Ms. Damon is a partner in the Boston office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP and is the immediate past Chair of the Labor & Employment Department. In her tenure as Chair, the Department was awarded numerous honors for its superb legal work and innovation, including Chambers Band One ranking and six consecutive years as Law360 Practice Group of the Year. Companies nationwide rely on Ms. Damon’s significant experience in consulting on employment matters and litigating a broad-range of employment matters. As a trial lawyer and seasoned employment litigator, Ms. Damon brings many years of experience winning for her clients at all stages of litigation. She is a practical, business-focused advisor, getting results and limiting risk for her clients. In addition to employment litigation, Ms. Damon’s practice is also dedicated to consulting with clients on policy implementation and avoiding employment litigation, through improved management policies and practices, positive employee relations, training and diversity assessment. She advises companies on organizational strategy and conducts privileged investigations, audits and assessments of the workplace. Ms. Damon also works with management to devise and refine all types of workplace programs, helping companies create a best-in-class environment for employees while limiting liability. Ms. Damon also has considerable experience in devising and managing alternative, value-based fee structures and working with clients in successfully managing large portfolios of labor and employment work with a focus on reducing risk, lowering legal fees and increasing value to the business. Ms. Damon is also on Seyfarth’s Executive Committee and leads the Seyfarth Lean Six Sigma program throughout the Firm. Seyfarth has trained GreenBelts throughout all its offices and practice groups. These GreenBelts are trained to lead client teams to deliver high value, predictably priced legal services to meet our client’s needs. Ms. Damon is a certified Scrum Master and Lean Six Sigma GreenBelt. Ms. Damon speaks and consults extensively, both on a local and national level, on various aspects employment law, employment litigation and the use of lean six sigma, process improvement, data analysis and project management in legal processes. Ms. Damon was one of the small panel of Big Thinkers invited to speak at the 2017 Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) conference and is a regular speaker at local and national Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) events. Ms. Damon has been recognized throughout her career with many prominent national accolades including consecutive years in the Top 50 Most Powerful Employment Lawyers in the US and Legal 500. Ms. Damon was also selected as the Chambers USA Woman Employment Attorney of the Year. Ms. Damon has been Chambers ranked in Band One since the inception of the Boston rankings and has recently been awarded their Esteemed Practitioner ranking. She is a Fellow of the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers. Ms. Damon was also named one of the top 10 Agents of Change in the Financial Times U.S. Innovative Lawyer Report; she was featured among the 10 most innovative attorneys in the country by the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels: Big Change in Big Law; and, she was recognized by the Association of Corporate Counsel as an ACC Value Champion.

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