Stephanie’s areas of expertise include the full gamut of employment counseling and litigation. The counseling side of her practice focuses on litigation avoidance including matters involving daily personnel decisions, discipline and termination, reductions-in-force, benefits and FMLA administration, disability accommodations procedures, wage and hour issues, harassment and discrimination investigations, policy drafting, implementation and enforcement, employee and supervisory training, performance management and contract and agreement drafting (non-competes, trade secret protection, independent contractors, etc.).

Stephanie’s litigation experience includes representation of large, medium and small-sized employers in lawsuits alleging all types of discrimination and harassment, retaliation and violations of virtually every employment law and statute including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA), the Equal Pay Act, the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) and all corresponding state laws as well as Ohio common law claims like wrongful discharge in violation of public policy, promissory estoppel and others.