Jon L. Norinsberg is a Founding Partner of Joseph & Norinsberg LLC and one of the most formidable employment and civil rights trial attorneys in New York. For more than 30 years, he has stood between workers and the employers who violate their rights—taking on cases that other firms decline, against adversaries that most attorneys would not face, and delivering results that have secured more than $100 million in verdicts and settlements for employees, individuals, and families. His clients have included workers at small businesses, major financial institutions, national corporations, and some of the most prominent employers in the country, including Delta Air Lines.
Jon’s employment practice spans the full spectrum of workplace claims—discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, pregnancy, and sexual orientation; sexual harassment and hostile work environment; whistleblower retaliation; wage theft; wrongful termination; and executive compensation disputes. He represents clients at every level, from hourly workers denied overtime to senior executives whose careers have been destroyed by institutional misconduct. His recent high-profile work includes representing Teresa Hudson Jordan, a Black first-class passenger removed from Delta Flight 5792 in 2025 after a white flight attendant objected to the way she looked at her. Jon called the case a stark example of the ongoing reality that “even in 2025, Black Americans continue to endure the indignity of ‘Flying While Black’”—a case that drew national coverage from The Independent, Atlanta Black Star, and outlets across the country.
Jon didn’t just practice New York City trial law—he helped define it. Before founding his own firm, he joined the New York City Law Department, where he became one of the City’s top trial attorneys and received national recognition for his courtroom results. He co-authored the Law Department’s Trial Notebook and built the City’s trial training program—tools that continue to shape how New York litigators are trained today. Mastering the system from the inside gave him an unmatched understanding of how powerful adversaries think and operate. He has spent the last three decades using that knowledge against them. That track record includes more than 200 cases tried to verdict—a level of courtroom experience that places him in a category occupied by very few litigators in the country.
Among his most significant victories, Jon secured a $7.4 million verdict in a fabricated evidence case that six other firms had declined—a ten-year battle that reached the doorstep of the United States Supreme Court, established new precedent in the Second Circuit, and was recognized by the New York Law Journal as one of the top government verdicts in New York State. His results span employment discrimination, civil rights, constitutional law, and police misconduct, consistently delivering outcomes in cases that many attorneys would not take on.
Jon co-founded Joseph & Norinsberg LLC in 2014 with Bennitta L. Joseph to build a firm around a single conviction: that workers and individuals deserve the same quality of legal firepower that corporations and government institutions take for granted. That conviction has never changed. His work has been featured on the front page of the New York Law Journal, he has been nominated by the Trial Lawyers Board of Regents for special recognition as a top litigator, and he has been selected to Super Lawyers for eleven consecutive years. The opponents have gotten bigger. The conviction hasn’t.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1991, finishing at the top of his class, and began his career at Proskauer Rose before joining the New York City Law Department.
