Shawn Clark’s practice at Faruqi and Faruqi, LLP is focused on employment litigation. Shawn represents workers in all aspects of high-impact employment litigation in federal and state courts. Shawn has litigated cases involving FLSA claims, state wage and hour violations, discrimination and harassment, retaliation, FMLA and ADA violations, breach of contract, and other employment-related violations. He has frequently appeared as first and second chair in bench and jury trials in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and has successfully recovered millions of dollars on behalf of his clients.
Prior to joining Faruqi & Faruqi, Shawn worked as an attorney at a number of prominent New York firms representing employees in employment matters. Immediately following law school, Shawn began his legal career at the New York City Police Department and New York City Law Department as a legal fellow and Assistant Corporation Counsel.
Shawn has been designated a Super Lawyers Rising Star each year since 2015 and has been selected for inclusion to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. An active member of the legal community, Shawn is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association/New York and the Federal Bar Council.
Shawn earned his J.D. in 2010 from New York University School of Law, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and an Articles Editor for the Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. Shawn graduated magna cum laude from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Religion.
Shawn is licensed to practice law in New York and is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York as well as the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
