Areas of Practice include:

Appellate
Business
Education
Health Care
Labor & Employment
Litigation
Public Officers

Joseph C. Dole is a partner at Mackenzie Hughes and focuses his practice on the full range of counseling and representing employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, including representation of employers in the litigation of employment discrimination cases in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies such as the New York State Division of Human Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office for Civil Rights and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

Joe also represents employers in traditional labor matters including labor arbitration, collective bargaining, and proceedings brought before the National Labor Relations Board and the New York Public Employment Relations Board. He has represented and counseled employers in matters involving wage and hour issues, employee non-competition, employment at-will and employment contracts. He has experience working with employers in a variety of industries, including higher education, healthcare and public employers.

Joe received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1983 and a Masters degree in Public Administration from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 1985. He received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1988. At Yale he was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

He is admitted to practice in New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States District Courts for Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and is a member of the Labor and Employment Law sections of the American Bar and the New York State Bar Associations.

After law school, Joe clerked for the Hon. John E. Sprizzo, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. He practiced law in New York City and then returned to Syracuse in 1990 to practice labor and employment law as an associate and then as a partner in a local law firm. Joe has also taught as a Visiting Professor at Syracuse University's College of Law and as an Associate Clinical Professor at Cornell Law School.

Joe lives in the Town of Onondaga with his wife Kate, and their two sons, Harry and Sam.