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Labor and Employment Law
Original Program Date :
- Speakers, session times and credit hours are subject to change.
Ethics | 
Professionalism | 
Trial Practice
- Presiding:
- Lisa Knottek Simpson, Program Chair; Assistant General Counsel – Employment, Rollins, Inc., Atlanta, GA
- 8:30
- Introduction
- Julia D. Neighbors, ICLE Director, State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
- 8:35
- Welcome and Program Overview
- Lisa Knottek Simpson
- 8:40
- Wage and Hour Update
- Eric R. Magnus, Principal and Office Litigation Manager, Jackson Lewis PC, Atlanta, GA
- Justin M. Scott, Managing Shareholder, Radford Scott, LLP, Decatur, GA
- 9:40
- Break
- 9:50
- EEO Litigation from an Administrative Judge's Perspective
- Karla B. Dolby, Attorney at Law, Decatur, GA
- Hon. Timothy G. Hagan, Administrative Law Judge, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Atlanta, GA
- Hon. Dorian E. Henriquez-Simons, Administrative Law Judge, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Atlanta, GA
- 10:50
Labor Law Update
Kerstin I. Meyers, Supervisory Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, Atlanta, GA
Nicolas M. “Nick” Stanojevich, Quinn Connor Weaver Davies & Rouco LLP, Atlanta, GA - 11:50
- Lunch
- 12:35
- Employment Law Update
- Marcus G. Keegan, Regional Attorney, Atlanta District Office, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Atlanta, GA
- 1:35
- Mentorship Academy Update
- Molly J. Gray, Trial Attorney, Poole Huffman, Tucker, GA
- Abigail J. Larimer, Assistant General Counsel – Employment & Litigation, Mohawk Industries, Calhoun, GA
- Lisa Knottek Simpson
- 2:35
- Break
- 2:45
- A View from the Bench
- Hon. Christopher C. Bly, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
- Cheryl B. Legare, Legare Attwood & Wolfe LLC, Decatur, GA
- Hon. J. Elizabeth McBath, Magistrate Judge, District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
- 3:45
- Adjourn
Description v.OD1, Brochure v4
Mr. Eric R. Magnus, Jackson Lewis PC
Ms. Karla Brown Dolby
Ms. Dorian Elaine Henriquez-Simons, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Mr. Justin Michael Scott, Radford Scott LLP
Ms. Kerstin Irene Meyers, National Labor Relations Board
Mr. Nicolas Miguel Stanojevich, Quinn Connor Weaver Davies & Rouco LLP
Nicolas Stanojevich is a partner at Quinn, Connor, Weaver, Davies & Rouco. He has been practicing union-side labor law since graduating from the University of Georgia Law School in 2015. Nicolas is admitted to practice in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.
Mr. Marcus G. Keegan, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Marcus G. Keegan currently serves as the regional attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Atlanta District Office. His appointment as regional attorney marked his return to the EEOC, where he was hired through the Honors Attorney Program after his graduation from Emory University School of Law. He worked as a trial attorney in the Atlanta District office of the EEOC before working in private practice for more than fifteen years practicing mostly in the areas of employment discrimination and wage and hour law.
Marcus Keegan serves as a an adjunct professor of law teaching Employment Discrimination at Emory University School of Law. He is a frequent lecturer on topics related to employment law as well as law practice and has been named a Lorman Education Services Distinguished Faculty Member. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers Top 100 – Georgia, Super Lawyers – Rising Stars, and has been named as a Legal Elite by Georgia Trend magazine.
Mr. Keegan is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia and currently serves as the chair of the Labor & Employment section of the State Bar. He has previously served on the board of directors of the National Employment Lawyers Association’s Georgia and National Chapters. He has been appointed by the Georgia Supreme Court as a mentor for the Transition into Law Practice Program as well as served as a mentor in the State Bar of Georgia Labor & Employment Law’s Mentorship Academy.
Education: JD, Emory University School of Law; BA, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Ms. Abigail Jane Larimer, Mohawk Industries
Ms. Molly James Gray, Poole Huffman, LLC
Ms. Cheryl Barnes Legare, Legare Attwood & Ragan, LLC
Ms. J. Elizabeth McBath, US District Court Northern District of Georgia
Mr. Christopher C. Bly, US District Court Northern District of Georgia
Ms. Lisa Noelle Knottek, Rollins Inc
Lisa Knottek is Assistant General Counsel – Employment for Rollins, Inc., an Atlanta-based global consumer and commercial pest control services company with approximately 20,000 employees worldwide. Lisa manages the company’s employment related litigation. She also oversees the company’s nationwide compliance with relevant labor and employment law. Lisa practiced employment law at law firms in Atlanta for 13 years prior to joining Rollins.
Lisa grew up in Atlanta. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and graduated from Emory University School of Law.
