Levy-Ettinger, Nakdimon & Co., Attorneys-at-Law & Notary

Levy-Ettinger, Nakdimon & Co., Attorneys-at-Law & Notary is a leading Israeli law firm specializing in labor and employment law, with particular expertise in preventing and addressing sexual harassment in the workplace. The firm advises employers and organizations, trains persons responsible for implementing the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law, develops tailored prevention programs, provides lectures and seminars, and represents clients before the Labor Courts, achieving precedent-setting results. The firm also promotes social initiatives and advocacy for greater equality in Israeli society and the workplace. 

Premium-Level Legal Services

LEN was established in 2014 through the merger of two firms – Levy-Ettinger, founded in 2003, and Nakdimon, founded in 2004. Located in Park HaMada in Rehovot, the firm provides high-level, comprehensive legal services with personal and efficient service. Its practice areas also include civil-commercial law, real estate, wills and inheritances, mediation and arbitration.
The firm’s labor law practice advises companies and individuals on gender equality, discrimination and sexual harassment prevention. Its commercial practice specializes in real estate law, representing entrepreneurs, contractors, purchasing groups, asset-swap transactions and private clients. LEN is committed to gender equality and an egalitarian workplace, while emphasizing a healthy balance between professional and personal life.

Over the years, the firm has established legal precedents in workplace equality and sexual harassment prevention, some of which have become binding case law. These include the Orit Goren ruling on equal pay, the Sharona Arviv judgment establishing that women are not required to disclose pregnancy during job interviews, and the recent Anonymous Plaintiff and Women’s Lobby v. Sheba Medical Center ruling, which established employers’ duty to prevent and address sexual harassment by third parties, including patients, clients and suppliers.
The firm has extensive experience in sexual harassment prevention, led by Adv. Nakdimon. She advises workplace and academic supervisors responsible for implementing the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law, providing ongoing guidance on prevention and handling complaints, including conducting investigations in accordance with the law. She also serves as an external supervisor/examiner under the Law, carrying out preventive measures and investigating cases where the internal supervisor cannot do so, tailoring each process to the organization’s specific needs and circumstances. 

The Partners

Adv. Shir-el Nakdimon, Managing Partner - Shir-el is the firm’s managing partner. She specializes in labor law, with an emphasis on sexual harassment, gender, and discrimination. She is considered to be one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the field of women’s rights, sexual harassment, gender and discrimination, including in discrimination due to pregnancy, age, parenting, fertility treatments, military reserves service, gender, sexual orientation, disability, etc. In addition, she manages litigation cases in the labor tribunals across Israel, in every aspect of labor law, represents in pre-termination hearings, represents employees before the Ministry of Employment’s Supervisor of Women Employment Law, in application for terminations approval and in mediations. She accompanies many employers in creating a better, more respecting work environment, one that is safe from sexual harassments, harassing and workplace bullying. She serves as an external supervisor and a member of a team for the prevention of assaults and sexual harassments in closed communities, such as Kibbutz. Adv. Nakdimon lectures regarding the prevention of sexual harassment at work and trains supervisors who oversee the law, in various organizations, throughout the country, and lectures in private companies, public companies, local authorities, academia, help centers, Kibbutz, the Israeli Bar Association, the Association for Labor Law, and more. Further-more, she provides legal counsel to companies and individuals in senior positions, including drafting employment contracts and agreements, and accompanies and counsels SMEs on all aspects of employment, from drafting employment agreements, through the ongoing legal counsel throughout the employment period, and up to employment termination proceedings, including close guidance on the legal requirements and an emphasis on the optimal management of labor relations. Shir-el holds an LL.B. (1998) from Manchester University in Israel - Kiryat Ono Campus. She was admitted to the Israeli Bar in 2000.

Adv. and Mediator Aviad Ettinger, Founding Partner - Aviad founded the firm in 2003 together with the Late Adv. Odelia Levy Ettinger. He serves as a mediator and an arbitrator in the practice areas of civil law, real estate, labor and family laws, and often counsels and represents companies in in a wide range of commercial matters, and real estate. He has experience in managing real estate transactions and construction projects from the land acquisition stages up to the apartments’ sale, and he represents contractors, developers and private clients. Aviad holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University and he’s a member of the Israeli Bar since 1995. Adv. Ettinger also initiated and leads the “Revadim” project for supporting women with cancer, in memory of his late wife, Adv. Odelia Levy-Ettinger.

Adv., Notary and Mediator Ohad Feiler, Partner - Ohad has been working in the firm since 2010 and was made partner in 2019. He has vast experience in real estate and lands law and in the framework of his work he accompanies developers, contractors and private clients. Among others, he specializes in accompanying combination transactions and purchasing groups, from the negotiation’s stages, through agreement drafting and up to registration and representation before the relevant authorities. He also counsels and litigates in the civil-commercial law practice area. Ohad is a member of the Israel Bar Association’s national Settlement and ILA (Israel Lands Authority) Committee. Ohad holds an LL.B. and a B.A., Business Administration from the Academic Program of the College of Management. He was admitted to the Israeli Bar in 2008. 

Community Outreach

LEN’s lawyers see themselves as social lawyers. Considering this approach, the firm works pro bono for the community. Among other, the firm volunteers to support NGOs, including the Israel Women’s Network, The Women’s Courtyard - A feminine, multicultural, protective and empowering space for women and girls in risk and distress situations, The Galilee Golan Sexual Assault Victims Support Center, the Rishon LeZion Municipal Women Rights Center, and more. The firm also provides legal services to the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. Adv. Nakdimon has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Israeli Association for Labor Law and Social Security since 2016.