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Ms Lisa Damon
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Work Department
Labor and Employment Department; Employment Litigation & Counseling Practice Group.
Position
Lisa Damon is the former national Chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Department and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. She is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt and leads the SeyfarthLean program throughout the firm. Her practice has a particular emphasis on the litigation of discrimination and harassment claims in the context of single-plaintiff and multi-plaintiff cases. She also counsels clients on the avoidance of employment litigation through improved management policies and practices, positive employee relations training and diversity assessment. She advises companies nationwide on issues of diversity and conducts privileged and non-privileged audits and assessments of the workplace.
Career
National Chair, Labor and Employment Department, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (2009-2017); Member, Executive Committee, Seyfarth Shaw LLP; Member, Compensation Committee, Seyfarth Shaw LLP; Member, SeyfarthLean Steering Committee; Chair, Labor and Employment Department Leadership Team.
Memberships
Fellow, College of Labor & Employment Lawyers; American Bar Association; Massachusetts Bar Association; Boston Bar Association; Women’s Bar Association; Greater Boston Legal Services (1996-1999).
Education
JD, Fordham University School of Law (1987); MS, Fordham University (1984); BA, Beloit College (1978).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
(Leading lawyers)Seyfarth Shaw LLP, which is headquartered in Chicago, offers a wide range of services for large international corporations, from investigations to helping clients implement diversity and inclusion strategies, and has significant experience with regards to federal legislative and regulatory policy issues. David Baffa, located in Chicago, leads the workplace counseling and solutions team. William Perkins, who has decades of experience advising clients on complex matters, is based in New York – he is particularly experienced in the application of leave laws and matters concerning disabled employees. Lisa Damon, based in Boston, is a well-versed litigator and counselor on matters concerning company senior executives. Operating from Washington DC, Lawrence Lorber frequently works on regulatory enforcement actions. Joshua Seidman, working from New York, has notable expertise in both mandatory paid sick and safe leave laws, as well as family medical leave laws. In Atlanta, Renate Walker is adept in handling paid leave, absence management and accommodations, and employment policy development and review. In January 2024, Gary Friedman
joined the firm from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Workplace and employment counseling United States > Labor and employment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious