Mr. Estreicher is Dwight D. Opperman Professor of  Law at New York University School of Law and Director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law and the Institute of Judicial Administration.  He has published several books including leading casebooks in labor law and employment discrimination and employment law; edited conference volumes on sexual harassment, employment ADR processes, and cross-global human resources; and authored over 100 articles in professional and academic journals.  He is a former Secretary of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association, a former chair of the Committee on Labor and Employment Law of the Association of the Bar for the City of New York, and chief reporter of the Restatement of Employment Law, sponsored by the American Law Institute. He has delivered named lectureships at UCLA, Chicago-Kent, Case Western  and Cleveland State law schools.  Mr. Estreicher also testified twice before Secretary of Labor Reich's and Secretary of Commerce Brown's Commission on the Future of U.S. Worker-Management Relations.  He has run over 100 workshops for  federal and state judges,  U.S. Department of Labor lawyers,  EEOC lawyers, court law clerks, employment mediators and practitioners generally. He has received numerous awards including the Labor and Employment Relations Association’s prestigious 2010 Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award.  The UN Secretary-General appointed him to a four-year term for the UN’s Internal Justice Council.

In 1975, Mr. Estreicher obtained his law degree from Columbia University, where he was editor-in-chief of Columbia Law Review. He graduated in 1974 from Cornell University with his master's degree and was a Herbert H. Lehman Fellow.  At Columbia College, he received his bachelor's degree in 1970 as a Joseph Pulitzer Fund Scholar.  During 1977, Mr. Estreicher clerked for the late Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the Supreme Court and the late Harold Leventhal of the 

US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  He is admitted to practice in New York. 

Samuel Estreicher has been of counsel in the labor and employment and appellate practice groups at leading law firms, including Morgan Lewis and Jones Day.  He has advised major companies in the design and implementation of their ADR programs and responses inquiries from shareholder groups and regulatory agencies.