Lori Thomas
Special Counsel
Lori Thomas is a highly accomplished labor and employment attorney with over 20 years of experience providing employment counseling and advice to a wide range of companies on day-to-day matters including background checks, hiring decisions, employee performance matters, discipline and termination decisions, complaint investigations and responses, accommodation and leave requests and wage and hour issues.
About Lori
Formerly Senior Employment Counsel for a national financial institution with more than 27,000 employees, Lori draws on her in-house counsel experience to help clients address real world, day to day problems efficiently and with an eye toward minimizing risk and reducing cost. Lori understands that sometimes the strictly legal answer is not the full answer, and that the best legal solution is not always the best business solution. Clients rely on Lori to take into consideration legal, business and additional factors, assess risk, and present the range of possibilities so they can make the best informed decision.
Practical and succinct in her approach, Lori is adept at providing clients with timely need-to-know answers that help them effectively respond to the business pressures of their positions. She partners with her clients as a trusted advisor to ensure that they have the factual information and legal analysis needed to make informed decisions within critical time constraints.
Lori is also experienced in guiding employers through large scale workforce restructurings and reductions. She enjoys partnering with Human Resources professionals and business leaders to truly solve problems, finding the best result for the least cost. Her experience spans the full spectrum of employment matters including investigation and response to government agency charges and defense of employment litigation claims under Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, SOX whistleblower, FCRA, state fair employment practice laws, as well as class and collective actions.