About Larry
Larry Cary is a founding partner at Cary Kane LLP, a law firm based in New York City. He has been practicing labor, employment, and employee benefits law for over 30 years. Before co-founding Cary Kane LLP, Mr. Cary was the senior partner in the labor department at Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., where he represented unions and benefit plans for 17 years. He also served as general counsel to the Amalgamated Service and Allied Industries Joint Board, ACTWU. Its benefit plans. Mr. Cary is licensed to practice law in the State of New York and has been admitted to the U.S.
District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and Seventh Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, earned in 1983, and a Certificate in Employee Benefits Law from Georgetown University Law Center, obtained in 2008. He also earned a B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1975. Mr.
Cary is active in several professional organizations, including the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, the Association of Benefit Administrators, and the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Advisory Board. He serves as the Treasurer of the Workers Defense League, Inc., which provides free representation to claimants at unemployment compensation insurance hearings in New York City. He is also the President of the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation, Inc. Mr. Cary has taught labor law and related subjects for over 20 years, serving as an Adjunct in the labor liberal arts extension certificate program of Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations. As an Assistant Professor at Hofstra University. He has represented clients in various industries, including trucking, warehousing, municipal and voluntary hospitals, nursing homes, the postal service, defense contracting, building services, newspapers, retail, manufacturing, clothing, laundry and linen supply, maritime, airline, private and public sector education, bakery, grocery and produce, over-the-road freight, car wash.
Government. Mr. Cary was General Counsel to TWU, Local 100, the union for bus and subway workers in New York City, and is General Counsel to District Council 1707, AFSCME, which represents workers in New York City Day Care, Head Start, Home Care, and other non-profit agencies. He has been recognized in the Annual Guide to Labor and Employment Law by The American Lawyer and listed in New York Super Lawyers. He is "AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. In 2011, he received the John Commerford Labor Education Award from the New York Labor History Association. Mr. Cary is married with two children.
