About
An attorney inside the firm’s Detroit workplace, Claudia D. Orr completely represents and advises employers and management in employment and labor law subjects. Ms. Orr s clients encompass Fortune 500 groups, neighborhood governments, tier-one automobile providers, nationwide distributors of pharmaceutical products, severa nonprofit businesses, healthcare companies, restaurants, and wholesale food distributors. She additionally has extensive litigation and appellate enjoy, and frequently practices earlier than state and federal courts as an suggest. As a counselor, Ms. Orr regularly advises clients on employment/hard work matters, consisting of hiring, field/discharge, complex ADA/Family and Medical Leave Act/STD-LTD/Workers Disability Compensation issues, and labor grievances/arbitration matters. Ms. Orr frequently defends clients in litigation and arbitration matters related to allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, FMLA violations, wage/advantage problems, retaliation in opposition to whistleblowers, public policy discharge, unpaid commissions, and pension, severance and other ERISA claims, and so forth. Ms. Orr robotically represents clients in administrative court cases earlier than government businesses, inclusive of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Michigan Department of Civil Rights, nation and federal Departments of Labor (along with their Wage and Hour Divisions ), and the Michigan Employment Security Commission. In addition, Ms. Orr has an ever-growing exercise in Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”). In this regard, she serves as defense case evaluator for the unique employment panels of the Wayne, Macomb and Oakland Counties’ Case Evaluation Tribunals, is an appointee to the American Arbitration Association’s Roster of Neutrals for its Employment Panel, and serves as a mediator for the American Arbitration Association and others. She has been indexed in Best Lawyers in America® for Employment Law - Management and Top Lawyers in Detroit for numerous years. › ›
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- Senior Lawyer
Plunkett Cooney
2005 - Partner
Williams Mullin ("sold to" Howard & Howard)
2003 - Partner
Clark Hill
2001 - Partner
Barris Sott Denn & Driker
1996 - Associate Lawyer
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
1991
Educations
Graduation year: 1988
Graduation year: 1980
