Jonathan A. Segal is Co-Chair of WolfBlock’s Employment Services Group. Jonathan also is Managing Principal of the Wolf Institute, the training and educational arm of the Employment Services Group.

Jonathan’s practice focuses on:

• Preventive counseling, training and policy development, for example, with regard to harassment, diversity/glass ceiling issues, performance management, ADA, FMLA and FLSA compliance, violence, substance abuse, hiring and recruiting and workplace privacy.

• Contracts/agreements/manuals, for example, employment agreements, executive contracts, severance agreements, ADR agreements, non-compete and other post-termination agreements, employee handbooks and managerial manuals.

• Traditional labor, for example, union prevention audits and systems, anti-union campaigns, collective bargaining and management rights training.

• Adversarial proceedings and government investigations, for example, EEO and other administrative charges as well DOL and other investigations.

Jonathan has served as a consultant to the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C., providing training on employment issues to federal judges around the country. In this capacity, Jonathan has been the featured speaker at conferences for Chief United States District Judges.

Jonathan is also frequently a featured speaker at national, state and local human resource, business and legal conferences, including conferences sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management, the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Business and Industry and ACCA.

Jonathan consistently has been one of the top-rated speakers at numerous SHRM National Conferences, including SHRM’s Annual Conference, Diversity Conference, EMA Conference and Employment Law and Legislative Conference.

Jonathan is the Legislative Director for PA State Council of SHRM, Inc.

Jonathan also has lectured regularly at the University of Pennsylvania’s Masters Program in Organizational Dynamics and Villanova University’s SHRM Accreditation Course.

Jonathan has been cited as a national authority on employment issues in articles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, CNN Online, Business Week Online and Money, among others.

Jonathan hosted a television special on sexual harassment, "The Sexual Harassment Quiz." The special, which was based on a supervisory training exercise that Jonathan developed, has been broadcast on more than 200 PBS stations throughout the country.

Jonathan is the Chair of WolfBlock’s Higher Education Group. A member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, Jonathan provides legal counsel to public and private, secular and sectarian, colleges and universities. Jonathan also has been a featured speaker at NACUA and CUPA conferences.

Jonathan received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

Prior to joining WolfBlock LLP, Jonathan clerked for the Honorable Norma L. Shapiro, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Jonathan is a member of the Pennsylvania and New York Bar.

Jonathan's passion outside of work is animal adoption. He volunteers for the Montgomery County SPCA and other local groups to find families for lost, abandoned and other homeless cats and dogs.

Jonathan has published more than 150 articles on employment issues, which includes 100 articles for HRMagazine. In addition to writing Op-Eds for various media outlets, Jonathan is a Contributing Editor to HRMagazine and is a frequent contributor to Metropolitan Corporate Counsel.

Articles Jonathan has written for Metropolitan Corporate Counsel include:

• Systemic Racial Bias
• Managing Saddam Hussein
• Pandemic Pandemonium
• How Sexual Harassment Prevention Programs Hurt Women
• Me And Bobby McGee
• Off Duty Blogging: What’s Work Got To Do With It?
• Holiday Cheers and January Jeers
• The ADA’s Internal Conflict Disorder
• Slaking the Appetite for Harassment Litigation
• The Right To Abuse Your Employer and Other Section 7 Rights
• Martha Stewart: Just Desserts or Gender Soufflé?
• A Very Lawful Quid Pro Quo
• Reducing the Risk in Reducing the Force
• Winks, Nods and Disguises
• In-House Attorney as Investigator
• Backlash of a Few

Articles Jonathan has written for HRMagazine include:

• I Did It, But
• What's Work Got to Do With It
• Woman in the Moon
• Unlimited Check-Writing Authority for Supervisors
• Good Fit Isn't Always Legit
• Sexual Harassment Prevention: Cement for the Glass Ceiling?
• Deconstructing Documentation
• Unshackle Your Supervisors To Stay Union Free
• Time Is on Their Side
• Kill All the Lawyers?
• Dangerous Liaisons
• The Risky Business of Risky Aversion
• Resolve or Report?
• Diversify for Dollars
• Shatter the Glass Ceiling; Dodge the Shards
• Keeping Norma Rae at Bay
• White-Collar Wrinkles
• The World May Welcome Lovers...
• I Quit! Now Pay Me
• Mirror, Mirror On The Wall
• Foolish Consistency
• Evaluating the Evaluators
• Labor Pains for Union-Free Employers
• Diversity Danger Zones
• Ensuring Legal Peace
• Urine or You’re Out
• Diversity: Direct or Disguised
• When Charles Manson Goes To Work
• Military Leave Minefields
• The Defenselessness of Harassment
• Is It Shredding Time Yet?
• Is Your Employee Handbook a Time Bomb?
• The “Joy” of Uncooking
• Love: What’s Work Got To Do With It?
• The “I Hate You” Defense
• Sex Addict Goes To Work
• The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
• Sensitive Men: A Workplace Oxymoron?
• HR as Judge, Jury, Prosecutor and Defender
• The “U” Word
• Workplace Tribal Councils
• Firing Without Fear
• An Offer They Couldn’t Refuse
• A Need Not To Know
• I’m Depressed–Accommodate Me!
• Women on the Verge ...of Equality
• Who Wants to Make a Millionaire?
• The Sexlessness of Harassment
• 86 Your Appraisal Process?
• Did the Marquis De Sade Design Your Discipline Program?
• Mirror-Image Mentoring
• Safe Sex: A Workplace Oxymoron
• Executions Corporate Style
• Follow the Yellow Brick Road
• Expose the Union’s Underbelly
• Goliath Had Rights Too
• Brains in a Jar
• Baby Bust Blues
• Performance Management for Jekyll and Hyde
• Could Peer Review Have Saved Marie Antoinette’s Head?