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Melissa Lardo Stewart
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Biography
MELISSA LARDO STEWART is a partner at Outten & Golden LLP in New York, where she represents employees in class action wage and discrimination cases. She has represented workers across many industries and job functions, including retail, sales, food service, hospitality, financial services, accounting, and telecommunications. She has prosecuted wage theft claims on behalf of workers who were required to work off-the-clock, subjected to time-shaving, wrongly classified as exempt from overtime protections, and improperly treated as independent contractors. Ms. Stewart also currently represents employees and applicants in class and collective action gender and age discrimination cases.
Before Ms. Stewart joined Outten & Golden LLP in November 2013, she clerked for the Honorable James Orenstein in the Eastern District of New York and the Honorable Dickinson R. Debevoise in the District of New Jersey, and represented workers and labor unions as an associate at Woodley & McGillivary in Washington, D.C. She graduated magna cum laude from Fordham University School of Law in 2009.
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Licensed in District of Columbia for 12 years
State: District of Columbia
Acquired: 2013
No misconduct found
Licensed in New York for 15 years
State: New York
Acquired: 2010
No misconduct found
Location
Outten & Golden LLP
685 Third Avenue, 25th Floor, New York, NY, 10017
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Experience
Honors
2020
Rising Star, Super Lawyers
2019
Rising Star, Super Lawyers
2019
New York Women Rising Star, Super Lawyers
2018
Rising Star, Super Lawyers
2017
Rising Star, Super Lawyers
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Hugh R. Jones Award in Law & Public Policy, Fordham University School of Law
Work Experience
2018 - Present
Partner, Outten & Golden LLP
2013 - 2017
Associate, Outten & Golden, LLP
2011 - 2013
Associate, Woodley & McGillivary
2010 - 2011
Law Clerk, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
2009 - 2009
Law Clerk, Communications Workers of America, District One Legal Department
2008 - 2008
Legal Intern, Make the Road NY
2008 - 2008
Law Clerk, Law Student Union Summer at AFL CIO
2007 - 2007
Intern, Catholic Charities of Newark Immigration Legal Services
Associations
American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section
Member, Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee
National Employment Lawyers Association
Member
National Employment Lawyers Association (New York chapter)
Board Member
Federal Bar Council, Employment Litigation Committee
Member
New York City Bar Association
Member
American Association for Justice
Member
Education
2009
Fordham University School of Law
JD - Juris Doctor
2006
University of Pennsylvania
BA - Bachelor of Arts
Speaking Engagements
2021
Maximizing and Limiting Wage and Hour Damages
Maximizing and Limiting Wage and Hour Damages
2020
Webinar
Wage & Hour Collective and Class Actions: Asserting and Challenging Affirmative Defenses
2019
New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section 2019 Annual Meeting
A Road Map: Revising Arbitration Agreements in Light of Epic
2019
5th Annual Employment Law Institute
An Overview of Pay Equity Issues
2019
2019 Spring Seminar
Practical Advice For Locating And Communicating With Potential Plaintiffs And Cultivating New Cases Post-Epic Systems
2019
2019 National Conference on EEO
Suds and Substance: Successful Settlement Negotiations & Mediations: Let’s Share New, Old, and Borrowed Ideas, Expected and the Unexpected Results,
2018
Webinar Panel
Wage & Hour Collective and Class Actions: Asserting and Challenging Affirmative Defenses
2018
Webinar
Life After Epic Systems: How Employers, Employees, and Arbitrators Are Adapting to the World of Class Action Waivers
2018
New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section Annual Meeting
Switching to Offense in Employment Cases
2018
NELA Spring Seminar
Working Productively With the Other Side to Get What you Need
2018
Eighth Annual Year-End Labor & Employment Law Workshop
A View from the Plaintiff's Bar
2018
2018 Annual Convention
Strategies After Decertification
2017
Spring Conference on Representing Employees
Discovery Rules Amendments in Practice
2017
NELA Spring Seminar
The Nuts and Bolts of a Wage & Hour Case from Intake to Resolution
2017
2017 Annual Convention
Proportionality in Discovery
2016
Wage & Hour Conference
Views From the Plaintiffs’ Bar: Adapting Your Defense Strategies to New and Innovative Techniques and Tactics
2016
Rutgers Labor & Employment Society
Arbitration Clauses in Employment Contracts
2016
Labor & Employment Relations Association, New Jersey Chapter
Overtime: To Pay or Not to Pay – That is the Question: Recent Developments in Wage and Hour Law
2016
Fall Conference on Representing Employees
Who’s Exempt
2016
Fair Labor Standards Act Training for Mediators
Exempt Employees/Calculating Damages under State and Federal Law
2015
Protecting Pay, Representing Workers with Wage & Hour Claims
Using Technology In Litigating Wage & Hour Cases
Publications
2017
ABA Labor & Employment Law Section Newsletter, Fall 2017, Volume 44 Number 1
Technology Tools for Labor and Employment Lawyers
2015
Employment Law Blog
Obama Administration Updates Overtime Rules
Languages
English
Spanish