Biography
Jeanine Conley Daves, an experienced trial lawyer and Office Managing Shareholder of Littler Mendelson’s New York office, represents a wide array of companies, both global and domestic, in employment-related disputes and workplace investigations. Daves regularly advises and counsels clients in a variety of industries, particularly the manufacturing, retail, financial services and media and entertainment industries on a wide range of employment issues, including whistleblower and retaliation claims, trade secrets, Title VII anti-discrimination and harassment matters, the Family Medical Leave Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Through her experience as a trial lawyer, Daves is able to efficiently and effectively strategize with her clients to resolve employment disputes through the best possible means for the client by obtaining favorable settlements, dismissal of actions through summary judgment or full defense verdicts at trial.
Along with her successful employment practice, Daves is extremely active in her community and is on the Board of Directors of the Lawyer’s Committee of Civil Rights Under Law and Immediate Past Chair of the Board of the New York Urban League. Daves is a member of the Forum of Executive Women, on the Nominating Committee of the New York City Bar Association and on the Alumni Board of Georgetown University Law Center. She has also been recognized by numerous organizations for her work, and has been named on the Best Lawyers in America list and is a past recipient of the Council of Urban Professionals Catalyst Award, the Metropolitan Black Bar Association’s Private Practitioner of the Year Award, the New York City Bar Association Diversity and Inclusion Award and received the inaugural Chambers Women in Law: “Outstanding Contribution to Furthering the Advancement of Minority Lawyers” Award, an award created for her work.