Jones Day

The practice at Jones Day is equipped to handle the gamut of contentious labor and employment matters, namely wage and hour class and collective actions, discrimination actions, wage and hour claims, collective bargaining, and mass arbitration of employment discrimination. The team regularly defends employers in the retail, aerospace, and oil-and-gas segments before the Supreme Court, courts of appeals and district courts. New York-based Matthew Lampe co-leads and specializes in defending employers in class actions under state discrimination, wrongful discharge, and other tort laws. Chicago-based Elizabeth McRee shares leadership of the group and has notable experience in state and federal wage and hour and antidiscrimination law. Also in Chicago, Michael Gray stands out for his knowledge of trade secret and restrictive covenant matters. In New York, Wendy Butler garners praise for her work defending management in employment-related litigation, while in Washington DC, Thomas Chiavetta has focused his practice on representing transportation-sector clients.