Biography
Miguel Tapia Colin represents workers and employers in wage theft, overtime, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, wrongful termination, and union-management matters. He has worked on over fifty wage theft cases and has represented clients in federal and state court, before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, the New York State Division of Human Rights, the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and in arbitration and mediation proceedings before JAMS and the American Arbitration Association.
Miguel graduated from Rutgers Law School – Newark, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Rutgers Race and the Law Review and published “Revisiting The Scope Of 42 U.S.C. § 1981: Protecting Daca Recipients and Non-Citizens From Alienage Discrimination in Lending Practices.”
Prior to attending law school, Miguel worked as a Paralegal at Outten & Golden LLP in the class action group. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University in 2019. Miguel is fluent in Spanish and has working proficiency in French.
