creative approaches to New York’s complex web of administrative procedures and regulations.

Marc Rapaport was selected as a 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2023 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.

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., June 1992
New York University, B.A., 1989