Richard McArdle

About Richard McArdle

Specialties- Defense of Employment Discrimination Class Actions - Defense of…

Experience

1. Attorney

   Seyfarth Shaw LLP

   Oct 2003 — Present

   My primary focus is aggressively defending employers in class and complex employment lawsuits. I have extensive experience in high impact multi-plaintiff discrimination and collective action wage & hour lawsuits. I specialize in designing and implementing preemptive strike litigation strategies. My team recently defeated class certification in a large race pay/promotion case. My team recently won class certification in a breach of contract action involving independent insurance agents. My team also won early dismissal of a class action lawsuit alleging wrongful discharge under Ohio and California law. We won dismissal of all 51 EEOC charges stemming from a workplace strike, and recently won dismissal of all 47 state agency discrimination charges stemming from the mass terminations of employees. My trial experience includes jury and bench trials before federal courts, administrative tribunals, and arbitration panels.

Education

• Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Labor Relations

  1989 — 1993

• Cleveland State University

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Economics

  1984 — 1987

• Case Western Reserve University School of Law

  Juris Doctor, Labor & Employment

  1989 — 1993

Skills

• Retaliation
• Internal Investigations
• Arbitration
• Breach of Contract
• Appeals
• Non-Compete Agreements
• Class Actions
• Mediation
• Legal Writing
• Wage & Hour
• Civil Litigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Trials
• Litigation
• Legal Research
• Employment Discrimination
• Discrimination
• Employment Law