Bar Admissions:
New York 1999, Pennsylvania 2010, Southern District of New York, 2011, Eastern District of New York 2011

Law School: Temple University, J.D., 1997

College: Howard University, B.A. Administration of Justice, 1994

Practice Areas:Labor and Employment; Discrimination; Age Discrimination; Employee Discipline; Employee Rights; Employment Law; Affirmative Action; Age Discrimination in Employment; Civil Service; Collective Bargaining; Child Labor Law; Confidentiality Agreements; Covenants Not To Compete; Employee Drug Testing; Employee Leasing; Employee Privacy; Employer Intentional Torts; Employer Liability; Employer Rights; Employment Arbitration; Employment at Will; Employment Breach of Contract; Employment Civil Rights; Employment Claims; Employment Class Actions; Employment Contracts; Employment Defense; Employment Disability Discrimination; Employment Discrimination; Employment Litigation; Employment Mediation; Employment Practices Liability Insurance; Employment Rights; Employment Termination; Equal Employment Opportunity Law; Executive Employment Law; Executive Severance Contracts; Executive Transfers; Fair Employment Practices; Fair Labor Standards; Family and Medical Leave Act; Federal Employment Law; Harassment; International Employment Contracts; International Labor Law; Labor Antitrust; Labor Arbitration; Labor Law; Labor Legislation; Labor Relations; Labor Strikes; Management Employment Law; Management Labor Law; National Labor Relations Act; National Origin Discrimination; Negligent Hiring; Noncompete Litigation; Noncompetition and Non-Solicitation Agreements; Outsourcing; Personnel Policies; Personnel Training; Prevailing Wage Litigation; Public Sector Collective Bargaining; Public Sector Employment Law; Public Sector Labor Relations; Reductions in Force; Restrictive Covenants; Retaliatory Discharge; Security Clearances; Sexual Harassment; Title VII Discrimination; Unfair Labor Practices; Uniformed Services Employment; and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA); Union Contract Negotiations; Union Elections; Union Labor Law; Union Organization; Wage and Hour Law; WARN Act; Whistleblower Litigation; Workplace Violence; Wrongful Termination; Wrongful Termination Defense.

Personal Background: Bennitta, a former Law School National Team Trial Champion, began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney with the New York County District Attorney’s office, where she personally tried over a dozen cases to verdict and sustained a high conviction rate. After leaving the office she focused on litigating a variety of civil cases with a primary concentration in civil rights cases. 

She brings a substantial breadth of knowledge and an uncommon passion for trial work that leads to winning substantial verdicts for her clients. Within less than a month of joining our firm, Bennitta along with her co-counsel Alex Coleman sustained a hard fought verdict against the New York City Housing Authority based on a violation of the Plaintiff’s first Amendment rights. 

Bennitta was born in Brooklyn, raised in Canada and currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband and son. 

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