Prior to working for government and investment funds, Stephanie represented governments and Fortune 500 clients as a litigator in complex employment, commercial, and real estate matters.
Representative Matters
- Conducted pleading, discovery, preliminary motion, and trial stage of numerous winning cases, including breach of contract, employment, and fraud jury trials.
- Oversaw internal investigations and responses to federal administrative agency labour and employment complaints, obtaining findings in favour of clients.
- Examined expert and fact witnesses, establishing key evidence prior to trial.
- Successfully argued pre-trial applications obtaining pre-trial dismissal of age discrimination, gender discrimination and whistleblower complaints.
- Negotiated contentious dissolution of four-partner investment firm and drafted settlement agreement for same.
- Negotiated and prepared banking settlements with Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller.
- Second chair on multi-million-dollar race, age and sex discrimination, and whistleblower suits.
- Conducted in-house investigation of fraud resulting in dismissal of employee’s discrimination lawsuit.
- Prepared winning brief in state trial court in case regarding fiduciary duties of managing members to other members during restructuring of hedge fund.
- Examined surprise adverse witness in national origin discrimination and whistleblower employment case, getting witness to admit lack of knowledge of basis of claims.
- Wrote and successfully argued winning trial court petitions, appellate and arbitration briefs.
