Melanie Moreland Hartmann

Practice Details

• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Experience: Represented employers in numerous EEOC proceedings
  Represented employers in numerous state
  federal court employment lawsuits
  Obtained numerous summary judgment rulings in favor of employer clients
  Successfully represented a global chemical company in a labor arbitration
  Represented major industrial client as employer in jury trial in state court in which plaintiff alleged unlawful sex discrimination
  sexual harassment
  judgment for employer
  Represented major industrial client as employer in jury trial in federal court in which plaintiff alleged unlawful retaliation in denied promotion
  judgment for employer
  Represented major industrial client as employer in jury trial in federal court in which plaintiff alleged disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act
  judgment for employer
  Represented major industrial client as employer in jury trial in federal court in which plaintiff alleged race discrimination in denied promotion
  judgment for employer
  Obtained summary judgment for a global integrated energy company. In the underlying suit, an employee of the company's industrial facility claimed his employment had been terminated because of his race. After an earlier partial dispositive motion victory, six depositions,
  extensive written discovery
  document production, the Court granted our team's motion
  dismissed the plaintiff's case three weeks before the scheduled jury trial
  Obtained summary judgment in favor of client in suit involving non-competition agreement
  Represented chemical facility in CSB
  OSHA investigations