Meet the Team
Jennie Woltz, Esq.
Jennie Woltz has made smart, compassionate, employment and labor law solutions the focus of her legal career.
Before co-founding WFPC, Jennie honed her legal expertise in private legal practice at some of New York’s most prestigious law firms. Jennie also worked in a dual legal and HR role at one of NYC’s largest children’s charities. Currently she advises clients in all areas of employment and labor law, and when necessary, advocates on their behalf in adversary proceedings. With her help, business owners and HR leaders identify, avoid, or mitigate employment-related risk.
Jennie’s experience includes leading clients through complex reductions in force. She has revamped hiring practices, drafted handbooks and corporate policies, and conducted agency-wide audits on exemption and pay practices. Jennie has designed and conducted management and employee training, and helped launch a number of HR-led strategic initiatives, including several acquisitions. She has successfully obtained dismissal of claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, failure to provide leave and failure to accommodate, and enjoined unfair competition practices, in court. And she has negotiated favorable settlements for clients in collective and class action matters involving alleged wage and hour violations, and in union arbitral disputes. Finally, she has successfully represented clients in numerous New York State Department of Labor audits and hearings on claims of suspected contractor misclassification.
Jennie is deeply committed to civic responsibility and pro bono work. Throughout her career, her public interest activities have included representing claimants in unemployment insurance hearings, advocating for women’s breastfeeding and reproductive health rights, and representing children in child protective and juvenile delinquency hearings in Family Court. Currently, she sits on the board of Wheel it Forward, a lending library for durable medical equipment located in Stamford.
Jennie regularly writes articles, and speaks publicly at legal and industry conferences. She attended Fordham University School of Law and the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude. Jennie is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and several federal jurisdictions.
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Benjamin Folkinshteyn, Esq.
Benjamin (Ben) Folkinshteyn has broad experience in domestic and international dispute resolution, including contract and tort matters, corporate governance litigation, as well as insurance litigation and arbitration. He regularly counsels clients on litigation avoidance strategies and legal and business risk assessment.
Before co-founding WFPC, Ben worked at several prestigious New York law firms and taught legal ethics as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law.
Ben’s work has included representation of clients in the resolution of commercial disputes and investigations across a broad array of industries, including energy, insurance and financial services at the state, federal and international levels. He advises clients in complex legal analysis to identify risk and likely outcomes of litigation strategies. Further, Ben has extensive experience in conducting internal investigations and due diligence projects.
Ben is also deeply involved in civic and charitable commitments that strengthen communities. He is a long-standing member of the board of the Kings Bay YM-YWHA located in Brooklyn, NY. Ben also remains active with his graduate alma mater and contributes to alumni-led initiatives through his service on the Penn Law Alumni Society Board of Managers. In addition, he serves as a member of the City of Stamford’s Board of Ethics.
Ben graduated with a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he was awarded Order of the Coif. In addition, he earned his LL.M. in International Trade and Business magna cum laude from Fordham University School of Law.
Ben is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, District of Columbia as well as several federal jurisdictions and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Alexandra Rubin, Associate
Alex has more 16 years of diverse legal experience across in-house roles, private practice, and government service. She has advised a wide range of clients—including universities, state and local government entities, and for-profit and nonprofit organizations—on employment law, internal investigations, regulatory compliance, administrative proceedings, privacy matters, contract negotiation, and policy development.
Alex has deep expertise in all facets of employment law including workplace investigations, hiring and termination, wage and hour compliance, leave and accommodation laws, discrimination and retaliation claims, and workplace policy and handbook development. She regularly guides clients through complex and sensitive matters and has successfully represented employers in state and federal courts as well as before administrative agencies.
Alex began her legal career as a judicial law clerk to the Senior Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court before joining an AmLaw 100 firm in Boston, where she focused on business and employment litigation and counseling for national clients in the education, healthcare, and hospitality sectors.
She earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Rhode Island in 2006 and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School in 2009, where she served as Executive Editor of the Suffolk University Law Review. Alex holds a SHRM specialty credential in workplace investigations and is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts.
