Kiosha H. Dickey

Kiosha Dickey is Counsel to the Columbia, SC office of Ogletree Deakins, and is a member of the firm’s Government Contracting and Reporting Practice Group, where she specializes in government reporting including state pay reporting and federal reporting including EEO-1 and VETS-4212 reports. Kiosha’s work on state pay and federal reporting includes:

• Advising clients on reporting obligations;
• Reviewing and assessing data, including examining EEO-1 category designations and reporting structure; and
• Completing filings on behalf of clients.

Kiosha also devotes her practice to developing robust affirmative action programs (AAPs) pursuant to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, as amended, and the Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA). Kiosha’s work in this area includes:

• Developing and preparing written AAPs;
• Conducting training programs for employees and management officials;
• Advising on regulatory compliance (such as outreach and recruitment efforts, policies, accommodations, and recordkeeping);
• Advising on preventative measures for continued compliance.

In addition, Kiosha’s compliance work includes designing and implementing privileged plans for conducting voluntary, proactive statistical analyses of compensation and employee personnel transactions.

Prior to joining Ogletree Deakins, Kiosha spent over seven years defending employment-related lawsuits and administrative complaints of all sizes in state court, federal court, and various state and federal administrative agencies (such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and South Carolina Human Affairs Commission). Kiosha leverages this experience to defend compliance reviews and enforcement proceedings brought by the OFCCP and the United States Department of Labor (USDOL).

Kiosha is a 2004 graduate of Columbia College, where she majored in English and minored in Political Science. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2007. After law school, Kiosha clerked for the Honorable J. Michelle Childs (former Circuit Court Judge, Fifth Judicial Circuit, U.S. District Court Judge, District of South Carolina and current U.S Court of Appeals Judge, D.C. Circuit).