Caroline A. Grech

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Professional Experience

Hanover Insurance Company Southfield, Michigan

Lead Counsel Employment Law – March 2016 – December 2019

Provides legal counsel for the full range of employment issues, including hiring, employee relations, terminations, performance management, compliance, investigations, and government relations. Trial lawyer. Focus of practice is in employment law, civil rights violations, discrimination, and disability, etc., issues. Litigation practice extends to areas including: employment law. My experience includes all phases of pre-litigation, litigation, from pre-trial discovery (written discovery, investigations and inspections, depositions and motion practice) through trial or arbitration and/or resolution through the mediation/facilitation process. Practices in administrative courts from the EEOC, Michigan Department of Civil Rights, Michigan State and the US Federal District Courts in Michigan and Ohio administrative proceedings.

Secrest Wardle Law Firm Farmington Hills, Michigan

Executive Partner (January 2012) (Other levels of partnership beginning 2005 to Present) Associate (November 2001 to January 2005)

Trial lawyer with extensive experience in business and commercial litigation. Focus of practice is in employment law, civil rights violations, discrimination, and disability, etc., issues. Litigation practice extends to areas including: employment law, premises liability, errors and omissions, contract disputes, products liability, environmental, defamation, and commercial litigation. My experience includes all phases of pre-litigation, litigation, from pre-trial discovery (written discovery, investigations and inspections, depositions and motion practice) through trial or arbitration and/or resolution through the mediation/facilitation process. Practices in administrative courts from the EEOC, Michigan Department of Civil Rights, Michigan State and the US Federal District Courts in Michigan.

Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Hampton, Truex and Morley Farmington Hills, Michigan

Legal Assistant/Law Clerk (November 1995 to November 2001)

Responsibilities included assisting with and attending trials and depositions and preparing discovery in cases related to products liability, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, aviation and commercial litigation.

Professional Associations, Presentations and Bar Admissions

●Michigan State Bar (2001)

●U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan (2001/2002)

●Ohio State Bar (2017)

●Member, Michigan Bar Association

●Member, Oakland County Bar Association

●Montclair Who’s Who 2010-2011

●Livonia Chamber of Commerce

●Presenter, Secrest Wardle Premises Liability Seminar, 2005

●Presenter, Secrest Wardle Employment Law Seminar, 2003

PUBLICATIONS

●Blowing the Whistle, Smart Business (March 2010)

●Independent Subcontractor or Employee? On the Job (10/27/08)

●An Adverse Action Occurring More than Nine Months After the Protected Conduct Along will not Satisfy Causation. On the Job (4/30/08)

●Same Sex Harassment is not Excluded Under the Michigan Civil Rights Act (MCRA). On the Job (11/28/07)

●Work Benefits for Pregnant Employees Limited Under Michigan Law. Secrest Wardle Employment Law Bulletin Vol. 1 (2001).

AWARDS

●2014 Women in the law

●2014 Nominee – National Association of Professional Women - Excellence in Advocacy for Women

●Who's Who in North America - 2010

●Who's Who Among American Law Students - 1999

●The Sol Siegel Award - 1998

●Who’s Who Among Universities & Colleges – 1996-1997

Education

Juris Doctor, cum laude, Thomas M. Cooley Law School (2001)

●Law Review, Associate Editor ● Moot Court

●Certificate of Merit, Contracts ● Sol Siegel Award

●Who’s Who 1999 ● Student Magistrate

●Concentration - Litigation

Bachelor of Science, Pre-law, Madonna University with Honors (December 1996)

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