Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Employment and Labor

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Marilyn is group leader of the Atlanta office’s Employment and Global Mobility Team.  Her practice focuses on management/employee relations, affirmative action, global mobility, and employment-related issues employers encounter every day.  She represents a wide range of employers before federal, state and local government agencies and advises clients concerning employment policy design and review, contract negotiations and management training programs.

Marilyn has decades of experience providing training on employment-related issues with respect to expatriate assignments. She regularly develops in-house training programs for employers on key developments in domestic and global employment law. In addition, she is an authority on global  mobility matters and frequently conducts roundtable and panel discussions on international employment issues before domestic and global in-house legal counsel. She regularly works with the firm’s global mobility team to develop an orderly and efficient practice for expatriate assignments and the transfer of personnel between countries.

In the area of equal employment opportunity, Marilyn handles discrimination claims involving age, race, gender, national origin, religion, disabled and veterans’ rights issues as well as investigations arising from such claims. She is one of the nation’s leading defense lawyers with respect to wage and hour matters. Marilyn assists clients in all aspects of wage and hour law compliance, including implementing compensation policies, conducting pay equity audits and remediation efforts, and reporting compensation data to government agencies.

Marilyn is nationally recognized for her experience in government-mandated affirmative action plans.  She assists federal contactor clients to meet their OFCCP compliance obligations. She is national affirmative action counsel for several companies whose federal contractor facilities are located throughout the United States. Marilyn has defended numerous companies in hundreds of OFCCP audits and investigations, including “glass ceiling” reviews and class action complaints before the OFCCP.  She is one of the nation’s leading defense lawyers in connection with OFCCP matters and regularly works with OFCCP district and regional offices throughout the United States.

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