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Vanessa Garrido is an employment attorney who represents both large and small employers across a range of industries, including manufacturing, education, and health care. She has litigation experience defending employers against lawsuits arising under Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). She also advises clients on issues related to wage and hour laws, leave and accommodation requests, and employee separations, including restrictive covenants, breach of contract, and theft of trade secrets. She has extensive experience representing clients before federal and state courts, arbitration proceedings, and appellate courts.
In addition, she has represented employers in numerous administrative charges before federal and state administrative agencies, including the Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the United States Department of Labor (DOL), and North Carolina Department of Labor Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Bureau (REDA), against allegations of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation based on age, race, gender, disability, religion, and uniformed service status. Vanessa also defends employers against government investigations into immigration-related hiring practices, and citizenship status and national origin claims filed in the Department of Justice Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO).
Before joining Ogletree Deakins, Vanessa worked at a regional litigation law firm, successfully defending physicians, physician assistants, assisted living facilities, and other healthcare providers in medical malpractice actions and Section 1983 deliberate indifference cases against correctional medical providers. Vanessa also served as a judicial law clerk for the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Vanessa graduated cum laude from Wake Forest University. She received her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law. While in law school, she was a Notes and Comments Editor for the Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy, the Associate Chief Justice of the Moot Court Board, a Teaching Assistant for Legal Writing and Research, and a member of the Pro Bono Honor Society.
