Overview

Donald C. Dowling has extensive experience advising U.S.-based companies on outbound international labor and employment laws. Don provides counsel on a wide variety of global employment law matters, including codes of conduct and HR policies that guide operations in multiple jurisdictions, international compensation and benefits issues, whistleblower hotlines, and cross-border internal investigations and HR compliance audits. He regularly advises clients on employment matters that arise with international restructurings, reductions in force, mergers, acquisitions, and outsourcing. Additionally, Don helps clients properly engage independent contractors overseas, manage expatriate programs, and develop employment agreements and employee handbooks.

Earlier in his career, Don served as in-house international employment counsel for a Fortune 500 company in Paris and as an employment law consultant for a global consulting firm. He has delivered hundreds of presentations on international employment law issues in English and Spanish in countries around the world, and regularly publishes articles and teaches courses on a variety of global employment law topics.

Professional & Community Affiliations

Member, Advisory Board

New York University School of Law’s Center for Labor & Employment Law

Former Chair

Cross-Border HR Group

XBHR

Recognition

Named, America's Leading Lawyers for Business

Chambers USA

2017

Named, Legal 500

US Labor & Employment, Workplace and Employment Counseling

Named, Super Lawyer

New York

Super Lawyers

Recommended, Labour & Employment

Who's Who Legal

2024

Named, Attorneys Who Matter

2010

Ethisphere Institute

Named, Leading International Labor/Employment Lawyer

PLC Which Lawyer?

Named, The Best Lawyers in America®

2019-2024

Order of the Coif

Books & Book Chapters

  • The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), International Corporate Practice, Practicing Law Institute, Chapter Co-Author, March 2022

Education

  • J.D., University of Florida College of Law, 1985
  • A.B., University of Chicago, 1982

Languages

  • Spanish

Bar Admission

New York

Courts

  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio