Elena Paraskevas-Thadani

I have practiced law for over 25 years and am a former Equity Partner of the largest global employer and labor practice in the world. I have represented employees in employment disputes and employers in complex and multi-party class action, wage and hour, and discrimination lawsuits in Federal and State courts. I have also successfully represented companies undergoing Department of Labor, Attorney General, EEOC and other government agency audits and investigations. 

I am an experienced trainer and facilitator having conducted hundreds of Equal Employment Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion and other compliance training sessions for executives of public and private companies. I have developed training programs nationally on professional conduct, diversity, team-building and other leadership topics. 

As an attorney and licensed private investigator, I conduct in-house investigations of sensitive workplace complaints and of workplace misconduct, including discrimination, harassment, bullying, fraud, and other policy matters. As a mediator certified by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and by the New York Peace Institute, I specialise in resolving employment cases and workplace disputes when concerns are raised to management or human resources, and at all stages of litigation. I also am a certified Executive Coach specialised in working with C-Level executives on developing their skills as leaders. I have devoted my career to solving workplace issues, because the workplace has both professional and personal significance to those within it.

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