Deepa N. Subramanian

Deepa handles single plaintiff and multi-plaintiff matters for large, multi-state and multi-national companies as well as smaller, single-location companies.  Additionally, Deepa has provided trainings and seminars for clients and non-clients alike—on topics such as social networking and performing proper investigations into employee complaints.  She assists her clients with prevention work and policy drafting with the goal of litigation prevention in mind but will stay with the client until the very end if litigation ensues.

Deepa has delved into the Fair Credit Reporting Act (including exploring preemption and actions against providers of information) and has assisted clients in responding to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development housing discrimination complaints.

While in law school, Deepa clerked for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR) and assisted with the drafting and preparation of briefs and legal research to assist in the trials against those accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity as a result of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Education

• J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School, 2008
• B.A., Emory University, 2005

Admission to Practice

• Georgia
• U.S. District Court, Middle, Northern and Southern Districts of Georgia
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

• Georgia Bar Association (Young Lawyers Division, Community Service Committee, 2012-14 Committee Chair; 2012 Georgia Legal Food Frenzy Chair)
• Atlanta Bar Association
• South Asian Bar Association (Georgia President, 2016-2018; Board Member, 2016-2019)
• Society for Human Resource Management
• Junior League of Atlanta
• Network of Indian Professionals (2010-11 Community Service Chair; 2014 National Conference Programming Chair)
• Vanderbilt Alumni Association
• Emory Alumni Association
• CARE Young Professionals of Atlanta (Chair – Atlanta; Steering Committee Member)
• Georgia Bar Leadership Academy (2016)

• Corporate Labor and Employment Counsel Exclusive – “All I Need to Know About Ethics I Learned in Kindergarten” – Amelia Island – November 13, 2021
• Ogletree Deakins Hospitality Symposium  – “The ABCs of Transitioning Hospitality Management ” – Las Vegas  – May 1, 2019
• AAHOA National Conference – “Avoid the Two Most Common Employment Lawsuits” – San Diego – 2019
• SHRM Legal Summit – “Employment Law Jeopardy” – Atlanta – May 2018
• Wireless Technology Forum, Women in Wireless (panelist) – “Sexual Harassment in the Workplace” – Atlanta – February 2018
• Clear Law Institute Webinar – “Managing within the Law: What Every Manager Should Know about Employment Law” – 2016 – 2017
• Asian American Hotel Owners Association – “Avoiding Your Next Big Lawsuit: An Employment Law Primer” – Long Beach and Nashville – 2015 – 2016
• Choice Hotels Employment Law Workshop – “Employment Law 101” – Phoenix – April 2014
• 21st Annual SHRM-Atlanta Conference – “Just the Facts – Conducting Effective Workplace Investigations” – Atlanta – October 18, 2011
• Client Briefing – “Social Networking in the Workplace” – Atlanta – December 2010
• Client Briefing – “Conducting Effective Workplace Investigations” – Atlanta – November 2010

• October 25, 2021 – Today’s Hotelier – “The elephant in the room”
• June 12, 2020 – Today’s Hotelier – “Top Five COVID-19 FAQs for HR”
• April 6, 2018 – Daily Report – “Summer Interns: Who Are They? Are You Classifying Them Properly?”
• January 31, 2017 – Today’s Hotelier – “Requirement to use new version of Form I-9 began Jan. 22, 2017”
• July 15, 2013 – SHRM.org – “Court Approves Termination of Air Force Worker Who Left Post to Lodge Harassment Complaints”
• November 2009 – Bloomberg Law Reports – “The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009- Lilly’s Legacy is Alive—And Stay Tuned for More to Come”
• October 2008 – Law360 – “Give Them Their Guns! But Take Their Property Rights?”

• October 18, 2021 – Law360 – “Ga. Justice Breaks New Ground With Judicial Maternity Leave”
• September 14, 2018 – SHRM Online – “Can Employers Require Workers to Give Notice When They Quit?”
• June 1, 2018 – Law360 – “Summer Internships: 4 Things Employers Should Consider”
• July 18, 2017 – Hotel Management – “How to handle wage and labor investigations”

• Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Litigation – Labor and Employment (2024-2025)
• 2024 Guiding Star Award from the Executive Women of Goizueta (Emory)
• Authorities Editor, Journal of Transnational Law
• Recipient, Outstanding Service to the Public from the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia
• Rising Star, Georgia Super Lawyers (2016-2018)
• Rising Star, South Asian Bar Association of North America (2017)
• Justice Benham Award for Community Service (March 2019)